Sound Art Quotes

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face.

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

I like to create a sound and then leave it behind.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.

Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

I take sounds and change them into words.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

Music is the human treatment of sounds.

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

I'm a painter in sound.

I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.