ABSTRACT
This essay introduces musicians, composers, musicologists, and scholars working in related disciplines to the use of sound in new media art of the twenty-first century. The focus is on examples from recent art that cohesively integrate sonic elements through electronics. Electronic signals allow a single creator to work with sound and visual information equally as numerical data, generated through various devices or machines. Digitization of both sonic and visual elements has profoundly changed artistic form in both fields, as demonstrated by the work of artists such as Haroon Mirza, Ryoji Ikeda, and Carsten Nicolai.
