| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Introduction: reading the air -- Background music of the avant-garde: the quiet boom of Erik Satie -- The sound of embodied security: imaginary landscapes of ambient music -- Moving with the rhythms of the city: ambient video attunements -- Soft fascinations in shallow depth: compositing ambient space -- Subtractivism: low-affect living with ambient cinema -- Healing style: ambient literature and the aesthetics of calm -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
'Ambient Media' examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan, and specifically 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 relaxation. Focusing on how an atmosphere works to reshape those dwelling within it, Roquet shows how ambient aesthetics can provide affordances for reflective drift, rhythmic attunement, embodied security, and urban coexistence. Musicians, video artists, filmmakers and novelists in Japan have expaned on Brian Eno's notion of the ambient as a style contributing 'calm, and a space to think, ' exploring what it means to to cultivate an ambivalent tranquility set against the uncertain horizons of an ever-shifting social landscape |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2016 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography, videography and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 8, 2016) |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Japan
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Mass media -- Philosophy
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Space and time in mass media.
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Mass media
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Mass media -- Philosophy
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Space and time in mass media
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Ambient
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Film
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Literatur
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Stimmung
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Japan
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781452953625 |
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1452953627 |
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9781452945460 |
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1452945462 |
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