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Between air and electricity : microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments / / Cathy van Eck



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Autore: Eck Cathy van Visualizza persona
Titolo: Between air and electricity : microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments / / Cathy van Eck Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017
London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 781.49
Soggetto topico: Sound - Recording and reproducing - History
Electronic music - History and criticism
Microphone
Loudspeakers
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Beyond the Curtain: The True Nature' of Microphones and Loudspeakers -- Reproducing-- Supporting-- Generating-- Interacting: Four Approaches towards Microphones and Loudspeakers -- The Sound of Microphones and Loudspeakers -- Movement, Material and Space: Interacting with Microphones and Loudspeakers -- Composing with Microphones and Loudspeakers.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Beyond the Curtain: The True Nature' of Microphones and Loudspeakers -- An empty stage: Listening according to the Konzertreform -- A concert at home: The invention of sound reproduction technologies -- Storage of air pressure waves -- Transportation of air pressure waves -- Amplification of air pressure waves -- Between air and electricity -- A standard, almost perfect amplifier and loudspeaker -- Microphones and loudspeakers: The musical instruments of our age? --
Sommario/riassunto: "Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from ?inaudible? technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century, these artists found surprising ways of use ? for instance tweaking microphones, swinging loudspeakers furiously around, ditching microphones in all kinds of vessels, or strapping loudspeakers to body parts of the audience. Between air and electricity traces their quest and sets forward a new theoretical framework, providing historic background on technological and artistic development, and diagrams of concert and performance set-ups. From popular noise musician Merzbow to minimalist classic Alvin Lucier, cult instrument inventor Hugh Davies, or contemporary visual artist Lynn Pook ? they all aimed to make audible what was supposed to remain silent. www.microphonesandloudspeakers.com."--
Titolo autorizzato: Between air and electricity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5013-2763-1
1-5013-2762-3
1-5013-2761-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910155078603321
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