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The Art of Sound is a collaborative project between the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) and selected art galleries in regional Australia. It examines the intersections between sound and the visual arts and was inspired by the NFSA’s mandate to share its audiovisual collection with the people of Australia through touring projects, film festivals, screenings and exhibitions.

NFSA curators compiled a sound palette for the project – a package of Australian recordings that represent the breadth and diversity of the sound collection. The palette includes songs, speeches, experimental works, spoken word, orchestral compositions and environmental recordings. The palette is then shared with the partner galleries, whose curators explore both the sounds of the palette and the galleries’ own collections to create unique exhibitions, linking sound recordings to selected artworks that they feel complement each other. The final combination of sounds and artworks will be different at each gallery visited by The Art of Sound.

The project was launched in 2013. In the inaugural year, the NFSA partnered with two regional galleries: the Grafton Regional Gallery in northern NSW and the Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix in Margaret River, WA to create the first The Art of Sound free exhibitions.

The Art of Sound is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.