The creative ecosystem that nurtures the maker of this work stretches across every region of the Philippines, a landscape where creators build their artistic foundations on the constant circulation and collision of sonic lineages that have long shaped cultural production across the archipelago. For creators working within this space, the impulse to blend disparate sonic traditions is not a passing trend, but a core part of how Philippine art forms have evolved for generations, as creators weave together strands of expression that carry personal, communal, and national meaning to build works that resist any narrow, singular framing. This impulse to reject rigid categorization is woven into every choice that shapes the sound Galit, a work that falls under the classification of Music/Mix, a framing that captures the intentionality of its creator’s choice to move beyond the limits of pre-defined genre labels that would force the work into a box that fails to capture its full scope and complexity.