Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds by David Toop (Book+2CD)

English | Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1995 | PDF+FLAC | 320 pages | 9+727 MB
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.

Sun Ra, Brian Eno, Lee Perry, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian Wilson are interviewed in this extraordinary work of sonic history that 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.
It goes on to comprehensively map a whole century of ambient music and its legacy.