Interesting comment, Roy. I love the Leonard Cohen quote. I hope that the warm data of my written poems exists between the words, between the stanzas, within and around the visual art of them. I like to think that they are participatory rather than for a passive audience. As a musician who does a lot of solo piano improvisation, the warm data exists in muscle memory, between myself and the instrument and it’s history and what my students have taught me, for example. These improvisations exist as YouTube artifacts and are heard in different ways by audience members who have their own responses / associatations with it. They either respond with cold social media likes or nothing which feels cold to me. As a jazz musician when I’m improvising I guess the warm data bubbles between myself and the other musicians and their lives in an immediately more visceral way than perhaps it might between the musicians and the audience. Perhaps in live performance however the warm data is felt in the vibrating floorboards of everyone and everything present? Maybe because it’s live it’s felt more intensely? Maybe I don’t have enough of a grasp, yet, on what warm data is? I also don’t think that communicating in person through computer screens on Zoom is as flat and sterile as I thought. The relationships I’ve formed this way feel very real to me and less cut-throat than social media. Your question got me thinking - thank you.