White's Mill...Woke up early around 6 and finished my theory homework. We had a brief quiz and I did pretty well on it so I feel a little better about that course. It's been a busy day. I got my tetanus vaccine and also my hepatitis A vaccine too. Tetanus is in the left arm and Hep A is in the right. I have a vaccine in each arm!
I met with one of my advisors to find out about funding my independent study in Ecuador via Student Enrollment Awards (SEA) through the Council on Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity for Undergraduate, Graduate, and Medical Students. Last year, they awarded 21 students for a total of $93,774. One of last year's recipient from my program (Media Arts and Studies) got an award of more than $5,000 -- here is an excerpt from the news release:
Michael Kortlander, an undergraduate student in media arts and studies, received $5,268 to produce a short film, "The Dying Western," which tells the story of a man pursuing his dreams of becoming the next John Wayne.
Just by reading about Michael's project makes me feel like I have a good possibility of winning an award for my proposal. My proposal, in so many terms, will be to conduct a field recording study concerning some of the bioscapes (phonographic soundscapes) of Andean, coastal, and the Amazonal regions of Ecuador in coordination with documenting the urban, rural, and cultural expressions of Ecuador as experienced through my program's trajectory.
I still have a lot of things to iron out as far as the details -- I need to define and refine my narrative description, establish a bibliography of research, establish a mentor endorsement and a number of other itemized things required for the proposal -- all of which is due by next Thursday, February 19.
I have added a few favorite websites because they are related to some of my interests -- phonography, field recording, sonic architecture, and found sounds.
