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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Toop, David. Haunted weather. London : Serpent's Tail, 2004 (OCoLC)639644887 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Toop |
ISBN: | 1852428120 9781852428129 1852427892 9781852427894 |
OCLC Number: | 55235677 |
Description: | 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : beginning with a slight breeze -- Spatial interlude -- What is happening to music? -- Space and memory -- Moving through sound -- Sampling the world -- Growth and complexity -- To play -- Machines and bodies -- Silent music, secret noise -- Epilogue : a book at bedtime. |
Other Titles: | Music, silence, and memory |
Responsibility: | David Toop. |
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?Haunted Weather is not just a deeply thoughtful and richly populated survey of modern experimental music, it?s a meditation on hearing itself? Guardian ?One of Britain?s most celebrated writers on music? New Statesman ?Toop is up there with Eno as a theorist of ambient music? Wired ?The most interesting new music these days is being created on laptop computers and in downtown bars in Tokyo? Haunted Weather will look at the way people experience sound in the 21st century? Irish Times ?[Toop] has somehow managed to make the world of experimental music not just understandable but alluring for even the most virginal listener? this book is almost perfect? Independent on Sunday ?With Toop?s enthusiasm and accessible style, the world of the avant-garde needn?t seem like a closed club: Haunted Weather offers the perfect port of entry for the uninitiated? Record Collector ?A joy to read, whatever your musical taste? Buzz ?Toop is still light years ahead of a lot of the competition when it comes to documenting the often turbulent, but always fascinating world of contemporary sound exploration? Leeds Guide ?An unmissable, delightfully personal meander through the current sonic climate by esteemed writer/free musician Toop? Insight ?Toop rhapsodizes and roams widely, connecting his segments with quotes from novels, scientific treatises, personal anecdotes, and reflections on the famous tales of 20th century music? Signal to Noise Read more...


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