Sculptor, installation artist and seasoned improvisor Rie Nakajima has been friends with David Toop for many years, and the two became accustomed to their regular chats – on art, music and food – to the point that when face-to-face meetings were prohibited for a spell, the two transferred their musings to email. They noticed that the style of their back and forth had changed, forcing a level of creative thought that, in Toop’s own words, wasn’t “normal or natural”, and when they reconvened in the Spring of 2022, they realized their reality had shifted. Of course, if you’ve been following either artist you may have already stumbled across last year’s excellent ‘Music for Voilà’, and this set examines their interaction with mic-ed sculptures and small instruments…