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Nine years after he published the epochal Ocean of Sound, David Toop returned to further explore ideas about “immersive music”—ambient, minimalism, improvisation, and electronica—in Haunted Weather. But if Ocean of Sound was Toop’s “pop” book, crafting a history of sound-as-an-environment that could include the Beach Boys along with La Monte Young, Haunted Weather leaves the familiar world of songs and stars far, far behind.

Prompted by the author’s work as both musician and critic, the book is the result of both his participation in and observation of the further reaches of experimental music around the turn of the millennium. And if that sounds forbidding, just know that it’s the most readable journey possible through the tangled history of some of the most difficult modern sounds. Toop traces a radical shift toward music that’s barely there (compositions that make use of mostly silence, the density of free jazz giving way to extremely delicate improvisation), and music that seems to construct itself as much as it’s guided by musicians (artists who use software to let sounds seemingly mutate on their own). As music, it’s the definition of not-for-everyone, some of it quite beautiful and intriguing, some of it more interesting to read about than listen to, but Toop has a unique ability to write evocative descriptions about this sort of music without lapsing into either purple poetry or musician’s jargon. I can still recall lines from his daydream revolving around a Patrick Pulsinger piece, or his sensitive and nuanced description of how Morton Feldman’s ultra-minimal music works, without pulling the book off the shelf. And as a working musician, his insider’s knowledge gives you a realistic sense of how this seemingly formless music actually gets made. –Jess Harvell
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i will do it tommorow,panam something different that you wanted
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1. 秋山徹次 [Tetuzi Akiyama], Toshimaru Nakamura, Taku Sugimoto, Mark Wastell - Foldings
2 Ballads - Derek Bailey
3 Pieces for Guitar - Derek Bailey
4 Solo Guitar Volume 1 - Derek Bailey
5 Playing - John Stevens & Derek Bailey
6 Last Orders - Adam Bohman
7 The Sinking of the Titanic; Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet - Gavin Bryars
8 Invisible Ear - John Butcher
9 The Great Learning - The Scratch Orchestra / Cornelius Cardew
10 Deposition Yokohama - Christophe Charles
11 Le Corpsbis & Co - Henri Chopin
12 Tears - Cosmos
13 Your Favourite London Sounds - Peter Cusack
14 A Host, of Golden Daffodils - Peter Cusack & Nicolas Collins
15 R&D2 - Disinformation
16 The Art of Buzzing (Excuse the Delay Vol. 1) - Werner Durand
17 Dach - Durrant / Lehn / Malfatti
18 Zounds! What Sounds! / Music From a Surplus Store - Dean Elliott / Jack Fascinato
19 Rainforest Soundwalks - Steven Feld
20 All Piano - John Tilbury
21 Feldman / Brown - David Soyer / David Tudor / Matthew Raimondi
22 Endless Summer - Fennesz
23 Plays - Fennesz
24 Patterns of Plants - 藤枝守 [Mamoru Fujieda]
25 Battimenti - Pietro Grossi
26 Musicautomatica - Pietro Grossi
27 Crossing the River (Night Music) - Bernhard Günter
28 Spectacular! - Chico Hamilton Quintet
29 Text-Sound Gems & Trinkets - Sten Hanson
30 Frogs 4 - Felix Hess
31 Matrix - Ryoji Ikeda
32 Atem; Morceau de concours - Edward H. Tarr
33 Stoke - Philip Jeck
34 Avant Slant (One Plus 1=II?) [Trio] - John Benson Brooks
35 (Halb) Schwarz - Rolf Julius
36 Soba Field - Julius
37 Tektra - Roland Kayn
38 Dreaming of a Major Third - Christina Kubisch
39 The Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, Alvin Lucier, Rees Archibald, Ryuko Mizutani, Charlie Looker, Matthew Welch, Shawn Onsgard - Vespers and Other Early Works
40 Sine Wave Solo - Sachiko M
41 Hypernatural #2 - Yoshio Machida
42 Footsteps - Christian Marclay
43 Record Without a Cover - Christian Marclay
44 CD Ann - Kaffe Matthews
45 A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure - Matmos
46 The Hands of Caravaggio - MIMEO / John Tilbury
47 Jazzical Moods - Charles Mingus & John LaPorta
48 Empty Garden (Inside.out) - Noto
49 Plexure - John Oswald
50 Plunderphonic - John Oswald
51 94 Diskont - Oval
52 Dok - Oval
53 A - Pan Sonic
54 Dark Rags - Evan Parker & Keith Rowe
55 Corner to Corner - Evan Parker & John Stevens
56 108: Walking Through Tokyo at the Turn of the Century - Sarah Peebles
57 L-Fields - Michael Prime
58 Pachinko in Your Head (Non-Linear Music) - Blue Rahn Studio
59 Music for the Gift - Terry Riley
60 You're Nogood - Terry Riley
61 Splint (The Soul of Wood) - Steve Roden / In Be Tween Noise
62 Harsh, Guitar Solo - Keith Rowe
63 Weather Sky - Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura
64 Weekend - Walter Ruttmann
65 Kenotaphion - Jonty Semper
66 Oto no Hajimari wo Motomete - Hiroshi Siotani
67 The Singing Dogs - The Singing Dogs
68 The Last LP: Unique Last Recordings of the Music of Ancient Cultures - Michael Snow
69 Face to Face - Spontaneous Music Ensemble
70 Karyōbin - The Spontaneous Music Ensemble
71 Low Profile (1977-1988) - Spontaneous Music Ensemble
72 Ereignislose Musik - Loose Music - Maxixe / Oskar Aichinger / Radu Malfatti / Renate Burtscher / Sainkho Namtchylak / Eva Hosemann / Burkhard Stangl / Gunter Schneider / Maura St. Mary / Judy Farmer
73 Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger; Klavierstück X - Christoph Caskel / Max Neuhaus / Frederic Rzewski
74 Mikrophonie I & II; Telemusik - WDR Rundfunkchor Köln / Studiochor für Neue Musik Köln / Herbert Schernus / Aloys Kontarsky / Johannes Fritsch / Karlheinz Stockhausen / Hugh Davies / Jaap Spek / Harald Bojé / Alfred Alings
75 Myshkin Musicu for Electric Guitar - Taku Sugimoto
76 Opposite - Taku Sugimoto
77 Odds and Ends - Akio Suzuki
78 Coral Island; Water Music; Vocalism Ai - Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra / Hiroshi Wakasugi / Toru Takemitsu
79 武満徹映画音楽 [Film Music by Toru Takemitsu] - 武満徹 [Toru Takemitsu]
80 In an Autumn Garden - Music Department, Imperial Household / Kinshi Tsuruta / Katsuya Yokoyama
81 Means From an End - Terre Thaemlitz
82 Ticklish - Ticklish
83 Pieces of Air - Toshiya Tsunoda
84 An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001 - Various Artists
85 Early Modulations Vintage Volts - Various Artists
86 Tellus #24 - FluxTellus - Various Artists
87 OHM+: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music: 1948-1980 - Various Artists
88 WrK Compilation - Various Artists
89 Bright and Dusty Things - Stephen Vitiello
90 Operations of Spirit Communication - CM von Hausswolff
91 Outside the Circle of Fire - Chris Watson
92 Stepping Into the Dark - Chris Watson
93 Weather Report - Chris Watson
94 Cathode - Otomo Yoshihide
95 Monogatari: Amino Argot - Otomo Yoshihide / Carl Stone
96 Journal de Tokyo - Yuko Nexus6
97 John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94 - 巻上公一 [Koichi Makigami]
98 Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour - John Zorn
99 Songs From the Hermetic Theater - John Zorn

Spotify is a bit thin on the ground for some of these!
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hectorthebat wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 9:56 am thankss :romance-kisscheek:
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INFO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Toop

HE HAS OTHER BOOKS TOO

Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop (1984)
Rap Attack 2: African Rap To Global Hip Hop (1992)
Rap Attack 3 (2000)
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (1995) [ ! WE HAVE THIS ! ]
Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World (1999)
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory (2004) [ ! AND THIS! ]
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (2010)
Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom, Before 1970 (2016) [ ! AND THIS ! ]
Flutter Echo (2017) in Japanese
Flutter Echo (2019) in English
Inflamed Invisible: Collected Writings on Art and Sound 1976-2018 (2019)
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I coudn't find any other book from him
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