Toop's definition of ambient
 

after describing the accident that leads Eno to the unfocused recovery-listening experience that births ambient music (139), Toop gives ambient's "present definition":
 
"music that we hear but don't hear, sounds which exist to enable us better to hear silence, sound which rests us from our intense compulsion to focus, to analyse, to frame, to categorize, to isolate"(139-40)
> from David Toop's Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (1995)

> tagged with #sound, #music

> created October 31, 2023 at 2:45:16 PM


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