Sentence examples for contact microphone from inspiring English sources

The words, in Mr. Coll's view, are devoid of meaning; hence the singer wears a laryngophone, a contact microphone that picks up sounds from the throat before the mouth can shape them into words.

Ms. Block deployed her implements — hand-held microcassette recorders and walkie-talkies, a contact microphone brushed through her hair, a cathode light that flashed in time with pattering electronic pulsations — with an elegantly choreographed efficiency.

So he wired up this earth-encrusted carcass to a contact microphone, the technology allowing him to eavesdrop on ghost-harmonies as he massaged, probed and bowed the instrumental ruins with wooden and metal objects.

In the tangle of live electronics, sampled and processed material, turntable sounds and the various ambient hums provided by, say, a contact microphone or a bow on a string, you often can't possibly tell where each sound is coming from.

Carly Ptak rubbed her hands together over a small jewelry box that had been wired to become a conductor of sound; James (Twig) Harper put a small contact microphone in his mouth, almost chewing it, making death-rattle vocal noises as he manipulated a small reel-to-reel tape recorder.

She filmed the descendants' interactions, and Greg Hooper, her technical collaborator and sound designer, put a contact microphone (similar to a stethoscope) "against one of the ancient trees that had stood witness to the events in the valley below, and captured a sound like gurgling water deep within it".

In recent years, he's worked with contact microphones, phonograph-need, cartridges & electronic circuits.

He moved his hands across the surface of the table, creating hissing and rubbing sounds, supermagnified through sensitive contact microphones on the table.

That summer, he attached contact microphones to the windows of his studio on the 91st floor of Tower One to pick up ambient outside noise.

While Prefuse 73 has been celebrated for his cut-up electronica, this new album came out of a "strange fascination/obsession [with] contact microphones".

In a recent solo show in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Patton installed a series of abstract sculptures-cum-instruments in one of the space's galleries, and kitted them, as well as the floor, with contact microphones.