TY - BOOK ID - 61490393 TI - Between air and electricity : microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments PY - 2017 SN - 1501327623 1501327615 1501327631 9781501327629 9781501327636 9781501327612 9781501327605 1501327607 1501344714 PB - New York : London : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Sound KW - Electronic music KW - Microphone. KW - Loudspeakers. KW - Recording and reproducing KW - History. KW - History and criticism. KW - Loud-speakers KW - Speakers (Loudspeakers) KW - Electroacoustic transducers KW - Transducers KW - Equipment and supplies KW - Microphone KW - Loudspeakers KW - Acoustics KW - Continuum mechanics KW - Mathematical physics KW - Physics KW - Pneumatics KW - Radiation KW - Wave-motion, Theory of KW - Recording and reproducing&delete& KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Music KW - Instruction & Study KW - Composition UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61490393 AB - "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."-- ER -