A portion of T.M. Wolf's (@tom_tm_wolf) debut novel, SOUND, "live produced" and remixed using an Akai APC-20 sampler.

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“No one who is curious about the many ways in which stories may be told could fail to be interested in this book. Sound is bold and fresh and loud   - a jack kerouac of a novel for a new generation.” - Kirsty Gunn, author of Rain

“SOUND is an astonishing tumble of noise and voice, imbricated conversations and overheard lyrics. And yet running through its heart is a quiet and beautiful love story, speaking of all the things left unsaid. A brilliant, inventive debut.” - Peter Hobbs, author of The Short Day Dying and I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train

“It’s as if T.M. Wolf has written a novel in stereo, while everything else is in mono.” - Evie Wyld, author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

“T. M. Wolf’s debut novel is a sonorous explosion of narrative, thought and dialogue that bounces off the page in a cacophony of loops, remixes and break-beats. Unlike anything I have ever read, SOUND is pitch-perfect, daring and wondrously atmospheric.” - Lee Rourke, author of The Canal 

“[Wolf’s] dizzying interests somehow coalesce in this first novel, with the prose arranged here and there on horizontal lines, like musical notation.” - Stephen Heyman, The New York Times

“[A] feast for the eyes that is oddly reminiscent at turns of the late-’60s Tom Wolfe but assuredly of the here and now…” - Kirkus Reviews

“For all that Wolf does to modify and play with the form in order to tell his story, he also has his storytelling basics down, making for a fine balance of innovation and tradition.” - Capital New York

"[P]opular music has some catching up to do with Wolf for his multifaceted ambivalence towards reckoning with one’s past. Nostalgia is a fetish; in Sound it’s a compulsion, a habit to be tamed." - Full Stop

“An ambitious debut by a writer to watch, this work will appeal to those who read with their ears.” - Library Journal

“If the Modernists have already mastered realistic dialogue, T.M. Wolf has given us the master mix: the pregnant pauses, the awkward stumbling, that too-loud radio in the background, and everything in between… [A]n aural and aesthetic experience, begging you to read the scenes out loud and revel in its beautiful, oftentimes chaotic, layout.” - The Providence Cowl

“Sound is as ambitious as it is innovative in format, telling much of its story through the notation of a musical score, a storytelling style that serves this debut novel well.” - Largehearted Boy

A Daily Beast “Hot Read”

A Largehearted WORD Book of the Week

A Library Journal “Best Bet” First Novel for Spring/Summer 2012

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Sound effects courtesy of these FreeSound.org users: themfish (vinyl), junggle (scratches), joedeshon (alarm clock), gezortenplotz (idling bus), and mrmayo (arcade noise). Used under Creative Commons Attribution Licenses (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).


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SOUND, Remixing My Time With Her

Pages from T.M. Wolf's debut novel, SOUND, remixed on the Akai APC-20. Beat upped by the one and only Beatnam Vets. Screwed up by yours truly. Matching annotation on RapGenius (http://rapgenius.com/Tom-wolf-authors-cut-of-chapter-3-of-sound-lyrics).

SOUND is available NOW (http://tmwolf.tumblr.com/store).

“[A] feast for the eyes that is oddly reminiscent at turns of the late-’60s Tom Wolfe but assuredly of the here and now… It’s something David Foster Wallace might have tried, and in the experiment, Wolf acquits himself well.” - Kirkus Reviews

“Wolf widens [the] modernist niche with gusto and the result is a novel that can truly be described as pitch perfect.” - The Independent (UK)

“No one who is curious about the many ways in which stories may be told could fail to be interested in this book. Sound is bold and fresh and loud   - a jack kerouac of a novel for a new generation.” - Kirsty Gunn, author of Rain

„Dieses Buch sich allein sich nur anzuschauen, macht Freude. Ein typografisches Kunstwerk ist es allemal.“ (Der Tagesspiegel, Gerrit Bartels, 25.11.2012)

Read more about Sound here: http://tmwolf.tumblr.com/sound



SOUNDpiece No. 5: The Tides

Tom “T. M.” Wolf is a writer and sound artist. His debut novel, Sound, was recently published in the United States (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Faber and Faber, Inc.), the UK (Faber & Faber), and Germany (Berlin Verlag). French, Italian, and Bosnian editions are also currently in the works.

Tom was born and raised on the Jersey Shore. Prior to releasing Sound, Tom worked as a freelance music journalist, writing primarily about hip-hop and soul. His reviews, essays, and short fiction have appeared in such outlets as The Wire, Bullett, PopMatters, Okayplayer, Stylus, The Stanford Technology Law Review, and Undercover: A Mixtape Magazine.

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