Re: [microsound] Re:ambient books

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pelagius pelagius schrieb:

> That's an interesting point about reading without bookmarks.  How 
> about spiritual books then like the Bible, I Ching, etc.  People read 
> them in a non-linear fashion and come to think of it, they can 
> sometimes have a physical presence in a room and create a sort of 
> "ambience' just lying there.

That seems to me one of the best contributions so far. The way I 
understand and listen to ambient music means that you may listen 
closely, but don't have to, that the music serves the atmosphere as a 
kind of "immeublement", and I think I can remember, Brian Eno himself 
has put it like this. A book always affords enormous concentration 
because of its plateau of abstraction. Books like the I-Ching are 
working the other way round, they really try to force the sporadical 
reader to blend the meta-layer with the world you are just placed in. 
Nice point!!!

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>> From: tattermalion <tattermalion@xxxxxxxxx>
>> also, these are books i read without bookmarks and without 'active' 
>> reading. i'll pick up the topology of the phantom city and just read 
>> a bit. it's a different kind of reading for me, separate from the 
>> plow through the book and put it on the shelf style i normally employ.
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