Open Questions and Challenges

There are several questions that still remain unaddressed. To what extent does altering music help cope with trying to forget an event associated with that song? Does the idea of wearing a device in the ears to cancel out what is playing in our surroundings avoiding the situation? Does one really forget a song when the distortion period concludes or will there always be a trace of the memory present? 

In future explorations, it will be interesting to go into more depth with how we can perform rituals of forgetting in the digital age. Look into how we can perform such actions in a way that is respectable to others, yet still effective in addressing the need to let things of the past go. Will a ritual of forgetting really be relevant in the digital age when the artifact can never really be destroyed? Perhaps as we come to a dead end with digital files, where our authority over a memory becomes less alterable within our domain, the idea of forgetting will become less relevant that the idea of coping with what is at hand. Perhaps how we address situations and seek to let them go will become less an action of deleting the memory and more a series of therapies to understand and respond to the situation appropriately in the future.