Sound Art

The New Landscape in Art and Science is a 1956 book by György Kepes. The Hungarian-born artist, art theorist and educator taught along Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the New Bauhaus school in Chicago and later was the founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the MIT. At the institute he was...

These pictures, drawn by a harmonograph, may better be described as pictures of music. A harmonograph is a mechanical device that uses pen...

The exhibition focuses on the convergence of electronic sound creation and visual arts. Some works give a graphic, architectural and physical presence to sound, others reveal the sound produced by …

Most of us are used to experiencing sound as an exclusively auditory experience. But scientist and photography enthusiast Linden Gledhill isn't most of us. He sees it. And he's happy to show how. The Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical biochemist has been playing with cymatics for a few years now, and he's come a long way.

A seductive shape, recognisable from our being which relaxes the troubled thought and leads to mental equilibrium.

Image 46 of 105 from gallery of Bernhard Leitner: Sound Spaces. © Atelier Leitner - Cylinder Space 1974

In his ongoing series of relief sculptures titled “Wallwave Vibrations,” artist Loris Cecchini appears to liquify the walls of art galleries by turning them into pools of undulating waves caused by sound. Each piece is first digitally produced and then fabricated with polyester resin before being seamlessly applied to a flat surface. He remarks about the pieces: In my most recent sculptures, the ‘Wallwave Vibrations’ series, one loses the element of the object proper. More