Date of Award

Spring 6-15-2025

Document Type

Thesis (Master's)

Department or Program

Sonic Practice

First Advisor

César Alvarez

Second Advisor

Bethany Younge

Third Advisor

Samita Sinha

Abstract

This thesis is a reflection on a performance practice shaped by presence, process, and the unseen. Through the lens of three original works, (a)temporalities, TechniTerra, and What I Couldn’t Say Out Loud, I explore the act of performance as a devotional offering, a site of transcendence, and a method of attunement. I write from within: inside rehearsal, inside sensation, inside the unknowable. Each work serves as a record of inquiry, not asking “what can I make of this,” but “what begins to unfold when we tune ourselves to something larger?” In these pages, I share rehearsals that felt like portals, moments where sound arrived when I left, and vocal practices that led me beyond thought and into the wilderness.

This is a traceback, a reflection of a voice unfolding– intuitive, embodied, and in ongoing relationship with the sacred and the strange. The language here attempts to honor the process more than the product. What emerges is less a theory and more a way of being: a devotion to creating from the edge of knowing, and to performing as a way of remembering what we never fully forgot.

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