[microsound] Favorite Writings on Ambient Music?

[Michael Palace]

Cyberpositive by Orphan Drift.  Cool.  I knew that group was doing video 
work.  I have some early video work Orphan drift did for Ocosi and Scorn, 
around the same time I collaborating with Ocosi.  I'd love to visually see 
what Cyberpositive is like.

Mike Palace
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "guiver ben" <benreviug at yahoo.com>
To: <microsound at microsound.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] Favorite Writings on Ambient Music?


>
> well i kindof liked Tony Marcus' chapter in modulations (ed Peter 
> Shapiro), also Simon Reynolds Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock. Serpent's 
> Tail, August 1990, ISBN 1-85242-199-1 and also Kodwo Eshun's More 
> Brilliant Than...Pauline Oliveros chapter in Audio Culture ("...our ears 
> felt like canyons..."), have also been looking at Haunted Weather by David 
> Toop.
>
> trying to read Cyberpositive by Orphan Drift, and havent really managed to 
> take to Attali's Noise.
>
> its a pity that Kodwo isnt still writing about music, and i'd like to hear 
> more from Robin Rimbaud (he had a chapter in the most recent book about 
> sampling compiled by Dj Spooky).
>
> i suppose that its not necessarily concrete texts about sound that can be 
> illuminating though, although i'm struggling to think about a text that 
> has engaged or influenced me into sound but from a non-specific 
> standpoint/non-literal (ie not necesarily about music or sound) right now, 
> i think its often the way people talk about sound thats helps animate it, 
> or helps me get into it, for example Robin talking once about how his 
> sound installation at the Salles de Departes in France was like "someone 
> theres a window in the room open and  someone's learning to play the piano 
> for the first time, about a mile away" ie in the sense that the sound was 
> only just audible in the room
>
>
>
>
> --- On Thu, 2/26/09, John Hopkins <jhopkins at tech-no-mad.net> wrote:
>
>> From: John Hopkins <jhopkins at tech-no-mad.net>
>> Subject: Re: [microsound] Favorite Writings on Ambient Music?
>> To: microsound at microsound.org
>> Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 7:06 PM
>> greets!  (after a day of travel and doing field
>> recordings....)...  BTW,
>> I'm not sure if I had announced an open participatory
>> project here that
>> a good friend is running -- aporee maps...  for locative
>> sound work.
>> http://aporee.org/maps/  I'd be interested in feedback.
>>  I am
>> participating under the name "neoscenes" if you
>> do a search in the
>> database...
>>
>> but on the writings on ambient front, I would recommend a
>> writer who I
>> discovered 25 years ago, the recent French Nobel winner,
>> Jean Marie
>> Gustave LeClezio.  Hi fiction works (mostly out of print in
>> English
>> translation, but a few newer ones are around since the
>> Nobel award,
>> surely older ones will be reissued soon) -- given the term
>> ambient, his
>> writing is a deep exploration of the ambience of what would
>> be to most a
>> non-descript place.  hard to describe, but his works are
>> atmospheric in
>> a microscopic way....
>>
>> The Book of Flights is my favorite (being a nomad), but The
>> Giants, and
>> The Flood are also excellent ...
>>
>> jh
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