I’m intimately acquainted with music as an art form, but I had not heard the term “audio art” until I read this Feed essay by David Grubbs. He visited an audio art exhibition at P.S. 1. Visitors recline on a giant futon and put on headphones to experience works by various “sound artists”. Although I am certain this is not the intent of most artists, recent legal events made me picture a world where certain composers (or, more correctly, record companies), afraid of the free digital proliferation of their works, only allow their music to be heard in protected audio museums. I’ll try to shake that frightening image out of my head.