Samora Pinderhughes

So if you're using music as a background thing, you're not really going to notice the difference, you know, versus music being an active participatory process in your life that has emotional value in different ways.

And that process has happened over time to where now it's become very easy for musicians to be replaced.

There's also no context in which that set of technologies could have the relationship and the memories that I have with my choir.

The things that we've moved through that inform what's inside of the music, the things that you can't name.

And I think that when you cease to place value on that stuff that is unnameable and in that space, which I think is what art is supposed to be about, which is it does things to you that you can't really understand why it's happening.

Like how it's moving you.

And that's the stuff that I think people don't want to deal with.

Sometimes I kind of feel a little bit crazy in terms of why are we spending so much money to try out all these other things when we could just pay artists, when we could just feed people, when we could just like solve the issues we have in the here and now, you know?

And that's the part that I really don't understand personally.

I don't think it's too expensive.

I just think it's harder to exploit people.

It's harder to make more money on the top end.

But I don't think it's too expensive to bring it to the audience.

I just don't think that maybe people that are owning things in a certain way will make as much money as they deserve.

might make if they were able to build other models where they didn't have to operate in that way.

There's less overhead, certainly.

I think it requires different models, but those models are certainly there and have been there before.

I don't know if I can think of it as a reset, mostly just because the language of that I don't know how to engage with on a practical level.

I think the language I would use, which is language that I carry around with me from this writer, Aishan Crowley, who I love, he uses the term otherwise possibilities.

That's a framework that guides me a lot.