For the past five years I've been looking at art and writing about what I see. But I've also been listening. Does art have a distinctive sound?
The Sound of Art, 2010
OCTOBER 1, 2010
For the past five years I've been looking at art and writing about what I see. But I've also been listening. Does art have a distinctive sound? Sometimes I think I could be in a remote cabin in Maine, and still instantly recognize the sound of an art video or a performance piece. Yet the things I hear in galleries and performance spaces don't seem to share any formal qualities – they run the gamut from noise to melody, recitation to wordless grunts.
