A solution was found by installing contact microphones on the instruments that picked up the vibrations directly from the strings, with little distortion but some background noise.
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The orchestra eschews digital sampling ( music ), instead favoring analog Electroacoustic music and Acousmatic sound techniques and the use of contact microphones, when creating elements of its music.
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Since the windows couldn't be opened, he attached contact microphones to them to listen to " the heart and soul of the building, " as if through a stethoscope.
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Recorded in a barn in Ontario, the release utilizes many different instruments, including guitars, basses, strings, horns, glockenspiel, marimba, bass clarinet, saw, cymbalon, hurdy-gurdy, music boxes, modified electronics, and contact microphones.
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He performs live with computer software, various child toys, found objects, contact microphones, electromagnetic microphones ( Elektra, Mois Multi, MUTEK, MUTEK . cl, Send + Receive, WSK Festival and ZuiDianZi Festival.
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Taken from its natural environment and placed in the confined and groomed existence of a pot, amplified with a contact microphone, the cactus took on a completely new and interesting character . ..
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In addition to amplifying their instruments, Cardew and Gare would apply contact microphones to various common objects to amplify the sounds made by, for example, rubbing a glass jar or striking a coffee tin.
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A companion piece, " Time and Motion Study II, " has a solo cellist bound with contact microphones and tape delay systems; it probably needs to be seen in performance as well as heard.
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He is best known for installations of large scale Aeolian harps, such as his album " Primal Image ", which consists of contact microphone recordings of kilometre long spans of telegraph wire on in rural Perth purchased for that purpose.
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The solid-body instruments are built very much as miniature electric guitars, whereas the acoustic-electrics are usually a standard acoustic charango with the addition of a contact microphone or piezoelectric pickup to run the output of the instrument through an amplifier.