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Re: [microsound] New David Toop?



Oivind

Not heard it myself*, but being a fan of the book I had a quick scout around
and there are real audio files at:

http://www.atrecordings.com/frontsite/LabelArtistAlbum/Album.asp?album=alb_t
hfloo00

....don't actually have Real Player installed at the moment so*

Cheers

Paul

From: Øivind Idsø <ezueled@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



> Not sure if it´s microsound or not (I´m guessing it isn´t ;), but has
> anyone heard David Toop´s latest, "37th Floor at Sunset" (Sub Rosa)?
>
> The descriptons sound very intrigueing -- in Toop´s own words: "In his
> novel, High
> Rise, J.G. Ballard described the subtle relationship of an apartment
> block's nervous system to the disintegrating ecology of the mini-society
> of its inhabitants. Apartment blocks look much the same, whether in
> China or the suburbs of Paris, yet the lives within them are very
> different. The sounds of lift shafts, ventilation and heating systems,
> the murmurs of human activity, radio and television, have a universality
> that becomes specific only in the finest details, a moment in time at
> the right place, maybe through the walls of the 37th floor at sunset."
> -- but they always do, don´t they.
>
> /Øivind/
>
>
>
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