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Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (Five Star Fiction S.) Paperback – Illustrated, October 1, 2006
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“Not just a deeply thoughtful and richly populated survey of modern experimental music, it’s a meditation on hearing itself.”—Guardian
Digital technology has changed the ways in which music is perceived, stored, distributed, mediated, and created. In the eye of the storm stands David Toop, shedding light on the most interesting music now being made, wherever he finds it. Haunted Weather is an intensive survey of recent developments in digital technology, sonic theory, and musical practice.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFive Star
- Publication dateOctober 1, 2006
- Dimensions5.1 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
- ISBN-101852427892
- ISBN-13978-1852427894
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- Publisher : Five Star; First Edition (October 1, 2006)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1852427892
- ISBN-13 : 978-1852427894
- Item Weight : 8.5 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,682,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #251 in MIDI & Mixers
- #1,100 in Weather (Books)
- #4,500 in Music History & Criticism (Books)
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The book meditates on, among other things, the boundary between performer and audience, environmental sound and music, improviser and composer, and the role of digital technology in mediating or enhancing these distinctions.
As a journeyman music writer, critic and musician, Toop has spent a lot of his time travelling. This seems to inform his writing style as he is constantly in motion, moving quickly between personal recollections, excerpts from correspondence with diverse musicians, and lengthy quotes from various topically obscure yet philosophically related texts.
These (non-)random stop-overs make the book a slow read, as the reader is left to do a lot of the piecing together. Yet this is part of the pleasure to be found in Toop's writing- like a brilliant but challenging piece of music, the book offers an experience in which the mind of the reader is engaged as more than just a passive receptor of received ideas and emotion.
I read this upon its UK release in July and still find myself dwelling upon some of the ideas raised. Reading it challenged me to use my ears afresh, and to think about what music can be.








