Bill Fontana

Bill Fontana is an American sound artist, born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1947. Since 1976 he has called his works sound sculptures: installations and radio pieces that use sounds from the built and natural environment as musical material, picked up with microphones, hydrophones and accelerometers. Fontana studied at the New School for Social Research in New York. Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns (1981) used microphones placed around San Francisco Bay to pick up the fog horns.