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Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self
Paul Roquet
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Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816692460
SKU
V9780816692460
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About Paul Roquet
Paul Roquet is a postdoctoral fellow in global media and film studies at Brown University.
Reviews for Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self
A gateway into a world of arresting and inspiring electronic media. -New Books in Music Roquet offers a concrete cultural and technological context for anyone curious about the dominance in contemporary Japan of ambient creators. -The Japan Times Roquet's approach to ambient mediation provides a fresh and inspiring theoretical approach ... Read more