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Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener Hardcover – July 1, 2010

by David Toop (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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`No work on the subject of listening is as erudite, thoughtful, wide-ranging, and readable as Sinister Resonance. Toop's previous books revealed the astonishing breadth of his musical tastes and the immensity of his sonic world. Here he extends his purview to literature and art, treating paintings, sculptures, novels, and poems as objects with a spectral sonic life discernible through sensitive looking and listening. The result is a profound and thrilling meditation on the senses and their interrelationships.' Christoph Cox

`It's as if contemporary culture has developed a case of hyperacusis in the form of Toop's "perpetual vigilance" as he haunts the permeable boundary between the extremities of sound and the fullness of silence. Ruminating on its unmatched power of evocation, Toop manifests sound after transient sound from the pages of this "silent art", increasing awareness of our own auditory acuity as the walls between inner and outer space collapse around our ears.' David Sylvian

`Toop hauls out his 233-note Jaws-Harp and plays us ancient Siren's songs, Bloom's farts, Munch's round-the-world scream, the surfaces of Ad Reinhardt's paintings, Virginia Woolf's brooding interiors, Lynch's scary foley designs over an Akio Suzuki inaudible installation, in a seamless, erudite and virtuoso literary performance.' Alvin Curran

`It's all about a sound that no one could hear except those who might listen. And for ears that [can] dream.' Brothers Quay

`David Toop is the brilliant voyager of our sonic century, for whom music is a map of our dreams. With Sinister Resonance he takes us yet farther and deeper into coordinates uncharted but remembered all the same, beyond the horizon where the listener meets the listened.' Steve Erickson
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  1. Print length
    256 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Continuum Intl Pub Group
  4. Publication date
    July 1, 2010
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1441149724
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1441149725
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  • DLW
    4.0 out of 5 stars It took me awhile to really get on the path he sets out here but once I was it was great intellectual adventure
    Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2017
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    While not as immediately affecting as his earlier music histories, this book looks into the visual world and Toop's range of knowledge is astounding. It took me awhile to really get on the path he sets out here but once I was it was great intellectual adventure. This not another music book per se but the musings of one of music's most interesting thinkers about connections between music and sound and art and more. It won't lead you to new undiscovered musics but it will awaken you to different ways of thinking about sound and silence.
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  • RShop*
    2.0 out of 5 stars Didn't resonate with me
    Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2013
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    Not what my spouse was looking for who is fan of David Toop's prior work. More of a basic art review than his other books which contain outstanding musical history analysis.
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