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Ocean of Sound
Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
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Book Details
- ISBN 9781852427436
- 22 February 2001
- 256pp
- Paperback
- 129 x 198mm
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Synopsis
Sun Ra, Brian Eno, Lee Perry, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian Wilson are interviewed in this extraordinary work of sonic history that travels from the rainforests of amazonas to virtual Las Vegas, from David Lynch’s dream house, high in the Hollywood hills to the megalopolis of Tokyo.
Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. It goes on to comprehensively map a whole century of ambient music and its legacy.
Reviews
‘Puts Toop up there with Eno as a theorist of ambient music’ Wired
‘It is the capacity of sound to thrill the senses that comes across most clearly in these pages’ Independent on Sunday