| My creative
work has
always been informed by research into a wide variety of
disciplines. This has included areas such as the history and
theory of multimedia arts, connections between music and language,
experimental instruments, and the history of "mechanism" in the
performing arts. |
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| While at UC
Berkeley, I have cultivated a strong
interest in
ethnomusicology. Through a number of graduate seminars with
Professors
Ben Brinner and Bonnie Wade, I have researched areas of Javanese
Gamelan, Folk Music and Politics, Improvisation, Transcription, and
Current Scholarship on music in American cultures. |
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| The majority
of my scholarship results in creative
work. Through the organizing of concerts and the creation of new
music theater compositions that find innovative ways to intersect with
the history of music, I view my work as a composer/performer as the
embodiment of my research. This being said, my research has also
lead to more traditional documents which you will find below. |
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Check back for :
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- Writings on the connections between music and theater,
performance art, and the history of "mechanism" in the arts
- Analytical papers investigating the work of composers
Gaburo,
Globokar, Lachenmann, and Nono.
- The Robert Erickson Experimental Instrument Page --
descriptions,
photos, and audio samples.
- An analysis of mode in the Central Javanese gamelan
composition
"Bondhet".
- Various transcriptions I have made of music from around the
world.
- Reviews of new music events I have written for the San Francisco
Classical Voice and the Computer Music Journal.
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