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; …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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’ …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …