TY - BOOK ID - 137117764 TI - Ocean of sound : ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication AU - Toop, David AU - Faber, Michel PY - 2018 SN - 9781788160308 1788160304 PB - London Serpent's Tail DB - UniCat KW - Music KW - New Age music KW - Environmental music KW - History and criticism KW - Philosophy and aesthetics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137117764 AB - David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an exhilarating, path-breaking account of ambient sound. ER -