The Medium Is The Form

The Francois Bayle installment of the Avant Garde Project called to mind Heather Frasch's installation from ARTSaha! 2007:

Heather Frasch's Speaker Objects are a way of bringing one of her favorite mediums for sound generation into plain sight. As an electronic music composer, she spends a great deal of time in the studio generating sounds with found objects like metal and glass, then sculpting those recorded sounds into finished pieces.

By recasting them as Speaker Objects, Heather is sharing the musical potential of these objects with the public for the first time in a way that they are invited to see and touch. The objects replace the vibrating component of a speaker. Sounds are projected through them and transmuted by their physical properties.