Sound Art

Among its forerunners, the Futurist Luigi Russolo built noise machines from 1913 that imitated the sounds of machinery and war, and John Cage's 4′33″ (1952) is a score of four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence that lets listeners hear the sounds already in the room. Visual artists and composers went on to explore sound through electronic media and space, and a sound work need not have images, a beginning, or an end. In Seoul, the group 2mc1dj presents “screenless films” at Art Sonje, radio-drama-like works heard in front of a blank screen, while Kim Jun recorded wind, leaves, and footsteps with children from a children's hospital and made them into works.

Stand or sit in a few different places in the work and listen to how the sound changes; notice the moments when it stops, too.

• Sound art 聲音藝術→Same topic in Taipei