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" At the Intersection of American Sign Language and the Performer-Percussionist: "
Clarino, Christopher Richard
Schick, Steven
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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903547
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Clarino, Christopher Richard
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At the Intersection of American Sign Language and the Performer-Percussionist:\ Clarino, Christopher RichardSchick, Steven
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UC San Diego
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2019
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2019
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ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATIONAt the Intersection of American Sign Languageand the Performer-Percussionist: A Hybrid PracticebyChristopher Richard ClarinoDoctor of Musical Arts in Contemporary Music PerformanceUniversity of California San Diego, 2019Professor Steven Schick, chairThis dissertation investigates the shared spaces between American Sign Language (ASL), percussion and performance art and addresses the following questions: Does my work successfully merge these disciplines into a singular practice? In this hybridized practice, is corporeality fundamentally relatable? For example, might a layperson relate to the playing of a drum more deeply on an emotional and physical level than the playing of a viola harmonic? Similarly, in ASL; are inherent qualities of the language – facial expression, non-manual markers, personification, and explicitly visual referents – also relatable to the layperson in the same way? Do these build a bridge to the middle ground of my practice? These topics and questions will be addressed in the context of the following works: Carolyn Chen’s Threads (2012), Lydia Winsor Brindamour’s early morning (dew, spiderweb) (2016), Tiange Zhou’s Me/Monologue (2018), Larry Polansky’s VEDITZ (2018), Yiheng Yvonne Wu’s Your Hat (2018), and my adaptation of Franz Schubert’s Erlkönig (1821). Through musical analysis and deconstruction of the works mentioned, I have attempted to answer the technical and cultural questions that have risen through preparation and performance.
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Schick, Steven
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UC San Diego
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