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. …
Not to Touch the Earth is an audio-visual installation with three projection channels and four audio channels built in Max/MSP/Jitter. The installation is enclosed in …
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 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 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 …
The Notes of Country explores how a simple, four-note motive can be employed and expanded on in a variety of musical styles. From motivic transformation …
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 …
This dissertation adopts Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis as an artistic methodology and applies it to ecologies of more-than-human agency. Each of three pieces addresses a contentious …
Oscillator Pond is a sound installation project developed as part of an environment art-science conference program, Atmospheres. The work introduced a randomized soundscape into a …
Orrery Arcana is a system for real-time improvisational solo performance. The system includes a self-made modular hardware controller and custom software that was designed solely …
“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 …
My project analyzes the intersection of listening, disability, and popular music in the twenty-first century United States. In particular, I focus on competing and contemporary …
SOAK is an intermedia performance suite that comprises three pieces – Soto, Soak, and Tsuchi. This is a ritualistic performance where I reexamine myself and …
Florianopolis, the island capital of Santa Catarina, Brazil, is home to endemic traditional music genres. Surrounding these genres are fraught areas of disagreement regarding traditions’ …
This dissertation traces changing understandings of indigeneity in highland Peru, articulated in the ways people have adapted music alongside new media technologies over the last …
Plastic Orchestra is an exploration of joy, timbre, collaboration, and active listening. Over the past year, twenty musicians and I have played with the possibilities …