Section one: Aerial; 1. Drowned by voices; 2. Each echoing opening; each muffled closure; 3. Dark senses; 4. Writhing sigla; 5. The jagged dog; Section two: Vessels and Volumes; 6. Act of silence; 7. Art of silence; 8. A conversation piece; Section three: Spectral; 9. Chair creaks, but no one sits there; Section four: Interior Resonance; 10. Snow falling on snow; Coda: Distant Voices; Acknowledgements; Notes; Index.
David Toop is a musician, writer, and sound curator. His acclaimed books include Rap Attack, Ocean of Sound, Exotica, and Haunted Weather. His writing has also appeared in The Wire, Bookforum, and the New York Times. He lives in London.
David Toop is the brilliant voyager of our sonic century, for whom
music is a map of our dreams. With Sinister Resonance he takes us
yet farther and deeper into coordinates uncharted but remembered
all the same, beyond the horizon where the listener meets the
listened. - Steve Erickson
It's all about a sound that no one could hear except those who
might listen. And for ears that [can] dream.........what a noise
!!! -Brothers Quay
It's as if contemporary culture has developed a case of hyperacusis
in the form of Toop's 'perpetual vigilance' as he haunts the
permeable boundary between the extremities of sound and the
fullness of silence. Ruminating on its unmatched power of
evocation, Toop manifests sound after transient sound from the
pages of this 'silent art', increasing awareness of our own
auditory acuity as the walls between inner and outer space collapse
around our ears. - David Sylvian
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