Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist born in Luxembourg in 1965 and that country's internationally best known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney, Australia. Despite his relatively small output and his reclusiveness, he is also considered one of Australia's leading composers. His music is inspired by the starry night sky in the Australian Outback and by Aboriginal art.
Lentz in 2017
Interior of the Cobar Sound Chapel
Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBelle, sound art as a practice "harnesses, describes, analyzes, performs, and interrogates the condition of sound and the process by which it operates."
Janet Cardiff's Forty Part Motet (2001) in the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Georges Lentz's 43-hour String Quartet(s) at the Cobar Sound Chapel (2022), with loudspeakers in the four walls
Harry Bertoia, Textured Screen, 1954
Panopticon: The Singing Ringing Tree