In the vast world of digital content, search strings can sometimes look like cryptic codes. The phrase is a perfect example. At first glance, it appears to combine a name, a live performance, a random alphanumeric string, a time duration, and the word “portable.”
The title track of the live set runs exactly 38 minutes—the length of her daily commute from her paying gig (a jingle writer for a pest control ad) to her real life. “In 38 minutes,” she explains, “you can fall in love, have a breakdown, write a will, or finish a whole biryani. I chose to make art.”