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Ocean of Sound
David Toop
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Musikgeschichte
Beschreibung
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
An erudite and entertaining chauffeur, Toop shows us a way of listening differently ... <i>Ocean of Sound </i>puts Toop up there with Eno as a theorist of ambient music
A heroic endeavour brought off with elegance and charm
<i>Ocean of Sound </i>brilliantly elaborates [trends in music], like sonic fact for our sci-fi present, a martian chronicle from this planet earth
Buy it, read it and let it remix your head
A scintillating and illuminating read
This history of ambient music, starting with Debussy, is a minor masterpiece
Partly a mediation on the development of modern music, but there'
<i>Ocean of Sound </i>has gained a fervent cult audience ... the best music-related book of the 90s
<i>Ocean of Sound</i>'s parallels aren't music books at all, but rather Italo Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities</i>, William Gibson'
An encyclopaedic work, uncommonly knowledgeable and wide in its scope ... a rare and subversive read
David Toop is the brilliant voyager of our sonic century, for whom music is a map of our dreams
A ground-breaking history of ambient music
Kundenbewertungen
Exotica, Kraftwerk, Lee Perry, music writing, David Lynch, ambient sound, Amazonas, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Rap Attack 3, David Toop, Kate Bush, Las Vegas, Javanese music, Debussy, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brian Wilson, Sun Ra, books about music