How do the concepts and practices of “music” and “community” intersect in the experiences of the various constituencies of a Providence-based music school grounded in …
This dissertation traces the impact of early Soviet social engineering and modernization projects on the contemporary musical life of Pamiris—peoples of the Pamir Mountains of …
Mitski, the indie project of Mitski Miyawaki, poses an enigma that resists interpretation. Since her first self-released album Lush created in 2012 as a conservatory …
I used this project to build off my past work with improvisation-based open scores, conditioning the performers' mindsets more than dictating the sounds themselves. I …
I used this project to build off my past work with improvisation-based open scores, conditioning the performers' mindsets more than dictating the sounds themselves. I …
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 …
I used this project to build off my past work with improvisation-based open scores, conditioning the performers' mindsets more than dictating the sounds themselves. I …
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 …
This paper outlines a creative, practice-based approach to exploring the entanglements between people and information technologies, especially as it relates to the role of surveillance …
Orchestra, Deconstructed is an interactive music exhibit featuring the works of living female composers. This exhibit is created by rehearsing with a full orchestra, and …
Orchestra, Deconstructed is an interactive music exhibit featuring the works of living female composers. This exhibit is created by rehearsing with a full orchestra, and …
Drawing on fieldwork in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, this dissertation examines how sound mediates (anti)social and translocal relations in the soccer culture of Latin America’s …
Sight-reading is an extremely important skill for organists, as it allows for progression in many areas of musicianship and facilitates faster learning of new pieces. …
In recent decades, the djembe has become a global commodity. Originating as a local ceremonial drum in rural Mande communities, the djembe has since proliferated …
This dissertation examines the lived experiences and revitalized ceremonies of Bhutanese-Nepali Kirat Rai refugees recently resettled in Vermont in order to make a larger argument …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What do you think? is the artist's first foray into music composition. It aims to deconstruct three primary concepts to his musical and personal self; …
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 …
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 …
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 …
