The current project finds me living in Luanda, Angola and working with Angolan writers and their texts. Angolan writers have adapted indigenous narrative modes and Lusophone literatures to develop new forms. This work is all the more impressive as it has been forged by and sustained through a prolonged struggle for independence and a devastating civil war. My work here explores the implications of placing contemporary Angolan literature in new technological contexts – those of experimental, electroacoustic, and computer musics. Throughout 2008 I will be recording Angolan authors performing readings of their work, then processing and re-performing these recordings with my own computer software and alternate controller. The project is supported by the music department at Brown University with sponsorship by the Angolan Writers’ Union (UEA: União dos Escritores Angolanos).

I am a doctoral candidate in the meme@brown program where I study with Joseph “Butch” Rovan, Todd Winkler, and Roberto Simanowski. I hold an MS in Digital Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology where I studied with Sha Xin Wei and Steve Everett, and a BA from Grinnell College with majors in music and economics where I studied composition with Jonathan Chenette.