From Eryk Salvaggio of Cybernetic Forests: Michèle and I connected a while before collaborating on a musical companion piece to her latest collection of poems, Liner Notes from Getting Out Without Catching Fire. The album, Getting Out Without Catching Fire, collects musical responses to poems and themes in the book. It features a diverse roster of artists, including Sheena Dham, Hermon Mehari, Lina Dannov, Arun Sood, Sylvia Hinz, James Fella, Silvia Cignoli, myself, and three tracks contributed by Sophie Stone.
This interview covers a range of topics, from the tensions of technology as poetic metaphor to links between trauma, grief, and artmaking — and whether or not generative AI is a remix, or something else.