At its core, Significance, Otherness works its way through an underlying philosophical question: How are the ways in which we find meaning / significance / purpose tied to what is other than ourselves? Today, there is a pervasive individualistic outlook that suggests that meaning is self-made, so letting the other in becomes a compromise to its authenticity. However, Burs offers a musical challenge to this contemporary inclination by suggesting that significance and otherness are in fact two sides of the same coin.