Sound Art vs. Electroacoustic Music: Finding value for the heart and the brain

This text was a 'reaction' during a conference on scholarship relating to sound art and music and why their discourses are so dissimilar. The reaction was based both on the challenges and the interventions the author had heard during the colloquium. The key point is that sound art can be perceived (also) as music and that therefore musical discourse can be as relevant to both and, perhaps, fine art discourse offers value to discussions of other types of organised sound