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Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools ofatmospheric design in contemporary Japan. Paul Roquet traces the emergence ofambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960sand 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation tomake a case for portraying ambient media as a neoliberal response to oldermodes of collective harmony.

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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

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Paul Roquet is a postdoctoral fellow in global media and film studies at Brown University.

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