Open share drawer Simone Schmidt and company navigate interior and exterior life with country-inflected improvisations that stretch out like a long summer afternoon. The contemporary musicianâs to-do list only gets longer and more obtuse in the name of Engagement and Content: write funny tweets, gaze into the TikTok abyss, maintain a carousel of fresh photographs, sprinkle it all with carefully maintained parasocial politeness. Simone Schmidt has never really played the game. And why would they, really? Outside of projects like One Hundred Dollars, the Highest Order, and Fiver, their work has also included a long commitment to the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; over the past year, theyâve dedicated time to Torontoâs Encampment Support Network, a mutual-aid organization addressing the failures of city officials in treating unhoused residents with much empathy or urgency.