Ocean of Sound Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication
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David Toop is an English musician, author and professor of audio culture and improvisation at the London College of Communication. He was a member of the Flying Lizards and a contributor to the British magazine The Face. He is a regular contributor to The Wire, has recorded Yanomami shamanism in Amazonas, appeared on Top of the Pops, exhibited sound installations in Tokyo, Beijing and London's National Gallery, and performed with artists ranging from John Zorn, Evan Parker, Bob Cobbing and Ivor Cutler to Akio Suzuki, Elaine Mitchener, Lore Lixenberg and Max Eastley. He has published five books, including Ocean of Sound, and released eight solo albums.This history of ambient music, starting with Debussy, is a minor masterpiece
Observer '50 greatest music books ever'
An encyclopaedic work, uncommonly knowledgeable and wide in its scope ... a rare and subversive read
DJ Magazine
A masterfully innovative and radical work
Melody Maker
A scintillating and illuminating read
Mojo
Buy it, read it and let it remix your head
i-D
A ground-breaking history of ambient music
Independent
Partly a mediation on the development of modern music, but there's no single term that is adequate to describe what Toop has accomplished here ... mixing interviews, criticism, history, and memory, Toop moves seamlessly between sounds, styles, genres, and eras, using listening as a tool in a search for a deeper understanding
Pitchfork's '60 Favourite Music Books'
An erudite and entertaining chauffeur, Toop shows us a way of listening differently ... Ocean of Sound puts Toop up there with Eno as a theorist of ambient music
Wired
Ocean of Sound's parallels aren't music books at all, but rather Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, William Gibson's Neuromancer ... Ocean of Sound is as alien as the 20th century, as utterly now as the 21st
Wire
Ocean of Sound has gained a fervent cult audience ... the best music-related book of the 90s
Chicago Reader
Ocean of Sound brilliantly elaborates [trends in music], like sonic fact for our sci-fi present, a martian chronicle from this planet earth
Face
A heroic endeavour brought off with elegance and charm
NME
David Toop is the brilliant voyager of our sonic century, for whom music is a map of our dreams
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