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Ocean of Sound · David Toop

Every record Toop names in the text, chapter by chapter, in the order he names them.

Each entry carries the sentence that introduces it, set as printed. Toop’s own discography is a selective listening list rather than an index — much of it is music he writes about without naming a release — so it is reproduced in full, alphabetically, on the discography page.

243In the discography

100Named in the text

112Chapter entries

150Artists

Contents

Chapter One
Memory
sound and evocation; Muzak, ambience and aethereal culture; Brian Eno and perfume; Bali, Java, Debussy
6 entries
Chapter Two
If You Find Earth Boring …
travels in the outer imagination with Sun Ra
4 entries
Chapter Three
Scanning: Aether Talk
ambient in the 1990s; Scanner, John Cage, acid house, disco; AMM; Telepathic Fish, Biosphere, Mixmaster Morris, Land of Oz, The Orb, The KLF
11 entries
Chapter Four
Burial Rites
noise and silence, myth and reality; electrical war and the Futurists; Edgard Varèse and Charlie Parker
3 entries
Chapter Five
Content in a Void
Michael Mann and Tangerine Dream; Frank Sinatra; dead zone recordings; Alice Coltrane; Roland Kirk; Jimi Hendrix; Miles Davis; Karlheinz Stockhausen; Bow Gamelan; James Brown; Brian Wilson; Lee Perry; dub; Brian Eno
12 entries
Chapter Six
Altered States I: Landscape
Brian Eno; Bill Laswell; Don Cherry; Derek Bailey; Leo Smith; ambient; John Cage; Harold Budd; Daniel Lanois; Japanese sound design
18 entries
Chapter Seven
Altered States II: Fourth World
Jon Hassell; Pandit Pran Nath; Duke Ellington
9 entries
Chapter Eight
Altered States III: Crystal World
La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela; The Velvet Underground; Yoko Ono, Richard Maxfield, West Coast jazz, Indian vocal music, Terry Riley
16 entries
Chapter Nine
Altered States IV: Machine
Ryuichi Sakamoto; Erik Satie; Kraftwerk
7 entries
Chapter Ten
Altered States V: Lucid Dreaming
dreams, electronics; Aphex Twin; global techno
2 entries
Chapter Eleven
Altered States VI: Nature
bionics, shamanism and nature; singing sands; the Orinoco; holy minimalism and whales; Pauline Oliveros; reverberation; Alvin Lucier and sound art
6 entries
Chapter Twelve
Theatre of Sound
World Soundscape Project; Thomas Köner; Hans Jenny; plunderphonics; progressive rock; Paul Schütze
8 entries
Chapter Thirteen
Ocean of Sound
David Lynch; John Lilly; Kate Bush; David Sylvian; shamanism; ambient; information ocean
10 entries
Appendix
Discography
Toop’s own listening list, alphabetical, as printed
243 entries