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 have influenced sound sculpture. Sound sculpture is sometimes site-specific.

Sound artists

Sound sculptures with wikipedia articles

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

Gallery

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  Harry Bertoia, Textured Screen, 1954

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  Panopticon: The Singing Ringing Tree

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  The Blackpool High Tide Organ

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  The Cristal Baschet

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  Yuri Landman, Moodswinger, 2006

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  2 electrocardiophones & electroencephalophone

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  Bašić's sea organ

See also

• Audium A Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space
• Experimental musical instrument
• Field recording
• Sound map

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.

Sound sculptures and installations Blackpool High Tide Organ Hydraulophone Kendall Band Musical road Playing the Building Sea organ Singing Ringing Tree Wave Organ