Bruce Nauman created his first videotaped works in 1968. His video works display his body, testing the limits of everyday situations, and throughout the course of his career often investigating his own studio. Sound for Mapping the Studio Model (The Video) presents a monochrome analysis of the artist’s studio, following in the historical tradition of the studio as artistic subject. The surveillance-like appearance of the work lends it a certain paranoid quality; the long stretches of stagnation amplify the scene’s desolation, overwhelming the viewer with the expectation that the artist must feel in the studio, alone, desperately waiting for an idea. The video footage in Sound for Mapping the Studio Model (The Video) is organized and edited to highlight the audio element within each edit -- the audio component is the priority rather than the image component. Consequently, most of the sounds in the work such as coyotes, horses, distant trains and rain come from off-camera or outside the studio space where the recordings took place. Nauman was influenced by various experimental artists like John Cage and Meredith Monk.