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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: Chapter 4

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, 2017November 17, 2021

p. 134 Eliane Radigue

A documentation on Eliane Radigue. She mentions how she places loudspeakers in the concert hall at 10’00”:

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_TtEP7slx4… read more

Posted on February 6, 2017February 7, 2017

p. 131 Acousmonium by François Bayle

A short video showing some of the loudspeakers used in the nowadays Acousmonium of the GRM:

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Posted on February 6, 2017February 20, 2017

p. 128 Guai ai gelidi mostri by Luigi Nono

Guai ai gelidi mostri (1983) by Luigi Nono, with live electronics on 10 loudspeakers in the concert hall (of which you won’t hear anything on youtube of course…). A piece to hear live in the concert hall!

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Posted on February 6, 2017February 6, 2017

p. 127 …..sofferte onde serene… by Luigi Nono

Again a piece, which can hardly be documented by a video, since it uses loudspeakers underneath the piano and loudspeakers in the concert hall.

…..sofferte onde serene… (1976) by Luigi Nono:

and part II:

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Posted on February 6, 2017February 7, 2017

p. 125 Focused Loudspeakers by Composers Inside Electronics

Sketches and pictures of focused loudspeakers (1977) by Composers Inside Electronics can be found on their website.… read more

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 20, 2017

p. 122 Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels by Alvin Lucier

Hildegard Kleeb performs Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels (1990)  by Alvin Lucier, also available on the CD Panorama, with other beautiful works by Alvin Lucier:

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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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