the.com/sound sculpture

means An artwork built to generate or shape sound as its primary material — an object or installation where hearing it is part of experiencing it, not incidental.

from A 20th-century compound stitched together from two older words: 'sound,' from Old French 'son' and Latin 'sonus' (a noise), and 'sculpture,' from Latin 'sculpere,' to carve or chisel. The term emerged as artists moved past sculpture's old job of standing still and looking good, letting pieces hum, clang, resonate, or respond to wind and touch — so the label simply grew to keep up with the art.