Research and publications

Undergraduate thesis, Rhythm and Statecraft, explores whether war, diplomacy, and music have shared an inextricable link throughout the past centuries, and if so, how the link has expanded and evolved into modern day soft diplomacy. 2021

Guest lecture at the State University of São Paulo, UNESP. Grupo PIAP apresenta: Encontros de Presquisa em Percussão, Rhythm and Statecraft. Click here for the presentation PDF(Portuguese)2024

“Imaginary Landscapes: Chance As a Means of Discovering the New.” How John Cage’s embrace of chance in the creative process prefigured our current relation to knowledge via the medium of the search engine. Published in inaugural OSUN Global Commons magazine. 2022

De Ouvido is a bilingual and integrative analysis of the culture and techniques of performance and pedagogy in the sphere of samba and Carnaval, providing an interdisciplinary overview of samba school Rosas de Ouro’s Carnaval parade, including sheet music, scores, written analysis, original illustrations, photographs, and images. 2024