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Between Air and Electricity

Between Air and Electricity

Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

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

Category: 2000s

Posted on February 6, 2017February 6, 2017

p. 159 tubes by Paul Craenen

tubes (2007) by Paul Craenen:

 
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Posted on February 6, 2017February 7, 2017

p. 155 desafinado by Wolfgang Heiniger

A short fragment of desafinado (2005) for soprano saxophone, snare drum and a loudspeaker inside the snare drum, composed by Wolfgang Heiniger, performed by Marcus Weiss:… read more

Posted on February 6, 2017February 7, 2017

p. 138 Audible EcoSystemics by Agostino Di Scipio

Audible EcoSystemics n. 3a (Background Noise Study) (2003) by Agostina Di Scipio:

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Posted on February 6, 2017September 25, 2018

p. 135 Der tönende See by Kirsten Reese

Der tönende See (2000) by Kirsten Reese

Kirsten Reese has also made an online documentation of Der tönende See, which allow you to hear the sound of several bowls by moving your computer mouse on them.… read more

Posted on February 6, 2017February 7, 2017

p. 119 Aptium by Lynn Pook

A short interview with Lynn Pook about her work Aptium (unfortunately just in French!):
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Posted on February 5, 2017February 20, 2017

p. 105 Coffee making by Valerian Maly

Valerian Maly is making coffee for his new students. The coffee cooker is amplified by a contact microphone. The smell of fresh coffee is of course an important element as well during this performance!

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Posted on January 31, 2017November 23, 2017

p. 93 Green Piece by Anne Wellmer

Fragment of a recording of Green Piece (2005) by Anne Wellmer.

Violin:  Julia Eckhardt, Electronics: Anne Wellmer.… read more

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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

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