ABSTRACT
Technology changed the way sound art could be done in a gallery. If you wanted continuous sound you either had to do it kinetically, with a machine of some kind, or you would have a tape loop that ran round the gallery. But now you just have the digital thing, and you run a loop. Sound art with loudspeakers seems to be what people use mostly, loudspeakers and playback technology, and the loop is usually tailored – maybe in a lot of cases it is at most ten minutes, not four hours. You can enter it and leave it. It does not develop into anything else.
