During this second class in the Introduction to Sound Arts unit, we’ve gone through different types of practices and definitions with the field of Sound Arts. We also accessed to the library to understand its mechanism in order to loan books, and explored the audio section selecting a choice of them.

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Sonic Environment – Understanding what happens sonically in the environment is really important, how physically the sound moves into space through waves is for me the fascinating side of sound.

Sound design – Creating sound for different media like cinema or video games is an art itself and a growing professional field. I’m greatly interested in digital and analog sound and the tools that we can make use for to create great sounding experiences.

Synthesis – The use of synthesisers is an important milestone within the world of audio and music, how musicians all over the world have researched the combination of electricity and audio to create our desired synthesised electronic sounds.

Mandy-Suzanne Wong Sound Art Definition

I found this text really interesting, it brings us back again to the idea that Sound Art involves many different practices and as she explains we don’t need to find an explanation of it, or it will be always a complicated question like ‘What is Art?’ for example. Simply, I’d leave the term Sound Art as an area of study which focuses in the use of sound for art, design or entertainment purposes.