This dissertation concerns two interrelated areas of cultural policy in Turkey: the curation of an official broadcast repertoire of folk music at the state broadcasting …
This thesis discusses the design of a sensor-embedded data glove called alto.glove, created by the author and used in interactive performances involving string instrument playing …
On a typical night at the opera, the musico-dramatic synthesis that takes place on stage is saturated in atmosphere, but the proceedings off-stage are no …
This dissertation explores of various modes of musical activism within the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Music is an important aspect of life in …
Dark Exhalation is a chamber opera-film for four vocalists, amplified ensemble (flute, clarinet / bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, percussion), and pre-recorded sound …
Abstract of Defamiliarizing the Cart: Art as Interventionist Practice in the Age of Cyberdelic Consumerism, by Martim S. Galvão, Degree A.M., Brown University, May 2017. …
Keyboards are all around us, on our cell phones and laptops, mediating our writing, our correspondence, our digital expression, and accompanying our communication with audible …
“Hard-Wired Wonderland” is an audiovisual installation that explores a connection between the sonic, the visual, and space. This dissertation seeks to understand the process of …
This thesis provides a thorough discussion of "Man Will Not Outlive the Weather", a chamber opera for mezzo-soprano, flute, cello, piano, percussion, and electronics; composed …
This record is a balancing act: clear melodies and surprising harmonies, twisting words and ringing strums, wiggly synths and acoustic drums. Growing up with a …
This dissertation examines how practitioners of capoeira Angola develop sensory knowledge as a mode of racial politics. The ethnographic study focuses on master-teacher Mestre Cláudio’s …
This work examines New England Country & Western music as a series of frontiers that construct and reinforce regional working-class community and identity in a …
