Christine Armbruster Winding through the streets of Sarajevo, I am a voyeur. Sarajevo is a city of layers, and with the discovery of each came a deeper understanding. As I dug deeper into basements where it is heard that your hair turns gray overnight, I began to know the city just a little bit more. […]
Becoming True Guitar Heroes
Justin Aiken and Professor Lawrence Green Background Guitar Hero and Rock Band are two of the most successful video game franchises of all time – Guitar Hero alone has topped $2 billion in the first quarter of last year. In these games, a player mashes plastic buttons on a guitar shaped controller in time to notes […]
Chinese Music Infield Study: Insights and Personal Experiences from Attending the Tianjin Music Conservatory
Robert Willes and Professor Kory Katseanes, School of Music My Chinese music study experience began with touring China with the BYU Chamber Orchestra in April of 2011. This tour was a very rich and unique two weeks filled with some of the most beautiful sights in Asia. The Great Wall of China, The Forbidden City, […]
Portrait of a Tree: Exhibit A
Hannah Wertz and Professor Sunny Taylor, Department of Visual Arts Abstract and Justification for “Exhibit A”, on public display October 17-31, 2011 Exhibit A is an explanation in four parts, of my attempt at knowing more about the Populus Tremulus (Aspen Tree). Eighteen months ago my experiments started shallow by painting portraits of the tree as […]
Alabaster Sky: Writing for the Web
Graham Ward and Dr. Eric Samuelsen, Department of Theatre and Media Arts Writing the web series Alabaster Sky was a process of daily adaptation. From viewing every web series and documentary-style movie we could get our hands on, to inventing a method of structuring serial fiction that’s non-linear, this project tested us daily. The success […]
Silet Signals: Non-Verbal Communication Through Digital Media
Sarah Theurer and Professor Joseph Ostraff, Department of Visual Arts Progress of the Project Through video interviews with students across the US as well as in Great Britain, the Silent Signals project intended to create a portrait of the current university generation through documention their non-verbal communication and signals. We set out to do this through […]
The Garifuna: A Nation Within Nations
Benjamin Petersen and Dr. Jared Johnson, Department of Communications The Garifuna are the descendents of West Africans brought to the Americas in the 1600s aboard slave ships. After a shipwreck in the Caribbean, they settled on the island of St. Vincent and mixed with the Carib Indians, creating a unique people and culture that thrived […]
National Identity and Culture: Through Traditional Language and Music in Okinawa, Japan
Ryler Nielsen and Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, School of Music Two of the most often used methods that we, as humans, use to identify with each other are language and music. The Omoro Soushi, compiled in the early 1600s, is a compilation of poems and songs in the Okinawan language that were used to create music. […]
Perception of Forgery According to the Role of Art
Courtney McWhorter and Dr. Martha Peacock, Department of Visual Arts Originally, when I set out to begin this project my intent was to show ‘Art Forgery as an Art Form’, as the title of this project was originally called. However, the intent of my research was very broad, as I intended to discuss forgery’s role, […]
The Music Within Urban Noise
Todd Kitchen and Dr. Steven Ricks, School of Music My goal was to expose the musicality inherent in urban environments through a musical composition involving sound recordings made in New York City. Specifically, I used the sophisticated software available to me in the BYU Electronic Music Studio to identify the specific frequencies (pitches) and rhythmic […]
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