Informationen zum Autor David Toop is a highly regarded author, music critic and musician. Since 1995 he has released three solo albums, curated five compilation albums (including the soundtrack to Ocean of Sound), and the sound and music exhibition at the Hayward Gallery - 'Sonic Boom'. His music journalism appears in The Wire, Book Forum, The Times and The Face. Klappentext 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' Zusammenfassung The classic account of ambient music, with a new foreword by Michel Faber. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Prologue: Fragments and mantras 1. Memory 2. If you find earth boring 3. Scanning: aether talk 4. Burial rights 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 Bibliography Discography Index

Vorwort
The classic account of ambient music, with a new foreword by Michel Faber

Autorentext
David Toop is a highly regarded author, music critic and musician. Since 1995 he has released three solo albums, curated five compilation albums (including the soundtrack to Ocean of Sound), and the sound and music exhibition at the Hayward Gallery - 'Sonic Boom'. His music journalism appears in The Wire, Book Forum, The Times and The Face.

Klappentext

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'

Zusammenfassung
The classic account of ambient music, with a new foreword by Michel Faber.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Prologue: Fragments and mantras

1. Memory

2. If you find earth boring

3. Scanning: aether talk

4. Burial rights

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

Bibliography

Discography

Index