Marc Weidenbaum Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Paperback) 33 1/3

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume IICondition: NewEAN: 9781623568900ISBN: 9781623568900Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USAFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/10/2014Item Height: 165mmItem Length: 121mmItem Weight: 140gAuthor: Marc WeidenbaumLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1623568900Description: Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous — Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawning. In the United States, it was Richard D. James's first full length on Sire Records (home to Madonna and Depeche Mode) under the moniker Aphex Twin; Sire helped usher him in as a major force in music, electronic or otherwise.Faithful to Brian Eno’s definition of ambient music, Selected Ambient Works Volume II was intentionally functional: it furnished chill out rooms, the sanctuaries amid intense raves. Choreographers and film directors began to employ it to their own ends, and in the intervening decades this background music came to the fore, adapted by classical composers who reverse-engineered its fragile textures for performance on acoustic instruments. Simultaneously, “ambient” has moved from esoteric sound art to central tenet of online culture. This book contends that despite a reputation for being beatless, the album exudes percussive curiosity, providing a sonic metaphor for our technologically mediated era of countless synchronized nanosecond metronomes.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: 33 1/3Release Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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