TY  - BOOK
AU  - can Eck,Cathy
TI  - Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments 
SN  - 9781501327605
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Music / Instruction & Study / Composition
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Music
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - After the sound reproduction industry had claimed "perfect high fidelity" for sound recordings already at the beginning of the twentieth century, composers and sound artists challenged this perfection by tweaking microphones and loudspeakers to make them act as a musical instrument instead of a mere sound reproduction device. This book explores the instrumental use of microphones and loudspeakers in music beginning in the 1950s. The popular noise musician Merzbow, over-minimalist classic Alvin Lucier, cult instrument inventor Hugh Davies, and contemporary visual artist Lynn Pook made audible what was supposed to remain silent
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/77f2f7a2-3f17-419b-b4df-eb460da9f292
ER  -