AUDIBLE: A discernible sound-moment—a brief fragment or extended passage containing enough perceptible information to have a distinct identity.
SOUNDING: The sound produced through the activation of a material or system.
TRACING: A sounding produced by progressively following a path through the sonic possibilities of a material or system.
(Stone Guitars, Tracing the Radio Landscape, Alison Knowles’s Rice & Beans with Charles Curtis, the mother at the other end of the line)
MAPPING: A sounding that identifies the resonant frequencies characterizing a space or system.
SURFACE MAPPING: A sounding that reveals how resonant vibration varies across a surface.
SMALL SOUNDS: Amplified subtle soundings.
NOISE MELODY: A succession of audibles that makes their differences more perceptible through comparison.
SOUND-PORTRAIT: A composition that reveals the sonic character of a person or place.
GATED SOUND PIECE: A composition in which the intensity of one sound shapes the audible presence of another.
SOUND-TEXT: Language gathered or composed according to its sonic qualities.
SOUND-VIDEO: Moving images that reveal or extend our experience of sound, actual or implied.
SOUND SCULPTURE: A sculptural form whose character emerges through sound or vibration.
ELECTROACOUSTIC INTERPLAY: The interaction of electronically mediated sound with the acoustical character of a space. Think of FM.
SOUNDSCAPE: A sonic environment as experienced in context.
SPATIALIZATION: Shaping where sounds are perceived and how they move through space.
HYPER-SOUND: Audible sound generated in the air by a narrow beam of ultrasound.
SOUND ART: An artistic practice that uses sound to reveal relationships and create possibilities for listening.