[Design] Handphone Table!

Posted: January 11th, 2005 | 7 Comments »

Since Pasta and Vinegar is in a raging war with regine, I have to use a wild card: a 25 years old table which is still impressice: The Handphone Table made by Laurie Anderson in 1978. It is now part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France.

When the listeners put their elbows on the table and cover their ears with hands, they can hear the sounds coming through wood and bones of their own arms which, similarly to wood, have a porous structure.The principle of the performance of Handphone Table bases on the conduction of sound through bones. Stereophonic music in low ranges is strengthened and processed to the form of impulses, spread through metal bars connecting with four points on the inner surface of the table top.

7 Comments on “[Design] Handphone Table!”

  1. 1 Wellcome to nhomkimcuong.com - Gadget Reviews | MP3 Player | Camera | Computer said at 12:00 pm on August 8th, 2006:

    [...] Enlightened for wordpress. By Subnixus.com Since Pasta and Vinegar is in a raging war with regine , I have to use a wild card: a 25 years old continue [...]

  2. 2 Pocket.Net - Mobile 2.0 : The Handphone Table said at 10:32 am on March 16th, 2007:

    [...] The Handphone Table The Handphone Table, made by Laurie Anderson in 1978, is part of the collection of Lyon’s Museum of Contemporary Art , posted by Pasta and Vinegar in 2005 – - something I missed at the time. [via we-make-money-not-art.com] [...]

  3. 3 digital aesthetics » Table Recorder said at 10:09 am on March 21st, 2007:

    [...] In terms of its appearance, Frederic Gmeiner’s Table Recorder is slightly remindful of Laurie Anderson’s wonderful Handphone Table. But, while Anderson’s installation merely functions as a poetic playback device for pre-produced music, this table allows you to actually create your own sounds. [...]

  4. 4 Handphone Table, Recorder Table « Video and Intermedia Art! said at 3:25 pm on September 15th, 2010:

    [...] Sep I was posting some info on Laurie Anderson’s Handphone Table when I came across this article from the blog “We Make Money Not Art” which I’ve [...]

  5. 5 Laurie Anderson « Intro to Video Art! said at 3:59 pm on September 15th, 2010:

    [...] Sep Here is a link to more info on Laurie Anderson’s Handphone Table. Laurie Anderson is an experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboard. [...]

  6. 6 Laurie Anderson « Intro to Video Art! said at 3:14 pm on February 7th, 2011:

    [...] is a link to more info on Laurie Anderson’s Handphone Table. Laurie Anderson is an experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboard. [...]

  7. 7 Storyboard: An experiment in open research | Tangible Auditory Interfaces said at 4:10 pm on February 17th, 2011:

    [...] I have no clue how it sounded like. All I know are that there are some images of it on the net [Pasta & Vinegar, 2005 | Replay | etc.], and that she made a textual description: When the listeners put their elbows on [...]

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