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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Publisher: Profile Books LtdISBN: 9781788160308Number of pages: 320Weight: 268 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mmEdition: Main - Classic Edition
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This history of ambient music,starting with Debussy,is a minor masterpieceAn encyclopaedic work,uncommonly knowledgeable and wide in its scope...a rare and subversive readA masterfully innovative and radical workA scintillating and illuminating readBuy it,read it and let it remix your headA ground-breaking history of ambient musicPartly 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 understandingAn erudite and entertaining chauffeur,Toop shows us a way of listening differently...Ocean of Sound puts Toop up there with Eno as a theorist of ambient musicOcean of Sound's parallels aren't music books at all,but rather Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities,William Gibson's Neuromancer...Ocean of Sound is as alien as the 20th century,as utterly now as the 21stOcean of Sound has gained a fervent cult audience...the best music-related book of the 90sOcean of Sound brilliantly elaborates (trends in music),like sonic fact for our sci-fi present,a martian chronicle from this planet earthA heroic endeavour brought off with elegance and charmDavid Toop is the brilliant voyager of our sonic century,for whom music is a map of our dreams
David Toop
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Michel Faber is an award-winning novelist and short fiction writer based in Scotland,best known for the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White.
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