El Arte Sonoro

Resumen

This article is a study which under the name "Sonorous Art" gathers the different practices of contemporary art in the last decades. All have in common the use of sonorous language. Examples related to this practice are set out in contrast to the different definitions that have been made of the term, and those authors who defend a lack of definition are quoted also. The different types of practices that fall within this term are also mentioned. It also questions whether this category can only be framed in visual arts or in music too. The article later deals with the background of sonorous art in the historical vanguards through the use of noise by: the futurist Luigi Russolo, the dadaist Marcel Duchamp and the Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna, in addition to the contributions of other avant-garde artists of the so-called "visual music". Later, two main lines of sonorous art practice are studied, firstly materialized in the so-called sound sculpture that proposed a dialogue shape-sound, by means of the object and the absence of the interpreter (in a musical sense) in order to have the receiver become creator. In second place, the sound installation that develops a connection between sound-space-time-listener, as appear in various works ranging from the importance of space to the context in an active dialogue with the listener. Finally, it presents other extensions of Sonorous Art, which now opens other expression possibilities for sonorous language in other fields of creativeness.