More Skin Sound (David Toop & Ania Psenitsnikova), Luke Fowler & Nakul Krishnamurthy Duo, Giuseppe Mistretta

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. 

This encompasses improvised music performance (engaging with natural processes and materials including bone conduction, resonators and buzzers, strings, paper, magnetism, archival memories, flutes, electricity and other materials), writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound art installations and opera. It includes nine acclaimed books, including Rap Attack (1984), Ocean of Sound (1995), Sinister Resonance (2010), Into the Maelstrom (2016), Flutter Echo, a memoir first published in Japan in 2017 (2019) and Inflamed Invisible: Writing On Art and Sound 1976-2018 (2019). Briefly a member of David Cunningham’s pop project The Flying Lizards in 1979, he has released fourteen solo albums, from New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments on Brian Eno’s Obscure label (1975) and Sound Body on David Sylvian’s Samadhisound label (2006) to Entities Inertias Faint Beings (2016) and Apparition Paintings (2021) on ROOM40.

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.

She has studied the teaching of contortion with Irina Vaschenko, studied ballet independently (with Ludmila Karpenko and Iryna Seletskaya), worked as a qualified aerial dance teacher and artist since 2011 and bodywork therapist since 2015. Between 2015 to the present she has collaborated with the post-activist and anti-militarist Rodina Group of artists, co-curating seven exhibitions in four countries, exploring the censorship phenomenon and participating in performances and events, include the Party of the Dead project, a satire of current Russian politics, and the Grow and Decay ecological festival in Estonia.
Nakul Krishnamurthy is an Indian artist who works with Indian Classical music and explores new ways of conceiving it at the intersection of Western Classical, experimental and electronic music traditions. Using procedural approaches to composition and electronic music making techniques, his work experiments with and attempts to reconfigure the structural foundations of Carnatic and Hindustani music to generate new interpretations of the artforms.
British artist, filmmaker and musician Luke Fowler (1978) has developed a practice that is, at the same time, singular and collaborative, poetic and political, structural and documentary, archival and deeply human. With an emphasis on communities of people, outward thinkers and the history of the left, his 16mm films tell the stories of alternative movements in Britain, from psychiatry to photography to music to education.  Whilst some of his early films dealt with music and musicians as subjects, in later works sound itself becomes a key concern.

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.

https://soundcloud.com/seppe-mistretta