Response: Radio plays and sound art tell stories and both work with the same materials: voice, sound, music. With one crucial difference: in the radio play, music and sound serve the word - while in sound art all these elements are basically equal as material in the hands of the sound composer. Stories can be told with music, with sound or with words. Mostly, however, the work is an individual mixture of all these elements.

For me as a radio play director, the discovery of sound art was a kind of liberation from the dominance of the word, the text, which everything has to serve, and at the same time from the illustrative function of music and sounds. I asked myself why I usually only wanted to hear a radio play once, but music - whether Mozart, Penderecki or the Rolling Stones - over and over again. The I found the answer in sound art as radio art: ideally, it has the same openness and complexity as a poem or piece of music, in which my auditory imagination can move freely.