The sonic arts bring us into a different perceptual relationship with the world, and the complexity of the aural palette with its ability to create a multidimensional reality rich in sensations and images has endowed radio as a medium with a special capacity for transport. While film and video remain always outside the body, a facsimile on a screen, and words remain bound to the page of the book, aural media both surround and penetrate the body. Radio in its most creative manifestations is the original holographic virtual space. Projected onto the visual field of the inner eye, resonating along aura pathways in the boom box of the brain, words and sounds become living presences. Think of radio as words with wings, Swedenborg's and Wim Wenders' angels descending to whisper in your ear, their breath caressing your skin.
Thoughts are energy transformed into matter through the voice.
The voice is the engine of desire that makes flying possible. Their work characterizes a uniquely American sensibility, culture and landscape, and their diverse voices and visions represent a crossection of our individual and collective histories and experiences. In that sense, all of this work may be seen as a form of cultural autobiography and oral history. The majority of these artists have sustained bodies of work in the visual and performing arts, and they bring that formal vocabulary to the works they have created for radio. This holds true in both textual and non-textual works.