I never thought of sound as art. I always imagine art as something visual which can invoke all of our senses and broaden our thought. However, using sound to invoke all of our senses should count as art as well. I particularly like the end of the article where the guard stated that some people just cannot find peace. After reflecting about all of the sounds I hear each day at OSU, I agree that most sounds I hear do not represent peace. The buses, people on the phone, the silence in the library... all of these represent work. However, out of context and just listening to the sound, they could be viewed as peaceful if the visual was removed from the situation.
I wish the artists would explain in more detail about why they chose the sounds that they chose. I understand that often times it is better to come up with these thoughts yourself, but sound is one sense which most of us feel a visual context. This might be the point of their artwork, to make hearing the main sense instead of sight, but I think this would take a lot of getting used to.
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