Re: [microsound] ambient books

["The pHarmanaut" <pharmanaut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sections of John Cage's _Empty Words_ are very ambient, particularly if read
aloud. In fact, the premise of this book--particularly the sections of
_Finnegans Wake_, seems to be the emptying of words of their meaning in
order that sound and atmosphere alone remain.

I'd also suggest that H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu books achieve their effect
almost entirely through the manipulation af ambience.

-=Trace

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Cascone" <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound_list" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:54 PM
Subject: [microsound] ambient books

> > You will never ever find an ambient book (perhaps unless it's a
> > picture album - or - as Tim mentioned - the famous coffetable mag, which
> > is also measured by total different qualities ).
>
> I don't agree...check out "Four Novels: The Square / Moderato Cantabile /
> 10:30 on a Summer Night / The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas" by Marguerite
> Duras...very atmospheric literature...
>
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