A filmed portrait of David Toop through his records collection (from Pan Sonic to Australian frogs recordings), a conversation about hidden connections between different kinds of music, and about the fine line between music and non music.

OME 10
DVD NTSC-PAL 96'
English + French subtitles
released by SUB ROSA / OME

"In his home in the northern part of London, David Toop plays us records for several days and asks: Does music have any limits? The collective vomiting of spaced out Amazonian shamans, is it music or not? Can we imagine the dirge of the Potu? How did John Levy's recordings radically change our Perception? How did improvised music and electronica redefine some secular frontiers? What influence did solitary rockabilly singer Hasil Adkins have on Finnish electronic group Pan Sonic? Should we present all that on black leader? It took us 90 minutes of film to hear these interrogations and listen to their sound."

Most of our films are based on speech progressing toward exhaustion. You take one more step, and the film is gone. The plan breaks down, there is not enough light anymore, and nothing left to say. Maybe today, people are gathering their thoughts and everything gets said in under an hour. But what happens if we stay for a week and we start talking ?
Toop's record collection is endless, but after a while, the man gets tired, as if envisioning himself commenting these tens of thousands of records, one by one. could that be done ? Maybe, if we had two years. I have mentioned exhaustion, but isn't it more like a case of weariness ? it is not solely about fatigue. at one point, you switch from the desire to do it to the desire to see it stop. A type of despondency, of hidden sadness.
An impression that rest will not alleviate.
OME team
DAVID TOOP

Born near London in 1949, David Toop is a musician, writer and sound curator. He has published three book.......
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A filmed portrait of David Toop through his records collection (from Pan Sonic to Australian frogs recordings), a conversation about hidden connections between different kinds of music, and about the fine line between music and non music.

OME 10
DVD NTSC-PAL 96'
English + French subtitles
released by SUB ROSA / OME

"In his home in the northern part of London, David Toop plays us records for several days and asks: Does music have any limits? The collective vomiting of spaced out Amazonian shamans, is it music or not? Can we imagine the dirge of the Potu? How did John Levy's recordings radically change our Perception? How did improvised music and electronica redefine some secular frontiers? What influence did solitary rockabilly singer Hasil Adkins have on Finnish electronic group Pan Sonic? Should we present all that on black leader? It took us 90 minutes of film to hear these interrogations and listen to their sound."

Most of our films are based on speech progressing toward exhaustion. You take one more step, and the film is gone. The plan breaks down, there is not enough light anymore, and nothing left to say. Maybe today, people are gathering their thoughts and everything gets said in under an hour. But what happens if we stay for a week and we start talking ?
Toop's record collection is endless, but after a while, the man gets tired, as if envisioning himself commenting these tens of thousands of records, one by one. could that be done ? Maybe, if we had two years. I have mentioned exhaustion, but isn't it more like a case of weariness ? it is not solely about fatigue. at one point, you switch from the desire to do it to the desire to see it stop. A type of despondency, of hidden sadness.
An impression that rest will not alleviate.
OME team
DAVID TOOP

Born near London in 1949, David Toop is a musician, writer and sound curator. He has published three book.......
more