re: somerset repeater

while i feel some pride in this composition, the use of some of the ham radio samples, in addition to one of the vocals (mine) singing the spiritual, “sometimes i feel like a motherless child”, feels at odds with my values, and i haven’t performed it for those reasons for years. i hold that it’s important as white musicians to consider the colonial history of non-consensual extraction, so while musically i appreciate this piece (which is 30 minutes long in full), ethically i do not. this is a dip in the archive of my former self.