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Between Air and Electricity

Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

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Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
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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

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