You can hear three excerpts of this industrial sound collage above and the remaining seven at Ubuweb. Listen to them first as examples of "sound poems," then watch Enthusiasm: The Donbass Symphony at the top for a better understanding of why Vertov remains such an influential, indeed essential, film---and audio---artist widely credited with freeing new media from the aesthetic confines of the stage and the page. Just below, listen to one of Vertov's early experiments with documentary sound art, from 1916. Just as he sought to create an international worker's visual language through film, "Through radio, he attempted to establish auditory communication across the whole of the world's proletariat by way of recording the sounds of workplaces and of life itself."