The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art is a collection of new essays by artists and thinkers exploring the uses of sound in contemporary arts practice. Between them these chapters bring together a wide variety of perspectives and practices from around the world into the six overarching themes of Space, Time, Things, Fabric, Senses, and Relationality that form the structure of the book. These themes were chosen to represent some of the key areas of debate and development in the visual arts and music during the second half of the twentieth century from which Sound Art emerged. Emerging from a liminal space between multiple movements, Sound Art has been resistant to its own definition. Often discussed in relation to what it is not, Sound Art now occupies a space opened up these earlier debates and with only just enough time to benefit from hindsight, this book charts some of the most exciting ways in which Sound Art’s practitioners, commentators, and audiences are recognizing the unique contribution it can make to our understanding of the world around us. This book is not intended to define sound art and actively resists any attempt to establish a new canon. Rather, it is intended as a set of thematic frames through which to understand some of the recurring themes that have emerged over the past forty years or so, bringing constellations of disparate thought and practice into recognized centers of activity.