Noise and sound art are areas of music that are elusive to many; it is a field in which people explore sounds outside the general rules of composition and arrangement to create an unaccustomed, non-traditional type of music.

 

Often these sounds are derived from the natural environment, produced mechanically through electronics, found objects, or various sources other than what we are familiar with regarding the commonly known traditional instruments and the sounds they make.
Our sonic experiences often have a customary response to predictable sounds that we hear and provide an audible familiarity in which we articulate as music.

E.S.S.I. (experimental sounds, sculptures and installations) Exhibitions are the creative production of Lee-Ann Joy.  Their aim is to distort audible familiarities and customary responses and adapt the sonic experience into an exhibition of sound that is non-customary and unfamiliar. It is to challenge all notions as to what we traditionally quantify as music and explore uncustomary sounds, as a legitimate form of art.