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MICHAEL BURTCH: ARTIST

SCULPTOR, SOUND ARTIST, WRITER, SET DESIGNER

SOUND ART: EXPLAINED

Sound Art as explained by Wikipedia: 

Sound art is an artistic discipline in which sound is utilised as a primary medium. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. Sound art can be considered as being an element of many areas such as acousticspsychoacousticselectronicsnoise music, audio media, found or environmental sound, soundscapes, explorations of the human body, sculpturearchitecturefilm or video and other aspects of the current discourse of contemporary art.[1]

In Western art, early examples include Luigi Russolo's Intonarumori or noise intoners (1913), and subsequent experiments by DadaistsSurrealists, the Situationist International, and in Fluxus happenings. Because of the diversity of sound art, there is often debate about whether sound art falls within the domains of visual art or experimental music, or both.[citation needed] Other artistic lineages from which sound art emerges are conceptual artminimalismsite-specific artsound poetryelectro-acoustic musicspoken wordavant-garde poetry, sound scenography,[2] and experimental theatre.[