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Spring 2018
Although music scholarship has addressed queer topics in the past, a focus on lived experiences and community interactions has been notably absent in the literature. This work considers some of the challenges that may be inhibiting the emergence of a queer focus for fieldwork-based music studies:...
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Fall 2011
The practice of appropriating a sign, icon or trope with an already-established meaning and investing it with a new meaning to produce a sign that retains both original and revised meanings is one example of what scholar Henry Louis Gates calls “Signifyin(g)”. I argue herein that musician George...
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"Singing I Go Along Life's Road": A Musician's Grapple with Theory and Surrender to Practice
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I would like the reader to accept the word “grapple” as the key piece of the title of this thesis, or at least as the most succinct and accurate descriptor for what it is and what it does. It applies reflection and storytelling to lay bare a research process that became the topic of the research...
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Fall 2022
These notes are part of the final project for the Doctor of Music in Piano Performance degree, which included a CD of self-edited recordings and a recital performance. The recital programme comprised the Keyboard Sonata in C major (Hob.XVI:48) by Joseph Haydn, Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel,...
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30 immolated ; 16 returned for extreme metal band, soprano, live electronics, and theatrical component, with accompanying document
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My thesis work, 30 immolated ; 16 returned, reflects the systematic transgression of sexual taboos found in the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom through a 30 minute sonic and dramatic work, comprised of extreme metal, harsh noise, and avant-garde composition, live electronics, and an...
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Fall 2015
A Hole in the World is an open composition for prepared electric guitar, archival recording, and audio programming. Text-fragments culled from my father’s recorded autobiography serve as the focal point of the piece. Transformations of these text-fragments within the audio programming language...