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Sound art is a loosely associated group of media art practices that concern sound and listening as their focus. Some are rooted in early 20th Art Music while others are derived from non-musical and architectural origins. From the Western art historical tradition early examples include the Luigi Russolo Intonarumori or noise machines created by Luigi Russolo, and subsequent experiments by Dadaists, Surrealists, the Situationist International, and in Fluxus happenings. Experimentations and more serious sound works have continued to grow out of these early ideas being exacerbated by the rise of digital technology and it's accompanying conveniences. Because of the diversity of Sound Art, there is often debate about whether Sound Art falls inside and outside of both the visual art and experimental music canon.

Like many genres of Contemporary Art, Sound Art is often very interdisciplinary, commonly engaging psychoacoustics, digital audio technologies, found sound, and extended techniques of musical instruments in conjunction with the standard set visual issues found in Contemporary Art.

Though some sound artists are inspired by the history and practice of experimental or Avant Garde music it is important to note that works of sound art are often not considered "music" for a variety of formal, conceptual, and political reasons.

Other artistic lineages from which sound art emerges are spoken word, avant garde poetry, and experimental theater. Early practitioners include Kurt Schwitters, Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, and Henri-Martin Barzun.

Contents 1 Sound Artists 2 See also 3 Further reading 4 External links

Further information: List of sound artists

• List of topics related to Sound Art
• Sonification
• custom-made instruments
• list of custom-made instrument builders

• Cox, Christoph and Daniel Warner (Editors) (2004) "Audio Culture". ISBN 978-0826416155.
• de la Motte, Helga; Leitner, Bernhard; and Schulz, Bernd (Editors) (2003). Resonances. ISBN 3-933257-86-7.
• Jim Drobnick, Jim (Editor) (2004). Aural Cultures. ISBN 0-920397-80-8.

• SoundArtMuseum in Rome
• Sound Arts Studio San Francisco
• Sonic Arts Network
• APO33 - sound art collective
• UBUWEB - Essays and Audio Art examples to Download
• Gramophonies
• WPS1 - Art Radio
• Sound Art links page
• Short Circuit: Sound Art and The Museum by Brandon LaBelle
• GUARDIAN: Prick up your ears, Stephen Poole on sound art Saturday November 17, 2001
• Return to Form: Neo-Modernism in Sound Art by Christoph Cox
• Lost in Translation: Sound in the Discourse of Synaesthesia by Christoph Cox
• VIBRÖ: Exhibitions of sound art
• Sonification of Mobile and Wireless Communications by Martin John Callanan
• Diapason sound art gallery, New York
• Singuhr Sound Gallery in Parochial Berlin, Germany
• Sonambiente 2006 (Berlin Sound Art Festival)
• Generator Online resource for sound artists and sound art related projects.
• Sound Art at MASS MoCA: In Your Ear: Hearing Art in the 21st Century
• New Adventures in Sound Art
• Opsound - NY based Open Source Sound Project
• The Sound Sculpture Page by KOV
• World Soundscape Project
• Gruenrekorder :: Platform for AudioArt
• AIR BORNE permanent sound art installation in Berlin-Adlershof by Karlheinz Essl and Stefan Krüskemper
• Artkrush.com feature on Sound Art (January 2006)