Selected Writings

Activated Spaces

In my honors thesis as an undergraduate in the Music Department at Wesleyan University, I explored the dimensions of and interaction between acoustical, political, and physical spaces through the creation of sound art.

Typewriters, Spivaks, and Cyborgs: Identity and Technologized Beings

This paper, writen for Brian Lonsway's seminar on "The Philosophy of Space in a Digital Culture" investigates the promise and the practice of the typewriter in the 1880s and online Multi-User Dungeons in the 1990s and traces their failure to extensively complicate gender and sexuality identity formation.

I had to open the bruise up to let some of the bruise blood come out to show them (external link)

This discussion of Steve Reich's Come Out singles out the composition as politically effective experimental music, but argues that the piece is easily depoliticized, and thus has the potential to be status-quo affirming in contemporary classroom and performance contexts. Published as a post on the web log silversand.