Subverted expectations are often the central refrain in sound-art pioneer Christian Marclay's mediated, music-inflected performances and objects. For those familiar with his video and turntable work, Marclay's show Stereo at Fraenkel Gallery may seem strangely quiet. Working with visual couplings and echoes — a pair of Plexiglas-encased speakers, a diptych of painted record covers, a collage of postcards from friends, Rorschach-like drawings of the word "echo," and a CD-covered mirror — the artist manages to explore sound without making any. This career-spanning exhibition reveals and often frustrates our call-and-response relationship with music, showing that Marclay's silent puns and double entendres are as keenly deconstructive as his punk plunderphonics.

-Laura Richard Janku

Christian Marclay's work is also on view at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva, Switzerland, through September 21.