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Contents
Introduction: Reading the Air
1. Background Music of the Avant-Garde: The Quiet Boom of Erik
Satie
2. The Sound of Embodied Security: Imaginary Landscapes of Ambient
Music
3. Moving with the Rhythms of the City: Ambient Video
Attunements
4. Soft Fascinations inShallow Depth: Compositing Ambient Space
5. Subtractivism: Low-Affect Living with Ambient Cinema
6. Healing Style: Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Film and Videography
Discography
Index
Paul Roquet is a postdoctoral fellow in global media and film
studies at Brown University.
"Through a series of probing interventions, Paul Roquet generates a
new environment for Japan studies—one that takes into account the
faint, ambient, receding, and ubiquitous immaterialities that fill
Japan's ether. This is a work worth noticing."—Akira Mizuta Lippit,
University of Southern California
"Ambient Media is an ambitious work that introduces the reader to a
captivating cross-section of ambient media in the current Japanese
mediascape, with a particular focus on sound and image-based arts.
Paul Roquet smartly cuts through multiple strata from music to
experimental performance to design, offering a fresh and novel
perspective on the atmospheres of ambient media."—Marc Steinberg,
Concordia University
"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 for media studies and offers a fruitful
discussion of the spati-temporal aspects of atmospheric immersion
or ambient (non)mediation, describing it as something experienced
as the synchronization of rhythm or the contingency of
space."—Journal of Japanese Studies"Beyond the clear grounding in
Japan studies, this book opens ways of thinking with a much broader
relevance beyond the specific context of postindustrial Japan.
Roquet’s writing is thorough yet evocative, with a tone of
presentation that cleverly draws us into the reflective meditation
being discussed."—Cultural Politics"Ambient Media’s strength lies
in its hybrid nature, seamlessly blending together Japanese and
Western Critical traditions and historical trajectories. Roquet’s
close readings of individual texts are vivid and convincing, and
the analyses are grounded in specific historical and cultural
contexts."—Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema"What Ambient Media
achieves is the construction of a clear, contemporary history of
the topic while addressing the inherently double-edged
possibilities such as history creates for interpretation."—Japanese
Studies"Beyond the more theoretical passages, Roquet also offers
intriguing case studies of individual practitioners working in
their respective ambient media that inspire one to check out their
work, from musicians and sound artists such as Tetsu Inoue and
Chihei Hatakeyama to experimental filmmakers like Masakatsu Takagi,
while displaying a remarkable talent for poetically evoking Tokyo’s
various landscapes and accompanying soundscapes through lively
descriptions of often highly abstract aural and visual
material."—All the Anime"Ambient Media opens ways for thinking with
a much broader relevance beyond the specific context of
postindustrial Japan. Roquet’s writing is thorough yet evocative,
with a tone of presentation that cleverly draws us into the
reflective meditation being discussed."—Cultural Politics
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