Over the last few weeks I have been reading many different articles on sound and its importance in the media world. The article that stuck out in my mind was The Art of Noise by David Toop. I liked the ideas of braking down types of sounds, music, art, and noise. It really got me thinking about the differences and similarities between sound art, music, and sound used in art. I can’t see noise as just noise, but as the bases for creating new and exciting types of sound media.
David Toop talks about the types of sound media and gives many good examples of different sound artist and how they are using noise to create their works. “Sound is ubiquitous, unstoppable, immersive, the agency through which spoken language is understood and music is absorbed” (Toop 1). Without sound it would be very hard if not imposable for us to communicate and interact with one another. Toop talks about sound as a “function of time” describing our surroundings, directing our attention and increasing environmental awareness. Next Toop compares sound to things such as visual media showing sounds ability to always stay with us and visual arts flaw in always being a fixed media. Lastly Toop goes into great detail explaining how different artist us sound to crate music, sound art, and sound in art.
The main thing that this article has got me to do is look at my own artwork, take a steep back, and decide what direction I want to take my sounds. Music and sound art use sound as there big picture creating and conveying the ideas through sounds and sounds only. On the other hand sound in art is more of and add-on to the bigger picture. I think that it would be very interesting to us my recordings to try and make a type of music and find the natural rhythms in nature. The article has helped me discover the many possibilities of sound in the natural world.
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