“Amplifiers, filters, recorders, microphones, audio frequency cables, universal coupling, reduction coupling, pulleys, inputs, outputs, transformers, oscillators, speakers, controls, volume; elements adjusted to a certain tension; successively ordered movements; friction; lights that turn on; acting forces; moving gears; vibrations. We are here at the level of experience.” Written in 1966 for the Colombian magazine Revista Nova, “The Wonderful World Of Machines” was composer Jacqueline Nova’s exhortation to fellow composers and a larger listening public to embrace new multiplicities of sound as a way of understanding the wider world.