Sound sculpture (related to sound art and sound installation) is a multimedia artform in which sculpture produces sound or the reverse. Most often sound sculpture artists were primarily either visual artists or composers, not having started out directly making sound sculpture. This Manual of Style has the simple purpose of making things easy to read by following a consistent format — it is a style guide. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ... Sound is a disturbance of mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a longitudinal wave, and therefore is a mechanical wave. ...

Cymatics has influenced sound sculpture. Sound sculpture is sometimes site-specific. Cymatics is the study of wave phenomena. ... Nef pour quatorze reines by Rose-Marie Goulet, a memorial to the École Polytechnique Massacre, featuring sculptural elements integrated into a specially landscaped site Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. ...

Important artists include:

• Maryanne Amacher
• Ros Bandt
• Bernard Baschet and Francois Baschet, the Baschet Brothers
• Michael Bashaw
• Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
• Harry Bertoia
• Mario Bertoncini
• Jeremy Boyle
• Martin John Callanan
• Roland Dahinden
• Ellen Fullman
• Rolf Gehlhaar
• Christopher Janney
• Yuri Landman
• Alvin Lucier
• Bruce Nauman
• Paul Panhuysen
• Hans Jenny
• Bill Fontana
• Phil Kline
• Trimpin
• Ela Lamblin

Maryanne Amacher (born 1943) is an American composer of sound installations. ... The sound sculptor Bernard Baschet (of the Baschet Brothers was born in Paris in 1917. ... The sound sculptor François Baschet, of the Baschet Brothers, was born in Paris in 1920. ... The Baschet Brothers, Francois and Bernard, a sculptor and an engineer, respectively, collaborate on creating sound sculptures and inventing instruments. ... Harry Bertoia (b. ... Martin John Callanan (b. ... Ellen Fullman (born 1957) is a composer. ... Rolf Gehlhaar (born 30 December 1943 in Breslau [now WrocÅ‚aw], Poland) is an American composer. ... Christopher Janney (1950- ) is an American installation artist and musician known for his work on the interrelation of architecture and sound and for creating sound sculptures, interactive sound/art installations. ... Yuri Landman (born 1-2-1973) is a dutch multi disciplined artist most well known for his work as an experimental luthier, but also active as a comic artist, illustrator, musician, singer, graphic designer and furniture designer. ... Alvin Lucier Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of music and sound installations exploring acoustic phenomena, especially resonance, as well as a former member of the Sonic Arts Union along with Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. ... Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. ... Paul Panhuysen is a composer, visual artist, and the director of Het Apollohuis. ... Hans Jenny (1904-1972) was physician and natural scientist who is considered the father of cymatics, the study of wave phenomena. ... Bill Fontana (born USA 1947) is known internationally for his pioneering experiments in sound. ... Phil Kline is a composer. ... Trimpin (b. ...

See also

• Custom-made instrument
• Soundscape
• Field recording

A custom made instrument is a musical instrument that is considered to be of ones own design and/or a modification or extension of a defined guideline of a certain instrument. ... A soundscape is an acoustic environment or an environment created by sound. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

External links

• Baschet: Les Sculpture Sonores
• Het Apollohuis
• The Sound Sculpture Page
• Gramophonies
• Experimental Musical Instruments
• Home Page of Bill Fontana
• Cymatics: the study of wave phenomena
• FX Lord - Tool for software based sound sculpturing
• Bill Fontana's musical sculptures: the shadows of John Cage
• Sound Art at MASS MoCA - In Your Ear: Hearing Art in the 21st Century
• vibröfiles: Sound art cd magazine
• Ken Rinaldo sound sculpture and robotic environments
• Michael Bashaw's Theatre of Sound: Sound Sculpture Concert
• Poulpe online & physical sound scultpture
• Circuit magazine's portrait of Mario Bertoncini
• kinetic sound sculpture with dance

Further reading

• Panhuysen, Paul (Ed.) (1986). Echo : the images of sound. Eindhoven: Apollohuis. ISBN 90-71638-03-0.
• Grayson, John (1975). Sound sculpture : a collection of essays by artists surveying the techniques, applications, and future directions of sound sculpture. Vancouver, B.C.: A.R.C. Publications. ISBN 0-88985-000-3.