Sound sculpture

Sound sculpture (related to sound art and sound installation) is an intermedia and time based art form in which sculpture or any kind of art object produces sound, or the reverse (in the sense that sound is manipulated in such a way as to create a sculptural as opposed to temporal form or mass). Most often sound sculpture artists were primarily either visual artists or composers, not having started out directly making sound sculpture. Cymatics and kinetic art has influenced sound sculpture. Sound sculpture is sometimes site-specific.

Sound artists include:

• Maryanne Amacher
• Baschet Brothers
• Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
• Harry Bertoia
• Alexander Calder
• Henry Dagg
• Hugh Davies
• Bill Fontana
• Terry Fox
• Ellen Fullman
• Bernhard Gál
• Rolf Gehlhaar
• Nigel Helyer
• Christopher Janney
• Hans Jenny
• Phil Kline
• Yuri Landman
• Louise Lawler
• Alvin Lucier
• Bruce Nauman
• Hans Otte
• Paul Panhuysen
• Liz Phillips
• Amy Pickles
• Manuel Rocha Iturbide
• Stan Shaff
• Derek Shiel
• Jean Tinguely
• Trimpin
• Stephen Vitiello
• Peter Vogel

Sound sculptures with wikipedia articles

• Blackpool High Tide Organ
• Sea organ
• Singing Ringing Tree (Panopticons)

See also

• Audium A Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space
• Field recording

Gallery

Further reading

• Paul Panhuysen (Ed.) (1986). Echo : the images of sound. Eindhoven: Apollohuis. ISBN 90-71638-03-0.
• John Grayson (1975). Sound sculpture : a collection of essays by artists surveying the techniques, applications, and future directions of sound sculpture. Vancouver: A.R.C. Publications. ISBN 0-88985-000-3.