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"In many ways, Samson Young is the ideal sound artist - he is a composer with a PhD in music from Princeton. I asked Samson if he was bothered by being defined by the label "sound artist," which is frequently applied to him. He replied understatedly: "Some of my works are not about sound." But when I looked at those works, I found that they were surely about sound - or, at the very least, they could be understood from the perspective of sound art. In fact, his non-musical practices always begin with a keen sensitivity to sound and invite us to perceive sounds that are typically not heard."