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On Music, Sound and Us

He can be a little bit cheeky, can Michel. One reason you may be reading his book is that you’re not that interested in music at all, but you loved The Crimson Petal and the White or Under the Skin or The Book of New Strange Things and, in the absence of any more novels by Michel Faber, you thought......more

Ik las nog geen enkele roman van Michel Faber, maar ken wel enkele mensen die lyrisch deden over Lelieblank, scharlakenrood. Daar ben ik nooit aan begonnen, maar dat deze fictie-auteur de moeite heeft genomen om een lijvig boek over muziek te schrijven, interesseerde me wel. Muziek, in al haar versc......more

Loved it. Yes, it’s all over the place and a bit messy, but that’s totally fitting with the nature of music and our relationship(s) to it. Music and how we treat it doesn’t really make any sense, when you start to think of it, and is full of contradictions. And I’ve never read a book that shows this......more

This just wasn’t for me. I was hoping for something that would go deep into how musical preferences shape our perception of music, what drives our preferences, and the cultural/tribal aspect of those preferences. Instead, this felt like various lines of thought that (sometimes tenuously) touched on......more

Meandered a lot, but still lots of interesting nuggets......more