Ocean of Sound

Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. A culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century communications. David Toop traces the evolution of this culture, through Erik Satie to the Velvet Undergound; Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix.

David Toop, who lives in London, is a writer, musician and recording artist. His other books are Rap Attack 3 and Exotica.

• Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
• Music Theory for Computer Musicians
• Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
• Sinister Resonance
• Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970
• Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound
• Ocean of Sound: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication
• Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (Five Star Fiction S.)
• K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
• Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World