Vocal Performance
Performing art as a singer, actor, and public speaker has played an integral role in my life. Whether I am singing, acting, or even giving a presentation, I approach all of my performances as character studies—focusing on who I am portraying, the relationships they have with others, and what they are trying to accomplish. Written lines and actions provide clues into a character’s world and their disposition, however, relationships, goals, and values are necessary to color in the rest of the person. This is especially important when considering motive--why characters take the actions they do. The question of "why" informs performance choices around "how," and the "how" defines the performance. All of my recent recorded (and therefore suitable for this portfolio) performance work I completed as a vocalist for the MIT Logarhythms, a pop-focused acapella singing group. The sort of character work I usually employ for performance doesn’t obviously fit with pop music because pop music doesn’t employ characters in the same way drama, musical theater, or even jazz music does. I therefore focused on the character of the performer, why that performer might sing a song with certain emotional timbre, and what relationships they have with the others on stage or in the audience. Below, I’ve included a piece of recorded music for which I am the soloist, a fun-focused and slightly goofy duet I completed with another Logarhythms alumni, and a more serious piece I sang as my final solo for the Logs.
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