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These songs trace the story of wireless communication from the creation of wireless telegraph to radio, to television,
to the information age in which we find ourselves. Increasingly we feel the loss of communities being entertained together and joining generations in the telling of story. From the Vaudeville shows, to radio shows, to television, to video on demand, the way that we hear and experience story and entertainment becomes increasingly private, realistic, and violent all that the same time. Wonderful stories continue to be told, an perhaps some of the greatest film making ever is happening in our time. Still, there is a fragmention and a loss of sense of a story that unites us in some way, that we experience together. We feel increasingly impacted by the power of drama, and increasingly cut off from each other. The ways in which we use technological advances today have remarkable power, power to connect, and power to alienate. These songs are not a critique of technology. They were, in fact composed entirely on the laptop computer that I now use to write you with. They do ask the questions that I believe we must increasingly keep in the forefront of our minds. What is true connectedness? How do we maintain community and sanity in an increasingly information saturated world? How can we hear the quiet voice of love amidst all of the noise? For me, as a follower of Jesus, it all comes together in the event in which God came to Personally express His care for each of us. He didn't send an email, or a movie, or a hologram, to took on skin and bones like ours and walked here with us. He loved even when love rubbed people the wrong way. He died at our hands, and even then cried out for our forgiveness. His voice is the sound that made us first, and calls us back to God and to love. He is the one true word, and the word that I pray we would hear above the noise.
Blessings,
Rob
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