Haunted Weather : Music, Silence, and Memory

by Toop, David

• ISBN13: 9781852428129
• ISBN10: 1852428120
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

introduction: beginning with a slight breeze	1	(5)
Spatial interlude	6	(1)
1 What is happening to music?	7	(33)
2 Space and memory	40	(70)
3 Moving through sound	110	(41)
4 Sampling the world	151	(26)
5 Growth and complexity	177	(25)
6 To play	202	(15)
7 Machines and bodies	217	(28)
8 Silent music, secret noise	245	(13)
9 Epilogue: a book at bedtime	258	(3)
afterword	261	(1)
bibliography	262	(6)
discography	268	(6)
index	274