How much do you know about Sound Art?

Sound Art: An Overview

• Sound art uses sound as the primary medium or material for artistic activity.
• Sound art can be interdisciplinary and used in hybrid forms.
• Sound art is used in various artistic lineages, such as conceptual art, minimalism, site-specific art, sound poetry, electro-acoustic music, spoken word, avant-garde poetry, sound scenography, and experimental theatre.
• The first published use of the term sound art was found in Something Else Press on the cover of their 1974 Yearbook.
• The first use of the term as the title of an exhibition at a major museum was in 1979's "Sound Art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
• Sound installation is an intermedia and time-based art form that includes the sound element and, therefore, the time element.
• Sound installation can be site-specific and made either in closed or open spaces.
• Sound installations use sound sources placed at different points in space or interactive art technology.
• Sound sculpture is an intermedia and time-based art form in which sculpture or any kind of art object produces sound.
• Sound sculpture artists were primarily either visual artists or composers.
• Sound sculptures can be site-specific and influenced by cymatics and kinetic art.
• Sound sculptures can modify the surrounding soundscape and impact how listeners perceive their environment.
• The integration of visual form and beauty with magical, musical sounds through participatory experience is a key aspect of sound sculpture.