Response to "Bring Da Noise: A Brief Survey of Sound Art"

I really don't like sound. I don't know what to do with it and I have no idea how to work with it. I've tried several times and it's always just been a battle that I end up losing. This article did not give me a love for sound in anyway, but I do think I have a better understanding of what it is now. I really enjoyed getting an overall summery of sound as an art form. I was really shocked to see its been around since 1902, but then I still feel as though it doesn't really have any parameters so you can argue that its been around as long as sound has been around. This article definitely gave me something to grasp and think about when I'm thinking about my own work.
It was interesting to see how the medium changed as the world changed. I also found it interesting that this article stated that sound art has used technology in its practice, but doesn’t make the work about the technology. I keep being torn between whether this art form is very pure without a lot of changes. Or if its forced, a kind of left over from music and spoken word that can’t fit anywhere else.
I was very surprised to see how many visual artists have worked with sound. I had no idea that people like Picasso or Duchamp worked with sound. I really like the idea of the Fluxus artists, which would make sense that so many artists overlapped practices.