The first scheduled recitation for my upcoming book on Aphex Twin ’s album Selected Ambient work Volume II for the 33 1/3 serial will be at the storeyed City Lights bookstore in San Francisco ’s North Beach neighborhood . Several musicians will be unite me for this issue . More details on them as the date nears . It ’s schedule for 7:00pm . on March 20 , 2014 . City Lights Bookstore is located at 261 Columbus Avenue . Here ’s the verbal description of the event from thecitylights.comwebsite :
Discussion / Concert explore themes from Aphex Twin ’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II
with Marc Weidenbaum & admirer
Marc Weidenbaum is the generator of a new book on the British electronic musician Aphex Twin ’s landmark 1994 record album , Selected Ambient Works Volume II . The Good Book was published this February , 2014 , on the album ’s twentieth day of remembrance by the estimable 33 1/3 series . In add-on to reading from the book and strike inquiry about his research and writing , Weidenbaum has invited several instrumentalist to City Lights to do exploration of theme — not strain so much as ideas — from the Aphex Twin record album .
lavishly unintelligible , willfully vapourous — Aphex Twin ’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II , discharge by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994 , rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawn . Faithful to Brian Eno ’s definition of ambient euphony , Selected Ambient Works Volume II was on purpose functional : it provide chill out rooms , the sanctuaries amid acute raves . Choreographers and picture directors began to utilize it to their own ends , and in the intervene decade this background medicine came to the fore , adapted by Hellenic composers who reverse - engineer its fragile texture for performance on acoustic instrument . This book contends that despite a reputation for being meter - less , the album exudes percussive curiosity , providing a sonic metaphor for our technologically mediated era of multitudinous contemporize nanosecond metronome .
Marc Weidenbaum founded Disquiet.com , which is focused on the carrefour of sound , fine art , and technology , in 1996 . A former editor of Tower Records ’ Pulse ! magazine , he ’s write for Nature , Boing Boing , and the website of The Atlantic . He ’s commission compositions from such musicians as Scanner , Steve Roden , and Stephen Vitiello , and lectures on the role of speech sound in the medium landscape . He lives in San Francisco .
The book is due out on February 13 , 2014 .
Photo by Steve Rhodes via Creative Commons andflickr.com .
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