Published
Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 12:20
- Monolithic Undertow by Harry Sword also includes The Bug, Alice Coltrane and Sarah Davachi.
Harry Sword's first book is out now.
Published by White Rabbit Books on February 18th, Monolithic Undertow is an exploration of the drone continuum from ancient philosophy to contemporary electronic music, and how Sword believes it "captures us from birth, right from the womb."
The book features writings on, and contributions from, artists such as Alice Coltrane, Surgeon and Regis, Ravi Shankar, Terry Riley, Rhys Chatham and Sarah Davachi.
"The idea of the drone as a singular force—the singular force—runs through philosophy, mathematics and theology like a gilded sonic thread," Sword writes. "Take string theory. The theory of (almost) everything. In short: all universal matter is made up of infinitesimally minuscule vibrating strings. The Large Hadron Collider; Paul McCartney, a wooden chair;—drill down far enough… it's all vibration."
Read an extract from Monolithic Undertow via The Social.
