Re: [microsound] Re:ambient books

[Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx>]

> one of my favourite 'dipping' RAM books...

and one of my own, for 'random dipping:' Around the Day in 80 Worlds,
Julio Cortazar.  Illustrations, photos, aphorisms, poems, outtakes,
essays...  incisive, lyrical, smouldering, sexy, penetrating.

Many of its vignettes have the recently mentioned effect of coloring one's
perceptions... but I find them too brash to be genuinely 'ambient' in the
sense that they would rest comfortably in the background

Much more ambient in the vein of Robbe-Grillet: Natalie Sarraute.  I loved
Tropismes, a collection of short studies of the mind (non-, dis-) engaging
from various (banal?) circumstances;  she's probably more famous for "the
Planetarium," which follows a congregation of cohabiting voices revealing
their habits and habitations.

 aaron

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