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

User Review - Anders - Goodreads

Ocean of Sound was written by David Toop, a British music-thinker, who has a history within the British free improvised scene of the 70's. Published in 1995, very current. My impression is he free ... Read full review

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

User Review - Simon - Goodreads

I found this pretty frustrating. I don't mind books which are wide-ranging and unafraid to explore the fringes of their subject matter, but this was pretty much *all* fringe, with less than half of it ... Read full review

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

User Review - Korovsky - Goodreads

In my opinion, it's a boring book about boring music. Read full review

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

User Review - April - Goodreads

Well, I have mixed feelings about this book. There were some neat facts about the history of ambient music and its early appearance in several novels (which I also now want to read). There were also ... Read full review

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

User Review - Goodreads

I listen to a lot of boring music. Really boring. Astonishingly boring. This book helped me understand why. 'Ocean of Sound' is a loose meditation on accidental and intentional ambient sound. It's ...

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

User Review - Joe - Goodreads

I'm learning that there are different ways of writing about music, and in particular, that only nearly writing about music is an important contribution. Toop's tracking an autobiographical path ... Read full review

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

User Review - Goodreads

I flew through this one, and really appreciate this kind of journalism/journaling. Lots of jumping around and connecting seemingly disparate pieces of 20th century music into, well, like a kind of a ...

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

User Review - Jonathan - Goodreads

I learned I need to re-read it, with an eye for taking notes. Whilst I've heard of, if not heard, a fair number of the musicians described within it, there are hops and allusions to others and other aural delights among the excellent dalliances with Eno and his ilk which invite pursuit. Read full review

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

User Review - Goodreads

"The magician is assisted by a boy, to whom (in the dark) he speaks at a distance through a tube formed of the windpipes of cranes, storks, or swans ... A skull is made from the omentum of an ox ...