An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer) works with all of the mechanics of recording, mixing, and reproducing sound. Audio engineers aren't the performers or producers of music or audio—they are the experts who deal with the technical and mechanical aspects of sound.

Where music, like speech, articulates sound according to a culturally regulated system and a measured organization of time, sound art tends to engage sound as pure physical stuff and to present time in its fluid and interminable duration.

Audio Arts sought to document contemporary artistic activity by recording artists' voices, generally captured in close proximity to their work.

Storytellers, thinkers and pioneers of social change, Sound Artists use non-conventional methods of composition to create thought-provoking art that often exists in the physical world alongside the sonic realm.