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[Tennis racquets equipped with electronic components / Design: William Kaminski, Jim D. McGee]. — 1966. — 2 items: wood, metal; 68.6 cm X 28 cm and 68.6 cm x 23 cm. — Used as props during Robert Rauschenberg's performance "Open Score", presented in the context of the "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" event , The Armory (New York, N.Y., United States), October 13-23, 1966. — Contact microphones fitted onto the racquets picked up the reverberations produced by the impact of the balls. These data were relayed by short wave (FM) to two receivers/transistors and from there to the Armory speakers. At the same time, the impact of the balls hitting the racquet strings triggered an automatic mechanism that shut off the 36 lights on the Armory ceiling one by one. — The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering fonds.

- CR+D call code: 9 EV OBJ 00032623 / O / 2 ÉLÉMENTS
- State in the CR+D Collection : ORIGINAL
- Fonds/Collections : 9 Evenings

Linked events:
- 9 Evenings : Theatre and Engineering, 1966, New York
- Open Score, 1966, New York