SONA fuses environmental sounds and images based on Houston's surroundings: freight trains traveling through the city produce bellowing horns and deep rumblings juxtaposed with the rhythms of falling rain and the wind gusts of passing storms. In SONA, acoustic and digitally processed performances by Ensō String Quartet are punctuated by railroad images that move across the horizon, while sounds of wind and rain surround the audience in a total sensory experience.

Alfred Guzzetti has made documentary, experimental films and videotapes. His feature-length Family Portrait Sittings was shown at the Berlin, Edinburgh, and Sundance Film Festivals. Beginning Pieces won the Grand Prize at the 1987 USA Film Festival, while an earlier short, Air, took first prize in the experimental category at the 1972 Chicago Film Festival. Guzzetti collaborated with Susan Meiselas and Richard Rogers on Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family (1985) and the feature-length Pictures from a Revolution (1991), which premiered at the New York Film Festival and received two prizes at the Leipzig International Festival. Since 1993 he has been at work on a cycle of videotapes, the most recent of which include The Tower of Industrial Life, shown in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, History of the Sea, screened at the 2004 New York Video Festival, and Night Vision, presented in 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art.

Kurt Stallmann devotes his energy to the synthesis and connection of many mediums available to composers today. His works include pieces for acoustic groupings, acoustic/electronics groupings with interactive elements, environmental sounds, and purely synthetic sounds. He also enjoys frequent collaboration with improvising musicians, both as pianist and with live electronics, and with artists from other disciplines. He has served on the faculties of the Boston Conservatory of Music, the Longy School, and Harvard University. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Composition at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University where he directs REMLABS, the computer music facility. Stallmann's compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Europe.