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Between Air and Electricity

Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

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

Category: 2010s

Posted on April 10, 2017March 3, 2019

Doppelbelichtung by Carola Bauckholt

Carola Bauckholt has written several pieces in which the imitation of bird sounds plays an important role. Examples are Lichtung (2011), for string quartet, and Zugvögel (2011/2012), for five wind instruments. In her piece Doppelbelichtung (2016), for the first time, … read more

Posted on March 28, 2017March 3, 2019

Tonewood by Hugo Morales Murguía

Tonewood I (2011) and Tonewood II (2015) by Hugo Morales Murguía use small tactile transducers with corks attached to their cones. Five musicians play their instruments with these transducers. The transducers do not sound at all, as long as they … read more

Posted on March 17, 2017March 3, 2019

A sympathetic piano by Gökhan Deneç

In Chapter Three of my book I discussed several early attempts of creating electric piano’s during the end of the nineteenth century. Often these efforts made use of electromagnets and feedback to keep the piano strings in vibration. The Neo … read more

Posted on February 22, 2017March 3, 2019

InPutOut by Ute Wassermann

Working with a principle similar to that in Windy Gong Ute Wassermann developed a kind of loudspeaker dress through which her voice sounded (see both pictures above from 1989).

In 2015 she composed a new piece called InPutOut using these loudspeaker … read more

Posted on February 6, 2017February 20, 2017

p. 131 Berliner Lautsprecher Orchester by Wolfgang Heiniger

Berliner Lautsprecher Orchester (since 2013) developed by Wolfgang Heiniger. This orchestra has not a symmetrical set-up, in contrary to the Acousmonium.

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Posted on February 6, 2017February 7, 2017

p. 124 Birgit Ulher

Birgit Ulher performing with a small loudspeaker inside the trumpet mute:

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Posted on February 6, 2017February 7, 2017

p. 116 Stircrazer IV by Sabrina Schroeder

Stircrazer IV (2015) by Sabrina Schroeder, using tactile transducers on bass drums:

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Posted on February 6, 2017February 15, 2017

p. 108 Inside Piano by Andrea Neumann

Andrea Neumann performing on her Inside Piano:

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Posted on January 31, 2017November 23, 2017

p. 66 frequencies (a / friction) by Nicolas Bernier

frequencies (a / friction) (2015) by  Nicolas Bernier

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Posted on January 6, 2017February 20, 2017

p. 3 LapStrap by Steffi Weismann

Different Version of LapStrap (since 2010) by Steffi Weismann, all using portable loudspeakers:

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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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