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"This is my step-by-step guide to DIY contact microphones (with some commercial options thrown in at the end). There are many other ways to do it, but my goals with this method are simplicity and durability."

Blog post focusing on artists exploring the amplification of long wires (like electrical lines, wire fences, etc) it includes Alan Lamb, Alastair Galbraith, and Alvin Lucier.

"The inner sounds of objects and substances picked up with contact mics or hydrophones never cease to amaze. For Inner Out, Italian sound designer and artist Nicola Giannini uses contact mics frozen in ice, and performs a concert on them by playing the ice. Using different objects and techniques, such as grinding, tapping, hitting the ice, or pouring hot water, he creates the source material which he processes with live electronics to create a surround concert."

"A simple tutorial to do an hydrophone (aquatic microphone), step by step. Do It Yourself following each step below"

"Contact microphones (& attachement methods) shootout "