UK Sound Artists Lead the Way

Britain’s experimental musicians are now what the YBAs were for visual art in the 90s. “While pop seems to have run out of new ideas, preferring to find witty ways to reinvent the sounds of decades past, these artists are pushing the boundaries of what music can do, and melding it with technology, art, architecture, film and even comedy. ‘Sound art’ is finding a home in galleries and venues that have identified an appetite among the listening public for music that gives the brain, as well as the ears, something to work on.”