[microsound] Favorite Writings on Ambient Music?

[CraqueMat]

very interesting combinatory stuff.

also Kenji Siratori, another experimentalist who uses patterns and 
repetition. try to read Head Code sometime.

David Eng wrote:
> One of my favorite authors, Tan Lin, has developed a general concept of 
> "ambient stylistics" which he employs through his writing.
>  
> http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Lin.html
>  
> "Blip Soak 01" is a kind of ambient long poem/novel.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:45 AM, CraqueMat <craque at craque.net 
> <mailto:craque at craque.net>> wrote:
> 
>     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
>     <mailto:traktorman at gmail.com>>
>      > To: <microsound at microsound.org <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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