Article: Reverb time: Christoph Cox on "Sonambiente".(sound art)(Sonambiente 1996)

DURING THE WORLD CUP-obsessed summer of 2006, Berlin may have been the epicenter of soccer culture, but for decades it has been the unofficial global capital of sound art, which the city's institutions have steadfastly and proudly supported. In 1980, the Akademie der Kunste presented "Fur Augen und Ohren" (For Eyes and Ears), a landmark exhibition that provided a historical backdrop for the emergence of sound art as a distinct category and introduced a generation of artists for whom sound was the primary medium. Berlin's commercial galleries have been friendly to sound since the late '70s, when Rolf Langebartels opened Galerie Giannozzo in the Charlottenburg district. ...

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