دانلود کتاب Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

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Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nList of Figures\nList of Schemes\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n1 Beyond the Curtain: The ‘True Nature’ of Microphones and Loudspeakers\n An empty stage: Listening according to the Konzertreform\n A concert at home: The invention of sound reproduction technologies\n Storage of air pressure waves\n Transportation of air pressure waves\n Amplification of air pressure waves\n Between air and electricity\n A standard, almost perfect amplifier and loudspeaker\n Microphones and loudspeakers: The musical instruments of our age?\n The ‘true nature’ of microphones and loudspeakers\n2 Reproducing – Supporting – Generating – Interacting: Four Approaches towards Microphones and Loudspeakers\n Made for music: Concepts on musical instruments\n Violins, mixing desks and spoons\n Piano lessons or a phonograph: How sound reproduction technologies entered the living room\n The instrumental phonograph and the reproducing radio\n Semantic acts of sound creation\n Hearing voices through the noise: Completely satisfactory recordings in 1902\n Electricity, bodies and diaphragms\n Reproducing: One sound system for all music\n Supporting: The same sound but louder\n Transparent technology\n The record as a copy of the concert and the concert as a copy of the record\n Generating: Music without musical instruments\n Interacting: Resonance and resistance\n3 The Sound of Microphones and Loudspeakers\n Acoustic feedback: An electromechanical oscillator\n The tuning fork: An early sine wave generator\n Transforming sound into a researchable object\n Hermann von Helmholtz: Tuning fork experiments\n Hermann von Helmholtz: Tuning forks reproduce human vowels\n The tympanic principle and the tuning fork principle\n Alexander Bell: Metal rods reproduce sound\n Alexander Bell: Metal plates reproduce sound\n Richard Eisenmann: An electric piano with tuning forks\n George Dieckmann: A piano string oscillator\n Bechstein-Siemens-Nernst-piano: Piano, radio and gramophone through the same loudspeaker\n4 Movement, Material and Space: Interacting with Microphones and Loudspeakers\n Acoustic feedback: From mistake to music\n Movement\n Quintet by Hugh Davies: Changing the distance between microphone and loudspeaker\n Pendulum Music by Steve Reich: Introducing silence\n Bird and Person Dyning by Alvin Lucier: Listening as a performative act\n Green Piece by Anne Wellmer: Interacting with another sound source\n Mikrophonie I by Karlheinz Stockhausen: Amplification only\n Speaker Swinging by Gordon Monahan and Three Short Stories and an Apotheosis by Annea Lockwood: Moving loudspeakers\n Material\n Coffee making by Valerian Maly and 0’00” by John Cage: Everyday actions amplified\n Inside Piano by Andrea Neumann: Musical instruments and contact microphones\n Apple Box Double by Pauline Oliveros and Shozyg by Hugh Davies: New instruments through amplification\n Nodalings by Nicolas Collins: Acoustic feedback through objects\n Rainforest by David Tudor: Every loudspeaker a different voice\n Aptium by Lynn Pook, and Merzbow: The audible becomes feelable\n Space\n Music for piano with amplified sonorous vessels by Alvin Lucier: Interaction between microphones and small spaces\n Loudspeakers in brass instruments and focused loudspeakers: Interaction between loudspeakers and small spaces\n . . . . .sofferte onde serene… and Guai ai gelidi mostri by Luigi Nono: Interaction between loudspeakers and performance space\n Acousmonium by François Bayle: Loudspeaker orchestras\n Performances by Eliane Radigue and Der tönende See by Kirsten Reese: Sound unified in space and dispersed in space\n Audible EcoSystemics by Agostino Di Scipio: Closing the acoustic feedback loop again\n5 Composing with Microphones and Loudspeakers\n Beyond musical instruments: A hybrid of approaches\n The Edison tone tests: No difference\n Nothing Is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever) by Alvin Lucier: A piano in a teapot\n Windy Gong by Ute Wassermann: Singing through the gong\n Snare drum pieces by Wolfgang Heiniger: Invisible beating\n tubes by Paul Craenen: Musicians, dancers and technicians\n Open Air Bach by Lara Stanic: Speeding up a sonata\n Resistances and resonances of microphones and loudspeakers\n The future of microphones and loudspeakers: Between air and electricity\nAppendix Biographies\nBibliography\nIndex