Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Eck, Cathy van

Publication

• New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
• ©2017.

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Details

Description

xvi, 198 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Subject

• Musikinstrument
• Mikrofon
• Lautsprecher
• Audiotechnik
• Sound > History
• Electronic music > History and criticism
• Microphone
• Loudspeakers
• Electronic music
• Loudspeakers
• Microphone
• Sound > Recording and reproducing

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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? -- The `true nature' of microphones and loudspeakers -- 2. Reproducing -- Supporting -- Generating -- Interacting: Four Approaches towards Microphones and Loudspeakers -- Made for music: Concepts on musical instruments -- Violins, mixing desks and spoons -- Piano lessons or a phonograph: How sound reproduction technologies entered the living room -- The instrumental phonograph and the reproducing radio -- Semantic acts of sound creation -- Hearing voices through the noise: Completely satisfactory recordings in 1902 -- Electricity, bodies and diaphragms -- Reproducing: One sound system for all music -- Supporting: The same sound but louder -- Transparent technology -- The record as a copy of the concert and the concert as a copy of the record -- Generating: Music without musical instruments -- Interacting: Resonance and resistance -- 3. The Sound of Microphones and Loudspeakers -- Acoustic feedback: An electromechanical oscillator -- The tuning fork: An early sine wave generator -- Transforming sound into a researchable object -- Hermann von Helmholtz: Tuning fork experiments -- Hermann von Helmholtz: Tuning forks reproduce human vowels -- The tympanic principle and the tuning fork principle -- Alexander Bell: Metal rods reproduce sound -- Alexander Bell: Metal plates reproduce sound -- Richard Eisenmann: An electric piano with tuning forks -- George Dieckmann: A piano string oscillator -- Bechstein-Siemens-Nernst-piano: Piano, radio and gramophone through the same loudspeaker -- 4. Movement, Material and Space: Interacting with Microphones and Loudspeakers -- Acoustic feedback: From mistake to music -- Movement -- Quintet by Hugh Davies: Changing the distance between microphone and loudspeaker -- Pendulum Music by Steve Reich: Introducing silence -- Bird and Person Dyning by Alvin Lucier: Listening as a performative act -- Green Piece by Anne Wellmer: Interacting with another sound source -- Mikrophonie I by Karlheinz Stockhausen: Amplification only -- Speaker Swinging by Gordon Monahan and Three Short Stories and an Apotheosis by Annea Lockwood: Moving loudspeakers -- Material -- Coffee making by Valerian Maly and 0'00" by John Cage: Everyday actions amplified -- Inside Piano by Andrea Neumann: Musical instruments and contact microphones -- Apple Box Double by Pauline Oliveros and Shozyg by Hugh Davies: New instruments through amplification -- Nodalings by Nicolas Collins: Acoustic feedback through objects -- Rainforest by David Tudor: Every loudspeaker a different voice -- Aptium by Lynn Pook, and Merzbow: The audible becomes feelable -- Space -- Music for piano with amplified sonorous vessels by Alvin Lucier: Interaction between microphones and small spaces -- Loudspeakers in brass instruments and focused loudspeakers: Interaction between loudspeakers and small spaces -- ... sofferte onde serene ... and Guai ai gelidi mostri by Luigi Nono: Interaction between loudspeakers and performance space -- Acousmonium by Francois Bayle: Loudspeaker orchestras -- Performances by Eliane Radigue and Der tonende See by Kirsten Reese: Sound unified in space and dispersed in space -- Audible EcoSystemics by Agostino Di Scipio: Closing the acoustic feedback loop again -- 5. Composing with Microphones and Loudspeakers -- Beyond musical instruments: A hybrid of approaches -- The Edison tone tests: No difference -- Nothing Is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever) by Alvin Lucier: A piano in a teapot -- Windy Gong by Ute Wassermann: Singing through the gong -- Snare drum pieces by Wolfgang Heiniger: Invisible beating -- Tubes by Paul Craenen: Musicians, dancers and technicians -- Open Air Bach by Lara Stanic: Speeding up a sonata -- Resistances and resonances of microphones and loudspeakers -- The future of microphones and loudspeakers: Between air and electricity.

ISBN

• 9781501327605
• 1501327607

LCCN

^^2016034186

OCLC

• 956959221
• SCSB-10267314

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library