Snider’s music represents a unique musical voice moving past concepts such as genre using every tool available to present music primarily concerned with emotion and storytelling.

Who deserves the blame for opening the Pandora’s Box of technology that allowed music (and other art forms) to be freely shared worldwide amongst anyone with enough access? Maria Schneider is on a mission to bring these issues to our attention and demonstrate how to use these technologies to allow artists to make a living doing something other than performing on stage 365 days a year.

Olga Neuwirth teaches us that it's more important to decide which language and setting are more critical (or efficacious) for the expression of ideas than it is to try to cram an idea into a predetermined musical genre, instrumentation, or performance setting.