Between air and electricity, microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments, Cathy van Eck
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Between air and electricity, microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments, Cathy van Eck
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Between air and electricity
Medium
electronic resource
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bibliographydictionaries
Oclc number
957265028
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Cathy van Eck
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Open Access e-Books
Sub title
microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments
Summary
"Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from ?inaudible? technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century, these artists found surprising ways of use ? for instance tweaking microphones, swinging loudspeakers furiously around, ditching microphones in all kinds of vessels, or strapping loudspeakers to body parts of the audience. Between air and electricity traces their quest and sets forward a new theoretical framework, providing historic background on technological and artistic development, and diagrams of concert and performance set-ups. From popular noise musician Merzbow to minimalist classic Alvin Lucier, cult instrument inventor Hugh Davies, or contemporary visual artist Lynn Pook ? they all aimed to make audible what was supposed to remain silent. www.microphonesandloudspeakers.com."--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Beyond the Curtain: The True Nature' of Microphones and Loudspeakers -- Reproducing-- Supporting-- Generating-- Interacting: Four Approaches towards Microphones and Loudspeakers -- The Sound of Microphones and Loudspeakers -- Movement, Material and Space: Interacting with Microphones and Loudspeakers -- Composing with Microphones and LoudspeakersMachine generated contents note: 1. Beyond the Curtain: The True Nature' of Microphones and Loudspeakers -- An empty stage: Listening according to the Konzertreform -- A concert at home: The invention of sound reproduction technologies -- Storage of air pressure waves -- Transportation of air pressure waves -- Amplification of air pressure waves -- Between air and electricity -- A standard, almost perfect amplifier and loudspeaker -- Microphones and loudspeakers: The musical instruments of our age? --
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