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• Megaphone Music I - Between Air and Electricity

  An article on compositions and performances with megaphones by Ken Ueno, Yun Ingrid Lee, Jagoda Szmytka and Marcel Zaes,

• Speaker Feedback Instruments by Lesley Flanigan - Between Air and Electricity

  The speaker feedback instruments by Lesley Flanigan are a beautiful example of combining acoustic feedback and musical instruments.  What makes the technology of these instruments exceptional is their...

• Fifty years of loudspeakers and ping pong balls - Between Air and Electricity

  Some objects seem particularly suitable for use in preparing loudspeakers. Perhaps ping pong balls were favored objects for this due to their lightness and characteristic sound. Comparing several of t...

• Hemispherical loudspeakers for laptop orchestras - Between Air and Electricity

  With the rise of laptops in music in the 1990s, and more musicians using laptops on stage, it did not take long before the first laptop orchestra was founded. Nowadays there are many of them and there...

• Loudspeakeroperas by Huba de Graaff - Between Air and Electricity

  In her opera Lautsprecher Arnolt (2004) Huba de Graaff decided to have most roles played by loudspeakers. Only the main character—the writer, Arnolt Bronnen (1895-1959)—is played by a human actor, Mar...

• 112 loud-speaking telephone receivers and other early sound reinforcement systems by Ralf Ehlert

  The picture above was made in 1919 during the Victory Liberty Loan and the lamp-like objects hanging above the crowd are so-called loud-speaking telephone receivers. The crowd had “the unusual sensati...