David Toop's OCEAN OF SOUND

Notes [oldest to newest]

1. Jon Hassell's "Fourth World"

2. James Clifford on Surrealism

3. Toop's thesis

4. Disco and the de-emphasizing of the musician

5. The "reverberant character" of cave painting sites

6. Huysmans' "Against Nature"

7. Music as tint

8. The hybrid music of the future

9. 1986-1989: Proto-rave 12" singles

10. The influence of MIDI

11. Before Eno, disco

12. "Trance grooves" in the late 1960s

13. West African cool

14. Steve Hillage's "Rainbow Dome Musick"

15. E2-E4

16. Ambient music as a "way of listening"

17. KLF ambient albums

18. Rock gong complexes

19. Hitler and the loudspeaker

20. "Raw and the Cooked"

21. Levi-Strauss on noise

22. Russolo's "intonarumori"

23. Varese and music as a physical experience

24. Hermann Helmholtz and the sensations of tone

25. Varese's "Hyperprism"

26. Charlie Parker's "Repetition"

27. Brian Eno on Frank Sinatra

28. Two Arthur Russell 12" singles

29. The first wave of dub

30. African Headcharge's "My Life In a Hole In the Ground"

31. "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"

32. "Canaxis"

33. James Clifford and the chronotope

34. Perceiving "collective experience" as "whole"

35. James Clifford on collecting

36. 1889: First known recording of an animal

37. Eno on attention

38. Appreciating a field recording

39. The recording studio and the landscape

40. Little instruments and non-instruments

41. Derek Bailey's "Improvisation"

42. Improvisation and semiotics

43. Umberto Eco's "The Open Work"

44. Roscoe Mitchell's "Sound"

45. "Worlds Within Worlds"

46. Proto-New Age music

47. Toop's definition of ambient

48. Morse Peckham's definition of art

49. Cage's Sonatas and Interludes

50. Henry Cowell and John Cage

51. The mirliton

52. John Tilbury on John Cage

53. Cage on ambient sound

54. Cage's "imaginary landscapes"

55. Fripp and Eno's "Evening Star"

56. Harold Budd

57. Jon Hassell albums referenced in Ocean of Sound

58. "Circadian Rhythm"

59. Japanese relationships to technology

60. Ben Okri's "Stars of the New Curfew"

61. "Sunday Morning Blues"

62. Angus MacLise's "main rhythmic influence"

63. Toop's list of 1960s NYC counterculture figures

64. The Forever Blues Band

65. The sound of power plants

66. La Monte Young's spirituality

67. "Some music is not recordable"

68. John Latham's electric saw performance

69. Richard Maxfield

70. Terry Riley albums referenced in Ocean of Sound

71. Pandit Pran Nath

72. Equal temperament

73. Exploratory jazz

74. Music that doesn't go anywhere

75. Early Aphex Twin tracks

76. Two opposing characteristics of ambient music

77. Satie's ambient

78. Satie's repetiton pieces

79. Investigators of echoes and acoustics

80. Time, space, and deep listening

81. Pauline Oliveros on sound and spiritual development

82. Joseph Lanza's "Elevator Music"

83. Experimental music as refusal

84. Victor Turner and open structures

85. Rudolf Steiner and Theodor Schwenk

86. Artaud's "No More Masterpieces"

87. "Jump-cut improvising" and diverse record collections

88. Alan Splet's "earth ambient"

89. Dolphins and language

90. A culture without objects

91. Toop's final description of music