Re: [microsound] Neubauten & contact mics

[kelly davis <tokyoaudioarts@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyway have any of you guys actually tried picking up vibrations with a
> contact mic?  You have to amplify it so much that its basically acting as 
> an
> open air mike with weak signal.  Contact mics dont require amplification,
> but they have to be physically struck or mashed or scraped or attatched to
> something struck or mashed or scraped.  The whole deal with them is that
> they don't register many of the residual vibrations, mostly the initial
> attack.

Before, i disagree, i'd like to ask you of what quality you're contact mics 
are and if you're only affixing them to thick, somewhat motionless 
(non-vibratory) solid bodies. although it isn't always neccessary, try 
putting a good quality contact mic on something quite flexible and you can 
get quite a bit of sound out of it. check out WrK, especially one of Toshiya 
Tsunoda's work, where he recorded the vibrations of a steel fence between a 
parking lot & a highway, (eerie & wonderful noise).

regards,
k


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