What is Sound?

Each sound as is created propagates amongst the hard Newtonian billiard of matter, adding to the eternal din from which the cosmic maker, at the end of his creation can discern every act, word and deed. Things that make or have sound of some sort and that every activity in the world has an aural component.

 

How has it been used in culture and society?

It has been used in “Sound Art” exhibits as an art form for example, music, kinetic sculpture, instruments activated by wind or played by the public, conceptual art, sound effects, recorded readings of prose or poetry, visual artworks which also make sound, music automatons, film, video, technological demonstrations, acoustic re-enactments, interactive computer programs which produce sound. The invention of the sonograph that observed multiplying sounds and the discovery of three sounds when a recorded sound was played back. In various music cultures, a variety of sounds and figurations assumed the role of creating the presence of silence.

 

What makes an art?

Art in sound art is not in the sense of crafts but fine art and art forms like “steel art” which was composed of steel sculpture combined with steel guitar music along with anything else with steel in it. In art, the medium is not often the message. Art is also a form of aesthetic experience.

 

How does advancement in audio technology affect our sense?

It made our senses more sensitive. For example, surface noise in the sound cinema acted as a backdrop for continued attention and suspended disbelief. Of which the delicate buzz during a film recorded silence whose purpose it is subliminally to confirm the presence of a reproduction underway, thereby establishing the minimum existence of some type of presence. It also intertwines within and among our perception of sound, memory and communication.