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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 [...].