Moreskinsound is a sound and movement collaboration between Ania Psenitsnikova and David Toop. Their work together encompasses public performance (London, Prague, Sydney, Tartu, etc), photography, video, texts, and documented non-public events described as inactions (in Cornwall, Queensland, Norway, Thailand, and Estonia). All of these activities culminate in workshops that explore improvisation, listening, movement, objects, materials, and the nature of space.
David Toop; musician, composer, writer, curator. Studied art and design, worked as Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication, currently Emeritus Professor. For more than fifty-five years he has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials.
Ania Psenitsnikova; visual and performance artist and curator. Born in Estonia, studied philology at St Petersburg Institute of Humanitarian Studies at Herzen University; independent studies of vocal music, piano (with Natalia Uchitel, Olga Skorbyachenskaya and Michail Tsigutkin), violin and guitar; foundation in art at Fareham College and a BA in Performance and Visual Art (dance pathway) at the University of Brighton (2008-2011). She has traveled and learned butoh dance with Masaki Iwana, Daisuke Yoshimoto, Moeno Wakamatsu and Flavia Ghisalberti.
Giuseppe Mistretta is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. He works with synthesis and field recordings to create atmospheres for others to inhabit. Mistretta is interested in what can unfold in the present moment and how different variables can help shape it.
Mistretta is working towards a sound release and a new book entitled The Organic Machine. The book is an account of his developing dialogue with a modular synthesiser and other sonic experiences.