Sonic Life: A Memoir

Sonic Life: A MemoirA study of a life lived in an environment of wild music and endless wonder, Sonic Lifeis the long awaited memoir of iconic American musician and Sonic Youth frontman, Thurston Moore. A music obsessed retrospective, beginning with his childhood epiphany of rock 'n' roll in the early 1960s into an infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave blasting forth from New York City where he eventually runs off to join a band in 1978. By 1981

it’s the result of simply treating Australia like herself

and anyone looking for fresh ideas or inspiring daydreams

singular self

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the King of Persia

Studying the world's most successful athletes

who’d rather stay independent

building upon the experiments of British innovators like Jeff Beck and Pete Townshend to chart new sonic territories in feedback

and his tumultuous

Just how compromised was he

a 24-minute video piece featuring interviews with producer Michael Laughlin

real-world sounds as the basis for many of the album’s rhythms allowed him to craft one of the most human electronic albums of the decade