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@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @thoker@social.cologne @alisynthesis I do too! And very much appreciate what you're saying, especially as I've been finding much fruit in letting go of ownership and judgement, in a sense; seeing making music as drawing from the sonic flux, and contributing back to the stream. "Music is always happening; and I get to part of it." This would imply mutability, repeatability and flexibility in terms of many versions and iterations, too. :) Songs often seem to possess a kind of structural resilience: they can survive changes of arrangement, tempo, instrumentation, voice, even historical context, and still remain recognisably carriers of something specific. I agree with you re the industry; it both commercialised music and ontologically fixed it. One recording became *the* song. It is quite strange when you think about it, isn't it? Once the recording becomes the commodity, it can begin to eclipse the living thing as such. Up against most traditions, where variation was not deviation but the norm; music living through reiteration, reinterpretation, and circumstance! Sometimes a later version can even disclose meanings that were latent, and it becomes less a replacement than a commentary across time. Having said that, and despite me rambling on here, it isn't something I've done much. You've inspired me to change that!