"Into the Interface" (1994) by Norie Neumark is an outstanding audio art documentary about the way computers are re-shaping the face of popular culture and altering the way we look and interact. The program explores computer aesthetics and politics at a visceral and sensual level. It questions the pleasures and compulsions that draw us into the interface. "Interface suggests more than just the screen, the machine surface, on which a new (and old) aesthetics is being imaged. It suggests the human/machine relationship and interaction that is being shaped there— taking us to other spaces, other realities, but also telling us and forming who we are." (Neumark) Into The Interface is structured as an aural hypertext—crossing the listener between a number of "sound stacks"— dressing room, morphland, speedzone, surface and desire. Commissioned by The Listening Room, Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

In its ten years as a weekly national series, 1987-1998, New American Radio (NAR) commissioned and distributed over 300 original works: conceptual new drama, associational documentary, language explorations, sonic meditations, environmental compositions, musical explorations and works that pioneer new dimensions in acoustic space. Wave Farm is thrilled to be partnering with New American Radio to ensure these works remain available to listeners today and into the future.

New American Radio was organized by Helen Thorington, Executive Producer and Regine Beyer, Associate Producer. A special thanks to both Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green for their generous support and collaboration of this partnership, and their contribution to the field at large!

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