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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

Tag: movement

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

Posted on January 31, 2017November 23, 2017

p. 91 Bird and Person Dyning by Alvin Lucier

Bird and Person Dyning (1975) by Alvin Lucier

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Posted on January 31, 2017November 23, 2017

p. 88 Pendulum Music by Steve Reich

Pendulum Music (1968) by Steve Reich

(score from: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/5-12-examples-of-experimental-music-notation-92223646/)

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Posted on January 31, 2017November 23, 2017

p. 84 Quintet by Hugh Davies

Quintet (1968) by Hugh Davies:

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Posted on January 31, 2017December 21, 2017

p. 40 Leslie tone cabinet

Leslie tone cabinet

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Posted on January 6, 2017February 7, 2017

p. 3 Audio Ballerina’s by Benoît Maubrey

Audio Ballerina’s by Benoît Maubrey:

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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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  • 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

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