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[CREAK] [WHOOSH] [TAPPING] AUDIENCE: So I should talk with him directly? HALSEY BURGUND: Yeah, so thank you. I was extremely excited when I learned that this class was happening at all, just because I've been doing things that I would consider audio AR for 12 years now, probably. I'm very old, so don't ask me any particulars. And it's so exciting to be at a time now where things are becoming, I don't know if I'd call it mainstream yet, but at least getting to the point where people are talking about it and teaching it. And so I was excited to learn from what you guys are going through and learning in this class and to contribute to the extent that I can. So I don't know what just happened there, but I'm going to press Play again. Am I back? I'm a sound artist and technologist. And I've been doing work with what I would call audio AR for quite a while, as I was saying. I work a lot with spoken human voices. And the contributory part ...

AUDIENCE: I wanted to give an answer to 2. MICHEL DEGRAFF: OK, yeah. AUDIENCE: So to both parts-- like, one of the parts was, like, how do the discourse of power affect the role. Like, I don't know, how do discourse of powers affect how I choose to, I guess, identify or how I choose to make decisions related to language. For example, I'm from Mexico and I speak Spanish, but at the same time, part of wanting to be more Mexican is acknowledging that we have native languages. Like, Spanish is a language that was imposed on Mexico-- people who were from the land of Mexico. And it sounds like, because I want to, I don't know, get to know that part of Mexico, that motivates me to try to learn some of the native languages like [INAUDIBLE].. Or just because I feel it's like I could be more-- RACHEL: More Mexican? AUDIENCE: Yeah, more Mexican. MICHEL DEGRAFF: OK. AUDIENCE: Yeah, I'd even add that in these discourses of power, how they affect how we see our role...