Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
By: Harry Sword
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious, and subcultural frontiers, ex…
Want to Read"Think of a power cut and how it brings into focus the eerie quiet that befalls a house when the various mechanical drones that our brains are so adept at tuning out - the low hum of central heating, the buzz of the refrigerator, the churn of the dryer - actually stop. The removal without forewarning of the small domestic symphony we seldom otherwise notice has a disquieting effect. But enough of the dishwasher. What of the cosmic infinity? What of the godhead? I'm sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, listening to the sound the universe made as it expanded 600,000 years after the Big Bang. It sounds like Hawkwind."-Harry Sword, Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
"Think of a power cut and how it brings into focus the eerie quiet that befalls a house when the various mechanical drones that our brains are so adept at tuning out - the low hum of central heating, the buzz of the refrigerator, the churn of the dryer - actually stop. The removal without forewarning of the small domestic symphony we seldom otherwise notice has a disquieting effect. But enough of the dishwasher. What of the cosmic infinity? What of the godhead? I'm sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, listening to the sound the universe made as it expanded 600,000 years after the Big Bang. It sounds like Hawkwind."-Harry Sword, Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
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