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Sound art. Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material. [1] Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. [2] According to Brandon LaBelle, sound art as a practice "harnesses, describes, analyzes, performs, and interrogates the ...
Sound Sculpture. Sound sculpture music is exactly that: the music of a sculpture producing sound. Although the expression is used at times to refer to the act of sculpting raw sound through electroacoustical processes (as in musique concrète), here "sound sculpture" designates music obtained by playing a resonating physical structure. Sound ...
- The Singing Ringing Tree // Burnley, England
- The Wave Organ // San Francisco
- Blackpool High Tide Organ // Blackpool, England
- A Sound Garden // Seattle
- The Pendleton Spinnradl // Cincinnati
- Harry Bertoia's Sounding Sculptures // Bally, Pennsylvania
- Sea Organ // Zadar, Croatia
Looming above Burnley, the Singing Ringing Tree is made of galvanized steel pipes. As the wind blows through the pipes, the nearly 10-foot-tallsculpture creates eerie sounds in several octaves. When it was completed in 2006, the sculpture improved the aesthetic of the area in more ways than one—before architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu created the...
Like the Singing Ringing Tree, San Francisco’s Wave Organ also uses nature and pipes to make beautiful music. But in this case, the element used is water, not wind. Peter Richards developed the idea for the Wave Organ in the 1970s and tapped sculptor George Gonzales to help him bring the concept to life. The installation was finished in 1986 and ha...
Can’t make it to San Francisco? Then try for Blackpool, England. That’s where you’ll find the Blackpool High Tide Organ, a “musical manifestation of the sea” made of concrete, steel, zinc and copper that was created in 2002. High tide pushes air up into inlet pipes, which causes organ pipes to make sounds in a B-flat series. “Its sound is more ambi...
First things first: Yes, the band Soundgarden is named after this sculpture. Created by sculptor Douglas Hollis in 1983, Seattle’s “A Sound Garden” consists of twelve 20-footsteel towers with wind vanes and organ pipes attached to them. When the wind blows, the vanes rotate the pipes in that direction and haunting sounds emanate from the sculpture—...
The next time you catch yourself in downtown Cincinnati, keep an eye out for the Pendleton Spinnradl—at 14 feet tall, you can’t miss them. In order to see the two collaborative sculptures at work, visitors simply turn a handcrank that makes them sing. One plays “Coney Island Dip,” written by a Cincinnati composer, and the other appropriately plays ...
Harry Bertoia wanted to create an instrument that anyone could immediately play without years of training and study. During one of his experiments, Bertoia was bending a wire and it broke, striking another one. The melodious noise it made immediately stood out to him. What sound would it make if hundreds of wires struck each other? That question in...
Like some of the other sculptures on our list, the Sea Organ, created by architect Nikola Bašić, also relies on the movement of water to create sound. But its structure is a little different—a series of stone steps disappear down into the water, and beneath them, 35 pipesmake noise based on the waves and air pressure. There are five pipes per step,...
- Stacy Conradt
Since the introduction of digital technology sound art has undergone a radical transformation. 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.
- Tessa Solomon
- Luigi Russolo, Gran Concerto Futuristico (1917) Luigi Russolo is may be best known as a painter associated with the Futurist movement in Italy, but he’s also considered one of the first experimental noise artists, if not the very first one altogether.
- Marcel Duchamp, Erratum Musical (1913) Marcel Duchamp was fascinated by the potential to visualize sound, and he was even once quoted as saying, “One can look at seeing; one can not hear hearing.”
- John Cage, 4’33” (1952) American composer John Cageand Marcel Duchamp were artistic collaborators, both fixated on redefining the boundaries of music. For his masterpiece, Cage mined the potential of silence, revolutionizing sound art and performance in the process.
- Bill Fontana, Distant Trains (1984) By the 1960s and early 1970s, advances in electronic media had expanded the potential for visual artists and composers working at the intersection of sound and sculpture.
Christine Sun Kim, Cloe Readings (excerpt) 2015. 4-channel video, 25:53 min. Courtesy of the artist. California-born, Berlin-based sound artist Christine Sun Kim takes a humanistic approach to sound that resonates with the concept of voice. Born deaf, the artist recalls that she was taught to believe that sound could not be a part of her life.
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Aug 22, 2019 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Aug 22, 2019 - Art - 208 pages. The first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current research since the book's initial ...
