Concentration(s):
Music | Computer Science
Honors in Music Thesis:
Orchestra, Deconstructed
Orchestra, Deconstructed is an interactive music exhibit featuring the works of living female composers. This exhibit is created by rehearsing with a full orchestra, and then recording musicians 1 by 1 and putting the recordings back together in a physical space, allowing audience participants to walk through this space and call upon the specific part in which the musician would have normally been playing. Creating a “deconstruction” of the traditional orchestra. This way, depending on how many people are walking through the space and how they’re interacting with the space, the exhibit will always sound different, and audience members get the experience of feeling like they’re a musician in the orchestra.
Personal Statement:
Xinru Li started her time at Brown with Professor Steinbach and Arlene’s Intro to Music Theory sequence before exploring subjects such as conducting, musicology, and electronic music. Outside of class, Xinru found a home in the music community through the Brown University Orchestra, music directing various musical theater, and other musical involvements in and out of the department. Xinru’s thesis involving an interactive exhibit examining the orchestra can be found at xinruli.com/thesis. Xinru is in the process of rehoming her 100+ plants before her move to Seattle, where she hopes to continue to be involved in music.
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