Hello!

Thanks for visiting my blog!  My name is Elana and I'm a junior at Brown University studying music and urban studies.  This semester, I am excited to participate in a workshop for undergrads, grad students, and professors who are pursuing practice-oriented research.  My project, “Sounds Like a Building,” is going to creatively document the construction of Brown’s Performing Arts Center (PAC).  In the process, I hope to think more about how people, spaces, and sound/music/art interact with each other.

Last semester, my final project for “Echoes of the Everyday: Telling Stories with Sound” focused on one of the sounds of the PAC construction site.  My final reflection for that course also detailed some ideas I had about future directions for the project.

Over the summer, I’ve been thinking more about where this project might go, and I plan to post an update soon detailing these ideas.  For now, welcome to the blog and please post comments if you have any feedback, questions, thoughts, etc!