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Italian opera from Verdi to Verismo: Boito and la Scapigliatura
(2010)
The Scapigliatura : literally, existential disheveledness, designates an ambiguous, reformist movement in Italian art, literature, and music ca. 1858-1895. A veritable chameleon on the surface, at once seeming avant-garde, ...
Seeing space
(2010)
Where is space located in architecture? Tradition would place it in the embodied form of the building itself. This project explores an alternate location – a location within the space of representation. There has been an ...
The resurrection of traditional Japanese architecture toward the twenty-first century: The architecture of Shigeru Ban
(2010)
Japan's period of self-imposed national seclusion from 1641 to 1854 created an environment where a uniquely Japanese culture could develop, including a singular style of Japanese architecture. However, the arrival of ...
“Sixteen Hollywood Silence” for orchestra
(2010)
In the Spring of 2006 I conducted a series of listening performances in which I stood for several minutes on sixteen adjacent street corners in Hollywood and made one sound recording at each location. Eventually, these ...
Mediating the media
(2010)
Environments which are full of advertisements, moving images and news feeds act to enclose ourselves from those around us. Mobile devices such as phones and mp3 players further exacerbate this containment of the self. The ...
Local area network: Community involvement, social capital, and glocalization at NetU
(2010)
Ethnographic and interview data from a long-term study of "NetU," a wired community and college, are used to investigate the effects of computer-mediated communication on social relationships. During the course of this ...
The art of contrition
(2010)
The history and iconography of the Devil is tremendously contradictory. It is both complicated and straightforward. Theological and secular associations have established Satan's reputation as the antagonist to Christ. This ...
Through a Network of Lines That Interlace
(2010)
Through a Network of Lines that Interlace is a piece for a trio of voices—two tenors and one soprano—and 5.1 surround sound fixed media. One of the tenors must be able to sing overtones, and there are optional, fully notated ...
Green place: Sustaining historic buildings
(2010)
Statement of issue/problem . As we move towards a sustainable future in design, architecture and lifestyle, the major issues with developing sustainably in a built environment that seem to arise are existing structures and ...
Deus Ex Machina
(2010)
There are pieces of 20 th century music that attempt to combine acoustic instruments with electric guitars, almost always at the expense of the identity of one or the other group. My dissertation work, Deus ex Machina, for ...