The sound art represented in the Artbase includes instruments, avant-garde music, documents from webcast performances, and radio art. The works we feature from among them depend on the network - on the Internet as a medium for making sound and as a place where audiences listen. In almost all of these works, the participants are given control over the nature of the listening experience. Many invite participants to become DJs of a sort. The artist provides sounds and the participant mixes them.

In "One Day on the Air," for example, the participant can move the mouse over shifting, layered images and a collage of "sixteen radiophonic bits" recorded by Nicholas Clauss on French radio. In Eric Bunger's "Let Them Sing It for You," participants type in lyrics of their choosing and the words are sung to them in the voices of many sampled pop stars. In these pieces, the emphasis is on reinterpreting sounds from another context - radio and pop music, respectively.

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