How can sound, when defined as a pure form, be perceived? Is this art, or music? Is the understood term ‘audio-visual’ a form of video art or sound art? Is sound installation considered a form of sound art or installation art? I am drawn to sound-based work for its material limitations and unclear boundaries of form. I enjoy dealing with these qualities and applying them to my practice.

Signals exist in the form of electromagnetic waves. Scattered throughout our daily surroundings, they are a language used to deliver and communicate data information between machines. What is a possible visualization of this electromagnetic transfer process? What sort of image is available when broadcast signal ‘enters’ a radio? It is something that we are unable to see because it is beyond our sensory perceiving. Living in an environment filled with information, I make the choice to fragment parts of information back into abstract signals. The signals keep me from panicking; they enable me, through the use of sound, to undergo certain unfamiliar sensuous experiences.

In this dissertation several issues are discussed: our daily living environment and its relation to information, my concepts and reflections on sound in my works of sound art, sound performance, sound-images and sound installation.