Artikel van Douglas Kahn over zijn boek Noise, Water, Meat waarin hij opent met de volgende zinnen:

I am not particularly fond of the term sound art. I prefer the more generic sound in the arts. My last book was subtitled a history of sound in the arts ; there was no mention of sound art and not only because it was outside the historical scope of the book. Sound in the arts is a huge topic, especially when one keeps in mind the synthetic nature of the arts, i.e., the various intersecting social, cultural, and environmental realities wittingly and unwittingly embodied in any one of the innumerable factors that go into producing, experiencing, and understanding a particular work. Sound art is a smaller topic, if what is meant is that moment that artists, in the general sense of the word, began calling what they were doing sound art . In my experience, artists started to use sound art in this way during the 1980s, although there were plenty of artists doing similar things with sound earlier and not necessarily calling what they did sound art . The topic becomes smaller still if what is meant is the term that refers to what began a few years ago, and it is this meaning that has become well known.

Mijn belang in het stuk is natuurlijk: How to narrow down my research.
link naar de PDF: kahn-2006-Sound Art, Art, Music