Toop D. Ocean of sound: Aether talk, Ambient Sound And Imaginary Worlds

London: Serpent's Tail, 2001. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1852427434; ISBN13: 978-1852427436.Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. A culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century communications. David Toop traces the evolution of this culture, through Erik Satie to the Velvet Undergound; Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix.prologue: fragments and mantrasmemory
if you find earth boring
scanning: aether talk
burial rites
content in a void
altered states i: landscape
altered states II: fourth world
altered states iii : crystal world
altered states iv*. machine
altered states v: lucid dreaming
altered states vi: nature
theatre of sound
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