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Between Air and Electricity

Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

By: Cathy van Eck

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Between Air and Electricity

Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

By: Cathy van Eck

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

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1501327615

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9781501327612

The Tiki Room

By: Cathy Nolan Vincevic

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The Tiki Room

By: Cathy Nolan Vincevic

Arrested for the attempted murder of her father, convicted as an accessory to the crime, broken out of prison, having been struck by lightening and falling into a coma for ten years while trying to escape is just the beginning of Messenger Devreaux's odyssey. Ten long years have elapsed and Messenger has awakened to find she is not quite the same. During her ten-year coma, Messenger enters the world between life and death and learns necessary skills that move her forward in her ultimate quest. When she awakens her spirit is able to travel outside of her body, she can speak with the dead and she becomes as fast as lightning. Befriended by a brilliant former prosecutor, named Sam Cass, who was convicted because of a lifelong drug-addiction, Messenger is on a mission to find her long lost little sister who's become a cold calculating professional killer who works for a fallen angel named Shio who's own agenda is to become a god. Along the way she becomes an ally to Sam who is on a mission from God to try to save an agnostic lost soul named Dustin Clay; whom Shio believes holds the key to the Garden of Eden. But all she wants is to be reunited with the person she loves most, her sister Caedes.

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1438917511

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Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

By: Cathy Gere

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Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

By: Cathy Gere

In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans’s excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth—pacifist and matriarchal, pagan and cosmic—seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and Hilda Doolittle. Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, Cathy Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226289559

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9780226289557

Between Air and Electricity

Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

By: Cathy van Eck

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Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

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Book's by Cathy van Eck

Between Air and Electricity

Between Air and Electricity

The Tiki Room

The Tiki Room

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

Between Air and Electricity

Between Air and Electricity

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