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Research & Presentations

Presentation & Essay: "A Tonal Analogy for Metric Modulations in Elliott Carter's 'Canaries'

- An analysis of the tempo modulations in Elliott Carter's "Canaries", and how Carter mimics tonal structures in progressing the music through metric modulation in its absence.

Presentation: "Tone Control: Engineering Your Sound as a Percussionist"

- A new approach to timbre for percussionists grounded in thinking about overtone frequencies, mapping their changes in real time to an ADSR model, and how percussionists can manipulate them. Performance examples based on standard orchestral excerpts.​

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