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Toop David
Ocean Of Sound Ambient Sound And Radical Listening In The Age Of Communication
Ocean Of Sound Ambient Sound And Radical Listening In The Age Of Communication
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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'
Title: Ocean Of Sound Ambient Sound And Radical Listening In The Age Of Communication
Author(s): Toop David
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781788160308
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/30/2018
Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Category: History Of Ideas
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'
Title: Ocean Of Sound Ambient Sound And Radical Listening In The Age Of Communication
Author(s): Toop David
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781788160308
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/30/2018
Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Category: History Of Ideas