Review: Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
User Review - Anders - GoodreadsOcean 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 - GoodreadsI 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 - Ryan Dohm - GoodreadsBeen many years since I've read this, but I forgot how wonderful Toop's prose is. So Impressionistic yet futuristic and otherworldly. Reminiscent of William Gibson's not-quite-present/near-future style. Read full review
Review: Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
User Review - Individualfrog - GoodreadsEven now, 15 years on, this is a book that makes me feel pleasantly like I'm living in the future. It's sort of like a William Gibson novel, a constant stream of semi-bewildering cross-cultural ... Read full review
Review: Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
User Review - Korovsky - GoodreadsIn 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 - GoodreadsWell, 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 - john b - GoodreadsI took notes reading this (which I normally NEVER do). I learned a lot from this and it definitely expanded my repertoire. A plus to any library. Read full review
Review: Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
User Review - Chris - GoodreadsI 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 ... Read full review
Review: Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
User Review - Joe - GoodreadsI'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 - Adam Patterson - GoodreadsI 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 ... Read full review
