[microsound] Favorite Writings on Ambient Music?

[CraqueMat]

great great book.

dunno if i'd consider it "ambient writing" but it definitely garners 
strong feelings of space, which maybe that's what "ambient" is all about.

Michael Palace wrote:
> I found House of Leaves very ambient for me.  I was given it by a friend and 
> read while my wife was away for two months.  Alone in a house in New 
> Hampshire during the winter can be very interesting.  It inspired me to work 
> on a soundtrack oriented concept album.  I hope this is not considered 
> self-promotional here (as I understand the rules of the group), but here is 
> the link to the work that House of Leaves inspired.  It is a free download.
> 
> http://www.darkwinter.com/dw047.html
> 
> Quote from the description " Around the same time I read House of Leaves by 
> Mark Z. Danielewski. I'd like to say that that excellent book influenced 
> this project. It did and it did not. I felt that the soundtrack to such a 
> house in the book would be single sounds, placed in an audio field of dead 
> silence, with not even reverberations of the space that one was in."
> 
> Mike Palace
> horchata
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tkrakowiak" <traktorman at gmail.com>
> To: <microsound at microsound.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 5:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [microsound] Favorite Writings on Ambient Music?
> 
> 
>> hello
>> some of Cortazar short stories are almost standstill. also Bruno
>> Schulz's 'Cinnamon Shops' but i guess that is a matter of how you
>> describe ambient
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/2/25 Charles Turner <vze26m98 at optonline.net>:
>>> Hey-
>>>
>>> I searched through the old list archives, and had an enjoyable time
>>> reading a long thread about writings that were "ambient" in character,
>>> but there were almost no references to folks' favorite writings on the
>>> genre.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Charles
>>>
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