Sound Gestalt

Abstract

This article talks about artistic practices that use distributed sound as main artistic material, considering it an expansion of the concept of sculpture. We understand the term expansion as Rosalind Krauss used it to talk about the sculpture of the 60´s: an expanded field where the sculpture was expressed itself as not-landscape and not-architecture, spreading out dialectically and thus establishing other new structural possibilities. The distributed sound also opens the way to creating new structures: as it is also involved with the temporal condition of the sound, we can speak about shapes; it´s a shape understood as a forming process, as growth, as externalization of dynamic forces. The concept of shape as we are developing recalls the Gestalt definition developed by Carl Einstein : dialectical process as a result of tensions, which is related with the concepts of noise, of event, of not continuity; a process related with verbal action and with the destruction of the semantic unity: an element that could generate new connections and therefore, new meanings.