Ocean of Sound (eBook)

Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication

David Toop (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78816-104-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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'

Rezensionen

A masterfully innovative and radical work

This history of ambient music, starting with Debussy, is a minor masterpiece

A scintillating and illuminating read

David Toop is the brilliant voyager of our sonic century, for whom music is a map of our dreams

A heroic endeavour brought off with elegance and charm

Partly a mediation on the development of modern music, but 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, using listening as a tool in a search for a deeper understanding

A ground-breaking history of ambient music

An encyclopaedic work, uncommonly knowledgeable and wide in its scope ... a rare and subversive read

Buy it, read it and let it remix your head

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2018
• Vorwort: Michel Faber
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Amazonas • ambient sound • Aphex Twin • Books About Music • Brian Eno • Brian Wilson • David Lynch • david toop • Debussy • Exotica • Javanese music • Kate Bush • Kraftwerk • Las Vegas • Lee Perry • music writing • Rap Attack 3 • Ryuichi Sakamoto • Sun Ra
• ISBN-10: 1-78816-104-1 / 1788161041
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78816-104-6 / 9781788161046