DAVID TOOP OCEAN OF SOUND PDF

74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Pro by Dennis DeSantis Capturing Sound by Mark Katz Ocean of Sound by David Toop Recording Secrets for the. 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 . Ocean of Sound begins in at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese David Toop is a highly regarded author, music critic and musician.

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High Fidelity News and Record Review. Djll I was topo to meet, hang out and play some sets with Mr Toop this past September. Retrieved 11 January Really wonderful survey of “ambient,” expanded to include jimi hendrix, rahsaan roland kirk, kate bush, etc. Published February 22nd by Serpent’s Tail first published A strange and interesting journey through the efforts of musicians to create landscapes with sound; to describe only with their instruments a strange mental landscape.

I once told a friend that it was a book about ambient music, and saw hi Even now, 15 years on, this is a book that makes me feel pleasantly like Slund living in the future. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Oceab ethereal culture developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century communications. I don’t want to blame Toop for this, but I can’t help it. Nov 14, Tosh rated it it was amazing.

Lots of jumping around and connecting seemingly disparate pieces of 20th century music into, well, like a kind of a large body of salt-water, except with, like, sound instead of starfish.

Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds

I can’t imagine having a music library books and not having this and Toop’s other book “Exotica” part of the collection. We can notify you when this item is back in stock.

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Mainly it suffers from being a book about music. Mar 29, Chris rated it really liked it Shelves: By using our website you agree to our use of cookies. Some parts are more successful than others; not all meandering is of i “The sound object, represented most dramatically by the romantic symphonies of the nineteenth century, has been fractured and remade into a shifting, open lattice on which new ideas can hang, or through which they can pass and interweave.

May 28, Nick Johnston rated it really liked it. Jan 13, Wim rated it davld was amazing. Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom, David Toop adopts a subtly immersive approach related to the main theme, doing his best in Ocean of Sound to put his thoughts into an ideascape through which the narrative wanders opportunistically, gleaning and garnering the choicest concepts and anecdotes, assembling as it goes it seems something coherent yet dreamlike, not totally graspable by the conscious mind, always leaving places the reader can keep exploring — either in their imaginations, or in their libraries of recordings and record shops.

Some of the best writing on sound I have ever read. More to do with world-building than rock and roll. Lying in a hammock listening to Amazonian frog concerts.

Pretty quirky and observant. LOVELY, moo Really wonderful survey of “ambient,” expanded to include jimi hendrix, rahsaan roland kirk, kate bush, etc. The parts about then-contemporary rave and ambient culture, all rainbow-clothed kids taking ecstasy and dafid about digital psychedelic shamanism, tend to be the most dated bits; but then, it’s now an intriguing time capsule, and they do say that the 90s are coming back.

I was making a point about the immersive quality of 20th century musical experiences.

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Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds by David Toop

Debussy hears a Balinese gamelan orchestra in Paris in About David Toop David Toop is a highly regarded author, music critic and musician. Algunos de ellos me parecieron lo suficientemente interesantes para justificar una experiencia de lectura irregular. As with his Into the Maelstrom: No trivia or quizzes yet. In a contemporary review for The WirePeter Shapiro said he was impressed by how Ocean of Sound highlighted musical similarities among its disparate artists, calling it a manifestation of the book’s discussion and “a remarkable collection of great music”.

It 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

Retrieved 12 January Most of the book is in short vignettes, but there is one extended narrative of Toop’s visit to Amazonas in Venezuela, visiting the Maquiritari and Yanomami peoples, which started to drag. Oct 28, Jonathan rated it really liked it. Toop programmed the Velvet Underground ‘s song ” I Heard Her Call My Name ” oocean that its muted feedback would segue into an underwater recording of bearded seals barking.

This isn’t just a potted history of ambient music, although it covers the subject comprehensively. This was an extremely interesting exercice zound do, first of all because I found that you can learn it.

Jul 24, Vel rated it really liked it.

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