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.

Grayson described sound sculpture in 1975 as "the integration of visual form and beauty with magical, musical sounds through participatory experience."^[1]

Sound artists[edit]

Sound sculptures with wikipedia articles[edit]

• Blackpool High Tide Organ


• Sea organ


• Singing Ringing Tree (Panopticons)


• A Sound Garden

Also listed under Category:Sound sculptures

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  Harry Bertoia, Textured Screen, 1954
  

  
  

  
  


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  Panopticon: The Singing Ringing Tree
  

  
  

  
  


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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[edit]

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  Audium A Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space


• Experimental musical instrument


• Field recording


• Sound map

Further reading[edit]

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  Paul Panhuysen (Ed.) (1986). Echo : the images of sound. Eindhoven: Apollohuis. .mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
  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.

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