That said, Susan Philipsz does look a bit of a specialist. I have said she is not a sound artist because that is what I want to believe. A worthy Turner winner should be simply an artist – no more, no less. But the Turner is about headlines and "sound art" does have a good ring to it. So does the image of an empty room with a woman's voice. The value of simplicity is that it gets across, via the poetry of tabloid news, the familiar tune about the avant garde that is a century old and still so seductive.