Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBelle, sound art as a practice “harnesses, describes, analyzes, performs, and interrogates the condition of sound and the process by which it operates. Soon more!
Photo: “Forty-Part Motet” by Janet Cardiff (photo: courtesty of the artist and Stockholm New Music)
Lachrymae
Artists Rowena Pearce and Tim Millar
Composer Helen Ottaway
Sound designer Alastair Goolden
Voices Melanie Pappenheim
and Caroline Radcliffe
Violin Anne Wood
Lachrymae exists as an indoor interactive installation, an outdoor site-responsive installation and as a virtual sound walk located in Chapel Coppice. Ashley Chase Estate, near Abbotsbury in Dorset.