Four primary samples were chosen from the original songs, each exploring different affective elements discovered in the music. Viega created what he called “miniature sound portraits” representing the three different stages of original songs, the past, the present, and the future. What emerged from this phase was developmental journey of the songwriting, revealing a more complex relationship between of AS’s past, present, and future self 

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Assistant Professor, Music at Montclair State University. Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (NYS). Doctorate, Temple University. See weblink for current publications.

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Rising from Ashes