Elise Hu

So what happens to the future directors, the future musicians whose distinct eye or distinct sound hasn't been...

really out in the world or found an audience.

Can you give us a peek behind the curtain?

Because you are friends with so many producers, so many people at the top of industry.

What kind of conversations around this are happening right now?

Because, as you mentioned, the cow is kind of already out of the barn.

Sorry, I'm just always with my Texas references.

Yeah.

Is this any different than, say, like when digital synthesizers were first on the market and first came out?

You know, they were also capable of making new sounds.

AI is obviously, you know, exponentially more stronger and faster and all of those things.

But it sounds like the conversations around it are similar, right?

Do you think there's going to be kind of a backlash or a return to more analog sound or even that like tangible media storage of yesteryear?

What do you predict?

This live instrumentation question, I'm so glad you brought up because it's so special to be here at TED, to get to hear you perform just now, to have these experiences that are in real life.

Yes.

Gen Z, Gen Alpha, they're very into in real life get togethers and convenings, largely because they were starved of that as they were coming of age during the pandemic.

But live music is so expensive.

I am finding that it is so much, it's like out of reach for so many people, especially young people to go to concerts these days.

Yes.