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These artists—spanning decades, mediums, and intentions—challenge the way we perceive sound itself. Some works might feel alien, shimmering with algorithmic coldness, while others invite a nostalgia for a world before the constant hum of machines. Yet all are driven by a shared instinct: to map the landscapes of experience through sound.
We will delve into works from Alvin Lucier’s explorations of auditory decay to Ryoji Ikeda’s machine precise data-sonics. We’ll chart back to the beginning, exploring Pierre Schaeffer’s musique concrète. We’ll traverse landscapes where light, touch, and sound converge, such as Olafur Eliasson’s immersive modern installations and Zimoun’s mechanical symphonies.
Along the way, we’ll unravel the stories behind their creations, trace the philosophy guiding their methods, and occasionally marvel at how utterly bizarre and magnificent the human impulse toward sound-making truly is.
Soundplume is an invitation to pause and to pay attention. Not just to these works but to the soundscapes you occupy every day, to the unnoticed symphony of your existence. This isn’t about artists, or even art, really. It’s about the way sound transforms us—subtly, insistently, and sometimes without our permission.
Sound is everywhere and nowhere, a ubiquitous companion that rarely gets its due. We live submerged in it, like goldfish in a bowl, rarely bothering to ask where the water comes from—or what it means to live in it. The artists in this series—call them composers, sound sculptors, or, if you must, “experimentalists”—take that same bowl of sound and tilt it, ever so slightly, letting the contents spill, refract, and swirl into forms we can’t help but notice. They don’t just make noise; they ask us to consider what noise is, and by extension, what we are in its presence.
Soundplume was started in 2020 by Jack Norman from New York City.
To get in touch, please contact jack@soundplume [dot] com
