CREATIVE RESEARCH
Hybrid knowledge practices bridging research, teaching, and service through art.
The Bizzi: A Creative Research artifact
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📝 Referenced in: “The Bizzi: Symbolic Capital and Mythic Pedagogy in Creative Research” (in review, IJEA)
This album single operates as a creative research artifact — a mythic autoethnography using digital instrumentation and pedagogical metaphor. Built entirely in MIDI, The Bizzi transposes academic precarity, creative autonomy, and symbolic labor into sonic form. It reflects an emerging creative framework (Mythic Pedagogy) that bridges sonic storytelling, pedagogical symbolism, and aesthetic research. Full credits, research framing, and critical storytelling with mythic roles can be found in the album booklet.
Chew the Fat: A merger of art and analysis
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📖 Liner notes: Analysis and prose included in the album booklet.
This early big band and chamber work experiments with sonic storytelling and cultural commentary — combining jazz-classical hybrid forms with playful-yet-critical liner notes. Written during my 2016 Master’s program, Chew the Fat includes reflections on process, performance labor, and absurdity in artistic environments. While not a formal research submission, it offers a glimpse into the layered creative inquiry that would later crystallize into works like The Bizzi. Some of these themes — symbolic labor, aesthetic capital, pedagogical absurdity — would resurface years later in more developed creative-research formats.