Re: [microsound] Re:ambient books

["pelagius pelagius" <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thinking about this a little further I came to realize that the idea of 
books as "ameublement" is really no stretch at all.  A friend of mine is a 
book and manuscript dealer and sells a lot of "bindings" i.e. people come in 
and buy nicely bound books by the feet as decoration.  So the creative leap 
of treating music as a furnishing of a room is a much more radical move than 
the pretty literal (pardon the pun) use of books as ameublement.

An "ambient" book along these lines of thinking might be A Rebours (Against 
Nature AKA Against the Grain) by JK Huysmans which I don't think has been 
mentioned yet.  I think David Toop makes some nice connections to Huysmans 
in Ocean of Sound.

>From: Store <store@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>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.

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