2023: spring (midterm)

For my Midterm Project, I orchestrated Aloha Oe- a traditional Hawaiian song by Queen Liliuokalani https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17iBZMO7wMRNaZ5BN5VImWWnxNA4E7uMk

This is an album cover inspired by the culture and gamelan music from the Indonesian island of Java. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NabtdqW5mmUN7uZw5FTZJZW7nE5vp_1g/view?usp=share_link

“Love and Death” I decided to do a cover of Ebo Taylor’s Love and Death. Ebo Taylor is a contemporary Ghanaian artist notorious for intertwining Ghanaian Highlife, Jazz, Calypso, and many more genres of the diaspora. Taylor’s vocal style is reminiscent of James Brown who had a huge influence on African identity and blackness.  Fela … Read more

Asa Schiller (Church Organ) Recorded in Memorial Chapelhttps://open.spotify.com/track/3UBHXyMHT6EpuFWIg3FqPZ?si=81e8affed6ec4027 Buda Dikljum Original: I Have Seen Much (Buda Dikljum)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RpEZ_fYaeRgdVWMLHWaKRIN5wMmUCElQ/view?usp=sharing

Sketches of African Instruments from different regions that are played together by the band Okavango https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e_U6gXL9Mm76KfvPmduLNozHwPMtkomw/view?usp=share_link

An album cover that I created for the holiday Enkutatash i.e., the Ethiopian New Year. https://drive.google.com/file/d/18f8eJ8-CfZVXF3t5ROoTRx797UtvfpdO/view?usp=sharing

Record sleeve design for Music from Western Samoa: from Conch Shell to Disco compiled and produced by Ad and Lucia Linkels in 1982 Record sleeve front Record sleeve back Process timelapse