Aug 4, 2016 · Sound art is having a moment, and we bring you 12 exciting artists using the medium to explore perception, politics, and the effects of sound.

Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus.

Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary time-based medium or material. [1] Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. [2]

Sound experiments emerged from conceptual art and minimalism and had different trajectories spanning from sound poetry over the spoken word to sound installation. We selected eight …

Jul 3, 2018 · Here’s a list of 10 artists, in no particular order, to look out for: 1. Max Neuhaus, “Times Square” Neuhaus is an example of an artist who works primarily with site-specific sound art.

Artists can now create visual images in response to sounds, allow the audience to control the art through pressure pads, sensors and voice activation, and in examples like Jem Finer’s Longplayer, extend a sound so that it resonates for a thousand years.

Aug 4, 2016 · We have compiled a list of 12 sound artists, in no particular order, expanding the way that viewers engage with art, whether through performance, installation, analogue machines, custom instruments, field recordings, or something in between.

Explore contemporary sound artists and immersive sound art by Susan Philipsz, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Haroon Mirza, Samson Young, and more. These are the sound ins...

Aug 10, 2013 · MoMA’s first major exhibition of sound art presents work by 16 of the most innovative contemporary artists working with sound.

Philosopher Christoph Cox traces the history of sound art from the invention of audio recording in the late 19th century to the genre-bending compositions of John Cage to the explosion of sound installation in the 1960s. Cox surveys a range of sonic practices, revealing how they resemble and resist approaches in the visual arts.