David Toop

Dream Cargoes

Sounds can be felt and touched and kissed. Sounds can be angry and coarse. They can be brown and angry. Sometimes they can be passive or liquid. I like when they are white, black and grey. And purple. Oh, and violet, too. I love all the colors when it comes to sounds but it does not matter here and now. Sounds can follow you in an empty building at the 37th floor. Now that’s scary. Sounds can make sounds but they can be silent when it comes to following someone. I’d rather say “chasing someone”. What would you do? Sounds can think, love and make sex. By the way they are having sex with YOU all the time. With your head and soul – oh yeah! You can collect sounds but, in fact, SOUNDS collect you. Sounds collect people. They observe and explore us. The make human libraries. They make special effects out of us. They record us. They use us. They get into our dreams and start breeding there – in our minds, thoughts, hearts and souls. They are like a virus but they think we are the virus. Sounds love listening to people. Usually it is noise because people can hardly produce something better. Sounds mark and tag us. And they write articles, essays and even books about us. And they just love turning us down when we are too loud. OR even turning us off. You think you’re listening to some music right now? Oh poor child – you are being listened to by some sounds at the moment! They are enjoying you and you cannot do anything about it. Just deal with it. Let it go. Try to find out more about sounds and their characters. Try reading and listening to David Toop – he knows the sounds. He knows a lot about them. Perhaps he can help.

Some useful links:

https://davidtoopblog.com/

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/david-toop