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Ocean Of Sound Ambient Sound And Radical Listening In The Age Of Communication

By David Toop

Book information

Publisher
Profile
Year
2018
ISBN
9781788160308, 9781788161046
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
640 kB (655425 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2024-11-26 15:22:49

Description

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. 'A meditation on the development of modern music, there's no single term that is adequate to describe what Toop has accomplished here ... mixing interviews, criticism, history, and memory, Toop moves seamlessly between sounds, styles, genres, and eras' Pitchfork's '60 Favourite Music Books'

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