2010
In his December 2010 AIRblast article “A Short History of Threads in Transitions,” William Siemering, founding director of NPR, discusses the evolution of public radio's sonic identity and identifies Max Neuhaus as a pivotal figure in the experimental history of the medium
. Siemering highlights Neuhaus’s 1977 work Radio Net, which used NPR’s infrastructure as a national musical instrument, as an example of using technology to create "threads" of interconnection. You can read more about this article in the document at academiccommons.columbia.edu.