Skip to content

Between Air and Electricity

Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

Overview
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Other Examples

The contact microphone attached to the board of the Springboard by Eric Leonardson.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Post navigation

Previous PostPrevious The Springboard by Eric Leonardson

Search for:

Between Air and Electricity

Table of Contents
Cathy van Eck
introduction

key words

(acoustic) feedback
(hemi)spherical loudspeakers
contact microphones
everyday objects
flute
flying loudspeakers
movement
percussion
phonograph
piano
pick-ups
prepared loudspeakers
prepared microphones
sound reinforcement systems
space
tactile transducers
ten or more loudspeakers
trumpet
tuning fork
violin family
voice
walking
water
wearable

time line

1950s and earlier
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s

Recent Posts

Megaphone Music I
A hydrophone synthesiser by Tomoko Sauvage
in steps by Ricardo Eizirik
Touch Amplifiers by Özgür Erkök Moroder and Steffi Weismann
Kkwaenggwari and Bambusoides by Ji Youn Kang
acoustic resonators by Jeff Snyder
Ohr-Weide — Salix aurita by île flottante | Andrea Gsell & Nica Giuliani and Lilian Beidler
Drohnenmusik by Genoël von Lilienstern
Echo Moiré by Matteo Marangoni
Kropka na Ogonie and Soroka Fruwa by Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman
112 loud-speaking telephone receivers and other early sound reinforcement systems by Ralf Ehlert
Transduction and Acoustic Radiator by Kristen Roos
Loudspeakeroperas by Huba de Graaff
Points of Contact by Erfan Abdi
Vestiges of Discomposition and other works by Simon Whetham
The Springboard by Eric Leonardson
Touche Nature by I-lly Cheng
Small Movements by Adam Basanta
Speaker Dress by Pauchi Sasaki
Apart by Oscar Bettison
Sound in a Jar by Ronald Boersen
Transducer by Robin Fox and Eugene Ughetti
Speaker Feedback Instruments by Lesley Flanigan
Fifty years of loudspeakers and ping pong balls
Hemispherical loudspeakers for laptop orchestras
Doppelbelichtung by Carola Bauckholt
Tonewood by Hugo Morales Murguía
Klangflug by Lara Stanic
A sympathetic piano by Gökhan Deneç
An active loudspeaker by Hermann Scherchen

Accompanying website for the book Between Air and Electricity by Cathy van Eck

Proudly powered by WordPress