Lament

Accompaniment an art piece I did for class of the same name

Recognition - Reconciliation

Kung Fu At The Park But You're A Woman Dealing With Casual Misogyny

Rokurokubi

First Thing (first attempt Ableton)

My first venture into Session View in Ableton Live, looping, and generative music

M51 / We Are Out Of Space

My first use of samples from another artist's music to create something new, featuring a clip of my Palestinian friend reading their poem at a rally

Sample: Intifada by Riad Awwad, Hanan Awwad and Mahmoud Darwish from The Intifada 1987

Shake It Off : Intifada (Take 3)

Sources cited:

1. “’Barbie' receives 8 Oscar nominatons, but was that Kenough?” by Neda Ulaby, NPR.org, Jan 20, 2024, https://www.npr.org/2024/01/24/1226565927/barbie-oscar-snub-gerwig-robbie-gosling
2. “Constant surveillance: Israeli drones over Gaza”, Middle East Eye, May 12, 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEv7rXl9X8)
3. “Sky News films moment of drone strike in Gaza | Israel-Hamas war”, Sky News, Dec 20, 2023, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM3RV8X2PqU)

The News

Poetry written and performed by my friend Asch, whose grandfather was forced from his home in Palestine by the violent settler-colonial occupation that calls itself Israel many decades ago. 

All MIDI is composed and performed by me.

Their partner Ziva played most of the guitar parts, except for one, which is MIDI.

Drums: https://youtu.be/rkl3uPcU4xw?si=TPGjShUTF7uZVNk9

Final project for an intro to Pro Tools class.

Mixed by me

YOUR SILENCE

The lotus symbolizes the simultaneity of cause and effect. It blooms in muddy water, but this one is in dry sand. This piece explores my feelings surrounding someone who has been pursuing me pretty aggressively, obviously very into me, but emotionally withdrawn. Part of his heritage hails from from the furthest western reaches of the Orient, while part of mine is from the furthest eastern reaches. 

It's possible we have even orientalized and fetishized each other in this situation. 

This piece is also a reclamation of my own sensuality and identity after a codependent long term relationship which had a lot of sexual fawning on my part. Moving forward, I refuse to be used in that way. 

Situation update: he's a lying zio fuckboy POS I'm so mad lmao 

The music is a Phrygian dominant scale (typically West Asian) mixed with a Hirajoshi scale (Japanese).

Materials: Watercolor, paper, wood, sand, rubber band

Music: Original composition and mix. Ukulele with nylon low G, Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster, mixed with Pro Tools 

Didn't have a lot of time to check mix quality and only started picking a couple months ago so it's not amazing but I'm ok with it. I also don't know how to play the guitar but extrapolated from uke fingerings to get this result. 
 
For a class called Art & Identity

Tiny Humans

Popular tracks