Artists in the MMAA Sound in Art | Art in Sound Exhibition Curator Theresa Downing describes the Sound in Art/Art in Sound exhibition as "...an auditory exploration of the power and nuance of sound." The artwork in this exhibition is comprised of both sound art pieces and visual art which incorporates sound as a critical element, and ranges from sound art, digital projection, installation, and sculpture to interactive artwork.Next week, we'll meet at the MMAA and tour the exhibition with curator Theresa. Here's some info about the artists in the exhibition: One of the works in the exhibition gives visitors the opportunity to contribute to a sound composition. Composer J. Anthony Allen and visual artist Christopher Baker’s Urban Echo interweaves sounds from four remote locations across the Twin Cities, and live sounds from within the gallery into an interactive projection and composition. To add your sound impressions call 612-501-2598 and respond to these questions: What do you hear? What do you want others to hear? Several artists incorporate natural sounds into their work. Shawn Decker's installation Green was inspired by the patterned sounds of insects and birds in Midwestern meadows. Minnesota artist and scientist Leif Brush combines science and nature in his sound pieces with recordings of normally undetectable natural sound phenomena such as the sounds of roots growing. Anne Wallace recorded the sounds of a Texas ranch -- including the sounds of animals and storms -- to create Clear Fork Soundscape. Minneapolis artist Abinadi Meza used recordings of snowflake and a mexmerizing video of snow falling in front of a streetlight at nights in Beacon. See more of Meza's work in sound and video at his website. Several artists use sound (and sometimes video) to examine cultural and political issues. Matthew Garrison's Autorange combines Department of Defense video and sound footage from recent international conflicts with clips from D.W. Griffith’s silent films of war and sound from American Revolutionary War reenactors. In The Past is Over, Helena Keeffe combines speeches written by 5th graders for George W. Bush and recorded by a professional voice impersonator along with the handwritten speeches and a celebratory cake. Sound also plays a role in family and personal relationships. Cheryl Wilgren Clyn's film three, for example, addresses the roles of generations within a family through repetitive imagery and a synched cacophony of sounds from manipulated recordings. The Storm, kinetic sculpture by Jack Pavlik Mike Hallenbeck encourages visitors to consider the soundscape of the museum with Sound Spandrel: MMAA, an acoustic architectural portrait of the “silent” gallery space. Jack F. X. Pavlik's sculpture The Storm, a large-scale kinetic sculpture made of a wide strip of steel undulating loudly on a steel frame, creates its own noise in the gallery.