Senior Thesis 📚 + 💿

During my time at Portland State, I was a part of the Honors College. The curriculum focuses on urban living, academic discourse, and research methods. While in the program, I've had the opportunity to conduct social science research on women attending live music events, explore discourse surrounding Ancient Rome, learn about the oral and artifact based history of African countries, gain insight into Portland's urban ecology, and more.

The honors college provided me with the resources to complete an undergraduate thesis to learn more about sound in an academic context. I started my thesis in the Spring of 2020, and completed it in June 2021 under the direction of Anwyn Willette, the SAMP area coordinator. I collected over 200 field recordings from my environments and through five short compositions explored how the sounds we hear everyday affect our relationships with space and people.  

The fives pieces I composed are organized into three recordings, which you can listen to on SoundCloud or the player below. To learn more about the idea of using field recordings as instruments and the frameworks used, you can access the full text and supporting files on PDX Scholar. To hear some of the music my research is inspired by, listen to my playlist on Spotify.