Kathy Bill and Faculty Mentor: Daniel T. Barney, Art Education I remember being obsessed with walking my last year of high school. I would wake up early once a week and start to walk the same path the city bus would take with the hope of one day being able to walk the whole way […]
Archives for June 2018
Student Production Manager and Coordinator for Onsite Series
Caitlin Shill and Faculty Mentor: Kori Wakumatsu, Dance Department Fine art is entering a new age, the traditional structures that have protected art for centuries are now becoming relics in the face of social, political and cultural upheavals. Over the last twenty years dance has transitioned into the realm of Fine Arts in the world […]
String Instrument Maintenance and Repair: Fundamental Skills for the Classroom Teacher
Madison K. Moline and Faculty Mentor: Dr. Samuel Tsugawa, School of Music Introduction My ORCA project was to study, practice, and teach string instrument maintenance and repair. The repairs that I learned were: closing and opening seams;; closing cracks in various parts of the instrument;; bridge and sound post alignment and placement;; neck and fingerboard […]
Henriette Renié An Enriched Perspective from Primary Sources
Clarissa Cashmore and David Day, HBLL Music Special Collections Introduction My ORCA project was a study of the French virtuoso harpist, composer, and pedagogue Henriette Renié. Renié’s archive collection is housed at BYU. There are over 9,000 items in her collection, including but not limited to spiritual diaries, letters from family and colleagues, concert programs, […]
The Relationship of Music and [Emotion]: An Experiment in Areas of Brain Activity
Caleb Cuzner Faculty Mentors: Steve ricks, school of Music; Neal Bangerter, Electrical and Computer Engineering Introduction In order to study the relationship between music and color in areas of brain activity, I proposed to have participants’ brains scanned by an MRI machine while seeing different colors and listening to contrasting music samples. After learning that […]
Photo Reference Library The Creation of a Desperately Needed Figure Drawing Reference Library for Design and Art Students
Gregory Bean and Faculty Mentor: Robert Barrett, Illustration Department The idea for this project arose from the need to provide BYU Design and Art Students with an appropriate photo reference for life drawing. Solid drawing skills have always been the foundation for most visual arts. For hundreds of years, artists have learned those skills by […]
Engraving the J.D. Morsch collection at BYU
Bringing J.D. Morsch Band Transcriptions Back Into Publication Standards for the Availability of BYU Ensembles Nicolas Mauricio Ayala Ceron and Faculty Mentor: Dr. Donald Peterson, School of Music The Brigham Young University Music Performance Library houses a very special collection of hand-written music unique in the world. This collection, known as the J.D. Marsch Collection, […]
Woodwind Instrument Repair
Emily Brown and Faculty Mentor: Ray Smith, School of Music Over the past year I was given the opportunity to heavily research the repair of woodwind instruments and it was funded by an Orca grant. For 6 weeks I learned from woodwind repair experts at Summerhay’s music store in Murray, Utah. We would work together […]
The Gamelan and the Piano: Instruments for Cultural Exchange
Zach Froelich and Faculty Mentor: Jeremy Grimshaw, School of Music This project began with a simple idea; what elements are important in representing other culture’s music and do we overlook certain elements because of our cultural biases? I wanted to see what would happen if I merged the quintessentially Western instrument, the piano, with the […]
How it Sounds and What it Means: Understanding Indian Music and Culture Through Study of the Hindustani Violin
Megumi Terry and Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, Department of Music Introduction As a classically trained violinist, having studied since the age of four, I have had an unlikely fascination with other world music cultures. In the summer of 2015 I had the opportunity to live in India and explore the culture and come to […]