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Sculpture As Memoir, Tirzah Reed
Sculpture As Memoir, Tirzah Reed
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
Questions guide my art practice, so they naturally guide the structure of this thesis.
Remember?
If I remember, what then?
What makes a memoir?
What is the work made of?
Nouns and adjectives—why have both?
What’s the role of sound?
How does the form of installation relate to memoir?
How do we take an installation from situation to story?
What happens in the studio?
What gets me to the studio in the first place?
What matters?
Objects have power. They hold the histories of their owners—or if they have not had previous owners, they at least carry the connotations of …
A Feminist History Of The Roland Mc-505, Cameron Davis
A Feminist History Of The Roland Mc-505, Cameron Davis
Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium
A Feminist History of the Roland MC-505
Abstract
Roland’s MC 505 is a small portable music production instrument also known as agroovebox that functions as a programmable sixty-four note polyphonic synthesizer and drummachine with twenty-six interchangeable drum kits to use in various combinations. (1) The groovebox is equipped for both audio recording and live performance, both of which are analyzed in this research. The machine has many innovative elements that have carried over into modern music technology as well as some limitations that have since been left behind. This study acts as a historical evaluation of the growth and improvements …