| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Online access: Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- History
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Electronic music -- History and criticism
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Microphone.
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Loudspeakers.
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microphones.
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Electronic musical instruments.
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Acoustic & sound engineering.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Electronic music.
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Loudspeakers.
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Microphone.
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Sound -- Recording and reproducing.
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Audiotechnik
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Lautsprecher
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Mikrofon
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Musikinstrument
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016039112 |
| ISBN |
9781501327629 |
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1501327623 |
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9781501327636 |
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1501327631 |
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9781501344718 |
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1501344714 |
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