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FILM CLIPONE

PRONK + JACOBY

There’s something unique about Anabelle Ocha’s choregraphy in this piece. It is contemporary and modern in comparison to classical ballet, but it’s almost as if you’re seeing the music in the movements. If something sounds round or sharp, it’s in the movement. The classical rules are thrown out the window and we are left with a visceral, captivating and thought- provoking experience.

These superhuman dancers manage to execute the movements with such precision and depth that they embody the music. And you think to yourself: yes, yes of course that dissonant syncopated hum should absolutely look like that.

EXCERPTEUCLID

300 BC

I’m interested in the visual representation of abstract and amorphous ideas as well as how design impact behavior. This is just a mathematical proof but I’m more interested because it’s visually appealing and easier to deciper with imagery.

MUSICLIGETI

ARTIKULATION

POLITICSJG BALLARD

THE AGE OF UNREASON

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

1 2DESIGN TOUCHES EVERYTHING DESIGN AFFECTS BEHAVIOR

A field about and for people: it’s revealing about human nature and society as a whole.

How something is treated people behave within a space depends on its design.

INSIGHTPERSONAL

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People, particularly highly intelligent, high-functioning individuals are remarkable compensators for handicaps and behavioral anomalies. Drawing from past experience, fiction and other sources, they manage to convince most people around them that they are either fine or completely normal.

IN A CITY FULL OF SUITS, DOES THAT MAKE OUR SOCIAL CAPITAL LOW? Does social trust, social altruism, equality, tolerance, humanitarianism, and civic participation decrease with the net value of the individual or city?

INSIGHTCIVIC

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QUESTIONSYNESTHESIA

HEARING LOSS

CAN SOMEONE WHO IS HARD OF HEARING ENJOY SOUND AND MUSIC LIKE THE REST OF THE POPULATION?Does the answer lie in synesthia? Synesthetes experience an overlap of senses daily. Could this phenomenon possibly aid in reimagining of how people experience and enjoyn music.

MY RECENT TRIP TO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL WAS ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE AND INSPIRING: THE CULTURE, THE ARCHITECTURE, THE PEOPLE.

Not knowing the language pushed me to be creative in communicating and not being able to speak freely engaged me visually and emotionally. I was able to focus on seeing, hearing, feeling and experiencing everything that the different cities had to offer.

FATIMA, PORTUGAL

SALAMANCA, SPAIN

AVILA, SPAIN

SALAMANCA, SPAIN

I AM STUDYING SYNESTHESIA AND THE NEURAL UNDERPINNINGS OF MUSIC AS WELL AS DIFFERENT VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SOUND

SO THAT I CAN DISCOVER HOW SOUND/MUSIC CAN BE ENHANCED OR REIMAGINED

IN ORDER TO HELP PEOPLE WITH IMPAIRED HEARING EXPERIENCE THE WORLD WITH REGARD TO SOUND/MUSIC LIKE THEY USED TO OR IN A FULLER BUT DIFFERENT WAY

Music is emotive and physical and science has revealed that it has significant impact on the brain, which is likely why music is such a unique and personal experience. How do I bring that back to someone who has lost or is losing their hearing?

NOTE ON MUSIC