Resist
September 2023, ARTDES 363 Podcast-topia
This short-form experimental audio piece explores my personal struggle with nicotine addiction
Created at the height of my dependency on cigarettes and vapes, Resist reflects my internal tensions between knowing the dangers but refusing to stop. Through layered sound design and fragmented, poetic narration, my personal story unfolds without ever naming the addiction outright, allowing auditory cues and parallel stories of self-control to gradually reveal my truth, mirroring the feelings of shame and lies that surround this past-addiction. This was truly a study in restraint, using sound to capture the root of my problem, compulsion.
Ableton Live, Premiere Pro
Sonic
November 2023, ARTDES 363 Podcast-topia
Made to explore the electronic music scenes in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Belleville, and Detroit Michigan, this podcast layers original compositions, anonymous voices, and questions about art, community, creativity, and connection. Interviewee wait until the end to introduce themselves and their craft, and the subjects of music is only gradually revealed, hidden beneath textures, ambient sounds, philosophical inquiry, and personal sound.
Premiere Pro, Ableton Live
Bioluminescence
August 2023, Digital 258 Music Creation in the Digital Age
An exploration of technology, AI, and science through the medium of Music Production. Inspired by Detroit electronic music, analog and modular synths, and the idea of merging together something organic and artificial, this project is a complete blend of spoken word, experimental sound design, and digital abstraction. While it started without it, I used the help of AI (a suggestion for the assignment from the class it was generated from) to give me a word to generate a poem from: "bioluminescence". From there, I wrote the poem and translated to Esperanto and performed using robotic text-to-speech.
Lyrics are in the description of the video.
Ableton Live, ChatGPT, Text-to-speech
Elevator
January 2022, ARTDES 120 Studio: 4D
Created during my first year of college, Elevator is a surreal, disembodied short-form audio piece that uses self-made sound effects and voice acting to mimic an elevator ride gone wrong. Developed in responds to an assignment to create a “list”, I used the number sequence of the elevator floor numbers as the list itself, each number marking a transition into distorted, unsettling sonic environemnt.
Each sound was made with household objects: glass cup, keyboard, my own voice, and even my guitar. With this, everything was layered in Premiere Pro to create disorientation and tension, going from something that is seen as mundane and slowly unraveling into something uncanny. Elevator explores themes of liminality and that of the uncanny.
Zoom Audio Recorder, Premiere Pro