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2017-01-25
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: The expansion of video games as a medium has precipitated a healthy indie game movement, and created opportunities for media artists to explore interactive art creation. However, audio and music in games is still primarily constrained to sound effects, dialog and emotive...
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2015-04-13
SSHRC Awarded CG 2015: Exhibiting Sound brings together social sciences and humanities researchers to learn from each other about the ways in which mediated sound can be presented in a social space---real or virtual---for educational or aesthetic experience. Through public engagement with wider...
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: Music's place in the Catholic Church’s movement from an agent of Portuguese colonization to a site of indigenous resistance in now-independent East Timor is the focus of this project. I will seek out traces of musical sound and embodied performance in archives and...
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Creative Factors and Ethnic-folk Dance: A Case Study of the Peacock Dance in China (1949-2013)
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My dissertation topic focuses on the interaction between dances, their contexts and their meanings. I am interested in a wide range of creative factors that are involved in the dance-context interaction. I chose to investigate these factors by looking at the Peacock Dance, which originates in the...
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Soundscape, Sonic Experience, and Sonic memory in Iran: Jewish and Muslim Cultural Identity in Udlajan, Tehran
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This dissertation explores the impact of everyday soundscape on cultural identity formation by considering the experiences of one neighborhood of Tehran, Iran before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Being home to a majority of Jews before the Revolution, Udlajan is one of the oldest...
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Fall 2013
My purpose in this research was to examine women contemporary dancers’ positive experiences. While previous research in women’s dance experiences exit, it tends to focus on the negative outcomes of dance participation. Using a phenomenologically inspired approach I sought to answer the following...
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Fall 2022
The saxophone continues to inspire through its ability to both play an extremely wide array of dynamics and evoke intense emotions. This recital and recording project explores works for saxophone written in the last forty years that best encapsulate the extreme musical and emotional dynamics of...
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2015-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Music scholars have recognized the need for more inclusive histories, however there is no broadly inclusive resource for interdisciplinary study of the multicultural and multifaceted phenomenon of music in Canada. This project will develop the theoretical and methodological...