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Ocean of sound : ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication
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Title
Ocean of sound : ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication / David Toop ; with a new foreword by Michel Faber.
ISBN
9781788160308
1788160304
9781788161046
Publication
London : Serpent's Tail, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©1995
Physical Description
304 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary
David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an exhilarating, path-breaking account of ambient sound.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2019
Series
Serpent's Tail classics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286), discography (pages 287-295) and index.
Contents
Prologue : Fragments and mantras
1. Memory
2. If you find earth boring
3. Scanning : aether talk
4. Burial rites
5. Content in a void
6. Altered states i : landscapes
7. Altered states ii : fourth world
8. Altered states iii : crystal world
9. Altered states iv : machine
10. Altered states v : lucid dreaming
11 Altered states vi : nature
12. Theatre of sound
13. Ocean of sound.
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