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Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory Main


Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory Main

Paperback by Toop, David

Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory

£9.99

ISBN:
9781852427894
Publication Date:
13 Oct 2005
Edition/language:
Main / English
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Pages:
352 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Temporarily unavailable
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory

Description

Digital technology has changed the ways in which music is perceived, stored, distributed, mediated and created. The world of music is now a vast and complex jungle, teeming with CDs, MP3s, concerts, clubs, festivals, conferences, exhibitions, installations, websites, software programmes, scenes, ideas and competing theories. In the eye of the storm stands David Toop, shedding light on the most interesting music now being made ? on laptops, in downtown bars in Tokyo, wherever he finds it. Haunted Weather is part personal memoir and part travel journal, as well as an intensive survey of recent developments in digital technology, sonic theory and musical practice. Along the way Toop probes into the meaning of sound (and silence), offering fascinating insights into how computers can be used for improvisation. His wealth of musical knowledge provides inspiration for anyone interested in music.

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