Between Air and Electricity Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments
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...
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2017
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