The Foghorn's Lament
Book description
'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' Brian Eno
'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' John Higgs
'A perfect example of the power and beauty of industrial music' Cosey Fanni Tutti
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Foghorn's Lament as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I still had a yearning for the sea, so when I came across this book, which begins with a symphony of foghorns, I was sunk.
The author excels with her descriptions of phenomenal gut-shaking sounds, and her infectious love of the weird machines that make them, doing their duty on forlorn stretches of the coast. She travels to see notable foghorns around the world, meets a guy who puts train horns on the roof of his car, and then parks in a lonely canyon to play them, enjoying the ricochet of offensively vast sound.
Several times while reading, I paused…
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