OCEAN OF SOUND

OCEAN OF SOUND

Introduction: Spilios Lampropoulos

A ground-breaking book that changed the perception of modern music

 The book perceives sound as ocean and ocean as countless sounds;. He invites to swim those who find this Earth boring. – Avopolis.gr

THE Ocean of sound it is one landmark book for music literature. He begins to unravel his tangle, starting from Paris in 1889, when o Claude Debussy he first heard the pentatonic scales of traditional Indonesian music.

OCEAN OF SOUND

 A representative "history" of 20th century music. Through interviews with influential musicians such as Brian Eno, The Lee Perry and Sun Ra, The Bill Laswell, The Ryuichi Sakamoto and the Kraftwerk (of artists who differ both from each other and from the "mainstream" stream) o David Toop weaves a fascinating web of narratives around the "organized" sound and soundtrack of a Fourth World that stretches from Tokyo to Marrakesh, from London to the Amazon, and from Java to New York. A journey through the beginnings of electronic sound, from the end of the last century and Claude Debussy, to the explosion of techno, just before the new millennium. Ambient, house, psychedelia and every musical trend that influenced the evolution of the human way of thinking, through the words of the creators themselves.

THE David Toop is one of the most important music theorists of the 20th century. He is a musician, writer, journalist and professor of sound improvisation at the London College of Communication. He has worked as a music editor for Face, Wired andTimes.

For the book OCEAN OF SOUND by avopolis.gr

"If we put a sign on the door of every studio that said. "This door is a musical instrument", we would have a completely different approach to recording. Ambient should incorporate many different listening levels, without imposing a specific one. It must go unnoticed, as interesting as it is». The above placement by grandmaster Brian Eno about ambient as a way of perceiving music – and not as a pure genre, as such – runs from cover to cover in the 300 pages written by the English musician and writer David Toop in 1995.

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