mark prendergast · introduction by brian eno
from mahler to moby — the evolution of sound in the electronic age
the argument
Every record the book names. In the order it names them. Each one carries the sentence that puts it in the argument, set exactly as printed.
Prendergast ends each entry with a LISTENING section; that is what these pages carry, not the many more the chapters name in passing. The fifth book is his own closing hundred.
the record
the ambient century
An unofficial reader’s listening guide to The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby — The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age by Mark Prendergast (Bloomsbury, new edition), with an introduction by Brian Eno.
Every record here comes from one of the book’s own LISTENING sections. The chapters name a great many more in passing — who engineered what, who influenced whom — but those are reference points rather than recommendations, and the book is careful about the difference.
Labels and years are the book’s own, uncorrected. Links run YouTube searches, so they resolve in any country. Records belong to their artists and labels; the drawings here are original work in the jacket’s idiom.