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There is a five-inch thick border of swirling, endless black. Intricate pictures of places and people break the chaos every three inches. Symbols and figures follow a winding path, converging into a colorful disc surrounding a snowy circle. With a closer glance, you can see the order within the chaos,

There is a five-inch thick border of swirling, endless black. Intricate pictures of places and people break the chaos every three inches. Symbols and figures follow a winding path, converging into a colorful disc surrounding a snowy circle. With a closer glance, you can see the order within the chaos, the thoughts and ideas that have prevailed across time and borders, and the eternal search for what it means to be human. This is my thesis \u2014 a medieval style tapestry woven from sixteen human origin stories across time and space. This tapestry encourages viewers to question what it means to be human, what it means to live a good life, why they believe this to be so, and how and why others answer these questions.
ContributorsCoriell, Kelsey Diana (Author) / Bruhn, Karen (Thesis director) / Sandoval, Mathew (Committee member) / Dach, Cindy (Committee member) / Department of Information Systems (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2016-05
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Our perspectives and experiences are constantly shaped by the music around us. Through the writing, recording, and producing of color, an eight track concept album, we seek to explore and reflect upon life's most significant milestones. This paper chronicles the year-long creation process of color and highlights the important influences,

Our perspectives and experiences are constantly shaped by the music around us. Through the writing, recording, and producing of color, an eight track concept album, we seek to explore and reflect upon life's most significant milestones. This paper chronicles the year-long creation process of color and highlights the important influences, challenges, and approach which made the album all the more transcendental.
ContributorsHuerta, Salvador (Co-author) / Tom, Nathan (Co-author) / Sandoval, Mathew (Thesis director) / Enriquez, Dante (Committee member) / School of the Arts, Media and Engineering (Contributor) / Department of Information Systems (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2018-05
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Due to increasing lack of resources and funding for budding student musicians, it is often not possible for this demographic to create, record, and produce their original music in the same high-budget studio environment in which music has been traditionally made. The objective of this project is to explore alternatives

Due to increasing lack of resources and funding for budding student musicians, it is often not possible for this demographic to create, record, and produce their original music in the same high-budget studio environment in which music has been traditionally made. The objective of this project is to explore alternatives which are more accessible to young independent musicians and reveal the most cost-efficient routes to obtain a high-quality result. To make this comparison, the group created budget recordings of their original music in a bedroom in true DIY fashion, and then recorded the same songs in a professional music studio using the best music and recording equipment available. The DIY recordings were mixed and mastered by the group members themselves, as well as separately by a professional audio engineer. The studio recordings were also mixed and mastered by a professional audio engineer, resulting in three final products with varying costs and quality. Ultimately, the group found that without mixing and mastering experience, it is very difficult to achieve high quality results. With the same budget recorded tracks, the group found that quality of the final product vastly increased when a professional audio engineer mixed and mastered the tracks. As far as the quality of the result, the studio recorded tracks were by far the best. Not only was the quality of the sounds from the high-end music and recording equipment much higher, the band had more freedom to be creative without the responsibility of simultaneously serving as recording engineers as was the case in the low budget recordings. The group concluded that this project was highly successful and demonstrated that high quality results could be obtained on a budget. The DIY recording techniques used in this project prove that independent musicians without access to expensive equipment and resources can still produce high quality music at the cost of more effort to serve as audio engineers in addition to musicians. However, recording in a studio with the help of a producer and professional audio engineers affords creative freedom and an increase in sound quality that is simply not possible to reproduce without the equipment and expertise that money can buy.
ContributorsBonk, Alan (Co-author) / Dhuyvetter, Nicholas Alan (Co-author) / Wickham, Kevin (Co-author) / Tobias, Evan (Thesis director) / Swoboda, Deanna (Committee member) / W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor) / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2018-05
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Whispers from Above is a creative project that aims to normalize the conversation and validate the emotional experience of grief, through the use of art therapies. Art therapy can be expressive in which someone creates their own work, such as visual art, poetry, performance, music, movement, etc. Art therapy can

Whispers from Above is a creative project that aims to normalize the conversation and validate the emotional experience of grief, through the use of art therapies. Art therapy can be expressive in which someone creates their own work, such as visual art, poetry, performance, music, movement, etc. Art therapy can also be receptive in which someone analyzes and understands someone else's artwork. This project was released on SoundCloud in order to make grief resources more accessible to all and to build an online community.<br/><br/>Whispers from Above worked with twelve poets, fifteen artists, six different interviewees, and multiple musicians to create a month of grief support. The finale piece of Whispers from Above was devised from the twenty-nine poems used within this month-long healing journey. All the individual poems were woven into a single devised poem to be presented as the final piece symbolizing that no one is alone in grief.<br/><br/>Whispers from Above is creative community exploration of grief, loss, and death in which we hope contributors, and listeners find solace and support. This series will exist on SoundCloud after March 27th, 2021 with a monthly release of a poem or interview accompanied by art, and music.

ContributorsWendlandt, Morgan Marie (Author) / Bowditch, Rachel (Thesis director) / Lynch, John M. (Committee member) / Sandoval, Mathew (Committee member) / School of Art (Contributor) / Department of Management and Entrepreneurship (Contributor) / School of Music, Dance and Theatre (Contributor) / Dean, W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2021-05
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"Quiet, Please" is a coming-of-age speculative fiction novel about how a super-powered neurodivergent girl and her friends navigate and attempt to save a world that is equal parts beautiful and cruel.

ContributorsHsieh, Sophia (Author) / Sandoval, Mathew (Thesis director) / Van Engen, Dagmar (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / College of Health Solutions (Contributor)
Created2023-05
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This creative project is centered around the development and pitch of a 10-hour TV series consisting of story and character documents, pitch deck and pitch script; a full length draft of the series pilot is included. Development of the series' story and characters were done alongside Thesis Director Peter Murrieta.

ContributorsLe, Brian (Author) / Murrieta, Peter (Thesis director) / Bernstein, Gregory (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / The Sidney Poitier New American Film School (Contributor) / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2023-05
DescriptionThis creative project is centered around the development and pitch of a 10-hour TV series consisting of story and character documents, pitch deck and pitch script; a full length draft of the series pilot is included. Development of the series' story and characters were done alongside Thesis Director Peter Murrieta.
ContributorsLe, Brian (Author) / Murrieta, Peter (Thesis director) / Bernstein, Gregory (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / The Sidney Poitier New American Film School (Contributor) / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2023-05
DescriptionThis creative project is centered around the development and pitch of a 10-hour TV series consisting of story and character documents, pitch deck and pitch script; a full length draft of the series pilot is included. Development of the series' story and characters were done alongside Thesis Director Peter Murrieta.
ContributorsLe, Brian (Author) / Murrieta, Peter (Thesis director) / Bernstein, Gregory (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / The Sidney Poitier New American Film School (Contributor) / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2023-05
DescriptionThis creative project is centered around the development and pitch of a 10-hour TV series consisting of story and character documents, pitch deck and pitch script; a full length draft of the series pilot is included. Development of the series' story and characters were done alongside Thesis Director Peter Murrieta.
ContributorsLe, Brian (Author) / Murrieta, Peter (Thesis director) / Bernstein, Gregory (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / The Sidney Poitier New American Film School (Contributor) / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2023-05
DescriptionThis creative project is centered around the development and pitch of a 10-hour TV series consisting of story and character documents, pitch deck and pitch script; a full length draft of the series pilot is included. Development of the series' story and characters were done alongside Thesis Director Peter Murrieta.
ContributorsLe, Brian (Author) / Murrieta, Peter (Thesis director) / Bernstein, Gregory (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / The Sidney Poitier New American Film School (Contributor) / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2023-05