Sonic Art & Sound Design- P29:Sonic art is a new art form, or rather, forms. As we shall see, it can encompass a wide range of activities, perhaps wider than almost any other art form. It is an unusual case, based upon a medium that has traditionally been regarded as inferior and subservient to other creative or expressive forms. | REALISATION AND PRESENTATION Exhibiting Introduction It is often argued that it is only when work is exhibited that it becomes art -it is this process that sets it apart as the work of a professional artist and not of the weekend painter whose work might never be seen outside the family or not we agree with this the presentation of works is something that preoccupies many artists and sonic artists are no exception lies in the unusually wide range of forms that their work takes and in the technical difficulties often associated with their presentation especially as a collection. There is no single solution to the latter issue although as we shall see there are a number of useful possibilities in the case of the former we are presented with a range that is at least as broad as that of fine art in general but one that brings with it a unique extra set of challenges. Successfully meeting these challenges is just as important in many ways as in the development and realisation of the work itself. Forms and issues What do we mean by exhibiting For our purposes I propose to take the rather contentious step of including performance within the umbrella term of exhibition . Others may argue that there are a number of profound differences in the way in which both artists and audiences approach performance and that it should constitute a separate category. However since both performance and exhibition in its more conventional sense are clearly aspects of the showing of sonic art works and it is more-or-less unique in having these aspects I think that we may reasonably approach them together. In looking at sound diffusion we have considered one of the ways in which sonic art can be presented. It is one that is unique to sonic art and is unusual in that it straddles the division between performance and exhibition forcing us to reconsider what we mean by these two apparently distinct categories. Diffusion tends to be used for the presentation of .
