My thesis investigates the possibilities of sound as material in the visual arts through means of semiology and phenomenology. My art work focuses on sound installation, performance and sculpture

McCormick, John Collins

Sound as material posits an art practice that resides between music and the plastic arts, but is in itself neither music nor the plastic arts. It is an art that shares territory with theater and language arts with a unique foundation of composition and audition, the power of hearing. Sound stripped of visual referent is more common than it seems. Listening to the radio or recorded music supports sound free of vision. In a visual art context however, it often demands the attention of listeners in a way traditional painting and sculpture do not. Sound as object in a gallery or museum moves quickly, and in its need to not be music or the plastic arts, avoids many of the signs that would allow comparison. Our perception of sound is often indebted to vision, as our culture is primarily based on this aspect of perception. Too often the visual signifier of a sound is misinterpreted for the sound itself. This misnomer is easily disputed by pointing out that my words are not my mouth, my tongue, lips, teeth, or even the ink on this page, but instead the real, or implied, sound constituted by the culmination of each of these tools

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