Sound Art is a term commonly referred to the concept of sound as an art medium, but in terms more realistic, Sound Arts can encompass a wide range of practices. To pin down Sound Art to a certain definition is clearly not possible but different academics and theorists have debated and analyzed what Sound Art is and which are its limits. Sound Art: Origins, Development and Ambiguities is an article by the American sound art practitioner and journalist Alan Licht (2009). In this article he explores the origins of sound arts and practices made by notorious artists with the purpose of tracing down Sound Arts boundaries and capabilities.

Licht argues in this article that sound art and experimental music are two completely different practices and that in the modern medium they are commonly defined as the same thing. Experimental music intents to break the rules of music but it still haves the philosophy of music. Sound arts in the other hand follows the philosophy of visual art, sound art is intended to work the same way as a painting or a sculpture does, without a time factor and exposed in different mediums. Experimental music still haves the time factor and meter, it has a beginning and an end, it goes from left to right, while sound arts in the other hand stands perpetually in its environment; its duration is decided by the person experiencing it.

I found this article very interesting and it brought to my attention two important things. First it introduced me to different sound art practitioners that I had never heard before and that I thought they were really inspiring, like Max Neuhaus and Rolf Julius. The second thing was the concept of sound art not having a time factor. This inspired me to find a way to implement this in my compositions, to escape the music linear factor and to see sound from another perspective. Currently Im readying Alan Licht (2019) book Sound Arts Revisited, to investigate in depth the concepts mention on the article.