Information & Identity Profiteering
Situating music’s political role and describe how digital streaming services shape our identities.
Gamified Persuasion in the Metaverse
Just as the idea of play, rewards, and positive experience extends beyond the realm of gaming, so should the insights from engaging gamification.
Music Activism vs. Market Capitalism
Can artists struggle against the systems they serve? Dope Saint Jude: A case-study of hip hop’s activist potential in queer Africa.
Neoliberalism in the Music Industries
Culture, commodity, copyright, conglomeration, censorship… the creative industries: a literature review.
Sounding The Ineffable
Using sound to challenge the Western essential form of knowledge and force a thoughtful consideration of non-lexical, experiential knowledge-types.
Music as a Marker for Globalization
Localizing global flows through musical listening: 31 in-depth interviews across rural and urban Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
Field in Kenya
It takes 21 hours of travel to arrive at the reception hut of our campsite. I had just started the first day of a 3-month field study across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
Nostalgia
People ask if it’s lonely to travel around so much. My answer to this cliché travelers-blog question is: moving always brings nostalgia.
McGill Interview
After I returned from my year abroad, my department at McGill asked to do a promo interview here, which I’m recreating in this journal.
Isomorphisms between Time and Tone
Relating musical temporal and tonal structures across cultures: explore the differences between them and their points of connection.