Nancy Holt’s  Visual Sound Zones are of a series of audio works that are sonic analogs to her Locators. They take the form of annotated scores and audio recordings. Made between 1972 and 1979,  in sites ranging from her own studio, to the John Weber Gallery, a washroom in the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), University of Rhode Island, and Franklin Furnace, in ethos works she recorded detailed descriptions of what could be seen. When first exhibited, they were played back through loudspeakers exactly where they were recorded, creating a doubling of perceptual experience. Holt asserted in her 1973 journal that in the Visual Sound Zones “the place becomes the thing,” describing them as “poems in place […] dependent on the interaction between vision and hearing […] just as sculpture is often dependent on place.” 

Visual Sound Zone: A Corner of 10 Bleecker Street was made, and first presented, at 10 Bleecker Street in New York, an early exhibition site in Lower Manhattan operated by Alanna Heiss , where it was exhibited alongside Crossed Locators. Reflecting on this exhibition, Heiss later remarked that “Nancy taught me how to see.”