Sound sculpture
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Sound sculpture (also known as sound art and sound installation) is a multimedia artform in which sculpture produces sound or, less often, the reverse. Most often sound sculpture artists were primarily either visual artists or composers, not having started out directly making sound sculpture.
Sound sculptures take the form of indoor sound installations, outdoor installations such as aeolian harps, automatons, or be more or less near conventional musical instruments. Cymatics has influenced sound sculpture. Sound sculpture is often site-specific.
Important artists include:
- Maryanne Amacher
- Ros Bandt
- Bernard Baschet and Francois Baschet, the Baschet Brothers
- Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
- Harry Bertoia
- Mario Bertoncini
- Ellen Fullman
- Alvin Lucier
- Paul Panhuysen
- Hans Jenny
- Bill Fontana
- Phil Kline
- Trimpin
- Michael Bashaw
See also
External links
- [Baschet: Les Sculpture Sonores]
- [Het Apollohuis]
- [The Sound Sculpture Page]
- [Experimental Musical Instruments]
- [Home Page of Bill Fontana]
- [Cymatics: the study of wave phenomena]
- [Bill Fontana's musical sculptures: the shadows of John Cage]
- [Sound Art at MASS MoCA - In Your Ear: Hearing Art in the 21st Century]
- [vibröfiles: Sound art cd magazine]
- [Ken Rinaldo sound sculpture and robotic environments]
- [Michael Bashaw's Theatre of Sound: Sound Sculpture Concert]
- [Poulpe online & physical sound scultpture]
- [Circuit magazine's portrait of Mario Bertoncini]
Further reading
- Panhuysen, Paul (Ed.) (1986). Echo : the images of sound. Eindhoven: Apollohuis. ISBN 9071638030.
- Grayson, John (1975). Sound sculpture : a collection of essays by artists surveying the techniques, applications, and future directions of sound sculpture. Vancouver, B.C.: A.R.C. Publications. ISBN 0889850003.
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