- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation (24 Aug 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1441149724
- ISBN-13: 978-1441149725
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 277,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is not just a book about the uncanny history of sound, but about the hidden affinities between eras and art forms. The patterns it divines make Sinister Resonance something like a sonically minded companion to Marina Warner's Phantasmagoria, on the haunted nature of photography and cinema. --The Wire, August 2010
It is, in my opinion, a work unmatched, a veritable sourcebook with innumerable points of departure, and overall a stunning achievement. --Bomb Magazine, Fall 2010
It s a vast, wonderfully partial map of sounds and silences that opens up grand vistas of extra-musical meaning, a virtuoso mediation on what we tend not to hear rather than what we blithely assume we do. --Filter Magazine
'This fourth in Toop's series of meditations turns out to be the most illuminating yet.' --The Independent on Sunday
It s a vast, wonderfully partial map of sounds and silences that opens up grand vistas of extra-musical meaning, a virtuoso mediation on what we tend not to hear rather than what we blithely assume we do. --Filter Magazine
'Scarily erudite but ultimately enthralling.' --guardian.co.uk
It s a vast, wonderfully partial map of sounds and silences that opens up grand vistas of extra-musical meaning, a virtuoso mediation on what we tend not to hear rather than what we blithely assume we do. --Filter Magazine
It is, in my opinion, a work unmatched, a veritable sourcebook with innumerable points of departure, and overall a stunning achievement. --Bomb Magazine, Fall 2010
It s a vast, wonderfully partial map of sounds and silences that opens up grand vistas of extra-musical meaning, a virtuoso mediation on what we tend not to hear rather than what we blithely assume we do. --Filter Magazine
'This fourth in Toop's series of meditations turns out to be the most illuminating yet.' --The Independent on Sunday
It s a vast, wonderfully partial map of sounds and silences that opens up grand vistas of extra-musical meaning, a virtuoso mediation on what we tend not to hear rather than what we blithely assume we do. --Filter Magazine
'Scarily erudite but ultimately enthralling.' --guardian.co.uk
It s a vast, wonderfully partial map of sounds and silences that opens up grand vistas of extra-musical meaning, a virtuoso mediation on what we tend not to hear rather than what we blithely assume we do. --Filter Magazine
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This is a major new philosophical work from one of the world's most erudite, intellectual, and influential thinkers and writers about sound and music. "Sinister Resonance" argues that sound - the entire continuum of the audible and inaudible spectrum, including silence, noise, quiet, implicit and imagined sound - can be identified as a hidden history of otherwise silent media. A profound engagement with sound runs through human culture and yet in many cases that engagement goes unrecognised. Neglect invariably engenders a counter movement, so sound and silence (even noise) can be idealised as the most pure and positive of sensory impressions. This reduces the fullness of sound and ignores its darker attributes as a trespasser, an invader of territory, an agent of instability. This is David Toop's most philosophical book. It's also his most literary, artistic, and scientific work to date, a work that looks at novels, poems, paintings, and myriad other sources to examine the peculiar nature of sound and its relationship to the other senses. It's a meditation on the art of listening - about how it connects us with the world, and about those aspects of the world that seem entirely disconnected from it.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've really enjoyed Toop's previous books, but this one seems a bit of a mess. There's some very nice, perceptive stuff in here, which is to be expected, but the book as a whole doesn't appear to have a structured focus. It appears randomly organized with an inconsistent quality to his style. I constantly had a feeling of deja vu as he repeats himself so much. He also lobs in gratuitous details from his private life that make no contribution to his argument. Some of the blame must go to his editor who could have done a great deal of tightening up. In fact, if you tore the book in half (I mean that metaphorically!) you could read either half on its own without any loss of what he's getting at (and I'm still not sure what that is).
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I so wanted to like this book but it really is a pale travesty of what it might have been. Toop is clearly very interested (I would hesitate to say passionate, as passion is the last thing to emerge through the prose here) in this topic and has clearly read very widely in putting the book together. What is not so clear is that he has understood what he has read. He draws indiscriminately on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, myth, art, throwing ideas down as plods on unconcerned with making any sense of what he is relating and unclear as to what he is himself trying to say. At times it comes across as though Toop has been utterly defeated by not only his sources but, moreover, his own language as it slips out from his grasp and leaves the reader suffocating in excessive and ultimately meaningless sentences. There is, I think, a wealth of interesting ideas somewhere in the background of this book but Toop is no writer and is evidently not up to the challenge of grappling convincingly with or conveying these ideas.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is so much more than just an academic textbook or a collection of personal thoughts and experiences. Toop had given us in the past some really amazing readings that helped us expanding our knowledge and understanding of sound. Now in "sinister resonance" in my opinion his most full, mature and profound written creation, he penetrates the boundaries of music practices and talks about sound epistemology, about audio memory in literature and in the arts. A book that should be read from anyone that would like to know about the history of sound.
Superb, immersive, provocative,revolutionary in context and content, operates as a neuralgic encyclopedia with rich and lavish references and bibliography, that covers an immense range of topics. just BRILLIANT.
Superb, immersive, provocative,revolutionary in context and content, operates as a neuralgic encyclopedia with rich and lavish references and bibliography, that covers an immense range of topics. just BRILLIANT.
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