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Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan, and what it means to use media as a resource for personal mood regulation. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxa ...more
Paperback, 248 pages
Published February 1st 2016 by Univ Of Minnesota Press
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Nam Pham
Jun 06, 2017 rated it really liked it
The book introduces a lot of interesting concepts, though a little hastly and unclearly. Examples are drawn mostly from music, film and arts - which could have been comprehensive (and persuasive) if expanded to wider and physical mediums i.e. public (shared) space.
Henrique Iwao
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Um livro que me mostrou a importância de um assunto improvável, obras artísticas com uma estética "ambiente". Primeiro, por uma introdução maravilhosa, em que fala da diferença entre um conceito mais heideggeriano do mesmo, como clima, do Watsuji, determinista demais e que acabou se ligando a noções infelizes de identidade nacional, e uma ideia de "ler o ambiente", ambiente como uma construção coletiva do fluir em sociedade. Nisso, é claro que a ênfase é em uma liberdade que procura um estado de ...more
Devin
Mar 16, 2019 rated it really liked it
Shelves: non-fiction, music, japan
Nice to find this book at a moment of renewed interest in the music that is the focus of several of the chapters here (check out new compilation Kankyō Ongaku). Really interesting concepts and forms at play: "ambient subjectivation," "cosubjectivity/coobjectivity," ambient video. Reminder to self: read more on Foucault's "techniques of the self." ...more
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