Bill Dietz

Which sound is special for you?

For the past almost 2 years, the asynchronous, dispersed chorus of voices declaring “Free Palestine” has been incredibly “special” to hear.

When do you need music the most?

Music can be an excellent model for thinking and working with and through complicity: a space where we can observe the presence of history and the world in form, infrastructure, affect, and other structured but not language-based modes.

Artificial or musical intelligence?

I try and think about the ways in which so many inherited musical forms emerge from the same violent, colonial worldview that is now “optimizing” its genocidal logics with AI tools. Music and AI are manifestations of the same “problem”.