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Encyclopedia > Alan Lamb

For the English cricketer with a similar name, see Allan Lamb Allan Joseph Lamb (born 20 June 1954) is a former English cricketer. ...


Alan Lamb is an Australian artist, composer, and sound sculptor.


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 twelve acres in rural Baldivis south of Perth purchased for that purpose. Aeolian harp in the old castle of Baden Baden, from an article in Scientific American Supplement, No. ... A Contact Microphone is a form of microphone designed not for picking up airborne sound waves, but rather to act as a transducer which picks up vibrations through solid materials and converts them into audible sound. ... Baldivis is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham. ... Location of Perth within Australia This article is about the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. ...


External links

  • Bibliography and list of installations on the Australian Sound Design Project website
  • Biography and description of instruments
  • W I R E D Lab Project


 

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