Developing a sound piece about my name was quite challenging for me. I had never really considered my name to hold any other meaning besides something people referred to me as. After researching the meaning of my name, Alessandra, I didn't come across anything I thought could usefully transform into meaningful sound, so I developed my sound piece based on how I felt about my name. When I was young people struggled to understand and pronounce my name. This made me struggle to accept it and confused me to why no one had heard of it before. I started out my sound piece with unpleasant and difficult sounds to show how I felt negatively towards my name, and as the piece went on I shifted into more pleasant and much softer sounds to demonstrate my acceptance of my name as I have grown up.

Alessandra Vernier