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Ocean of Sound (1995) - David Toop

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Ocean of Sound (1995) - David Toop [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]

Its parallels aren't music books at all, but rather Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Michel Leiris's Afrique Phantôme, William Gibson's Neuromancer ... David Toop is our Calvino and our Leiris, our Gibson. Ocean of Sound is as alien as the 20th century, as utterly Now as the 21st. An essential mix. --The Wire magazine.

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David Toop's second book covers a vast expanse of music. His tour-de-force survey describes a dissonant and invigorating clash of music and noise from western classical to Javanese gamelan, from Claude Debussy to Miles Davis to Brian Eno, from disco to techno to ambient. He discusses the changes in our sound world caused by the global reach of radio and recordings, and shows himself a rigorous pluralist, open to all styles and forms, but unafraid to offer robust criticism in any musical sphere. --via Amazon.com

Cantique des Cantiques (1891) - Roinard

In search of total artworks and synaesthesia

Le 11 décembre 1891, le Théâtre d'Art de Paul Fort représentait une pièce de Remy de Gourmont. Cette soirée fut mémorable. On y récita devant des décors d'Ibels et de Maurice Denis trois fragments de Fier-à-bras, Berte au grand pié et Roland; on y donna les premières représentations des Aveugles de Maeterlinck, du Concile féerique de Jules Laforgue, du Cantique des Cantiques de Roinard, avec orchestration musicale, lumineuse et odorante (le programme expliquait la concordance des sons, des voix, des couleurs et des parfums) et enfin de Théodat. --http://www.remydegourmont.org/de_rg/oeuvres/theodat/notice.htm [Sept 2006]

See Ocean of Sound, page 7

See also: Gesamtkunstwerk - synaesthesia

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