Projects & Research
Yeah, I'm a nerd :)
Disney's Toontown Online, originally released in 2003, has been one of my favorite games since childhood. Sadly, Disney shut the game down in 2013... but the Toontown community has kept the game alive through fanservers, such as Toontown Rewritten, Toontown: Corporate Clash, and Toontown: Operation Desert Storm! In January 2025, I joined the development team for a new pre-launch fanserver, Toontown: Event Horizon (TTEVH). I'm on TTEVH's music composition team under the pseudonym Laser Pointer, working to create high-quality, immersive soundtracks that pull upon diverse cultural influences.
Image of my toons by Pandy101, another member of the TTEVH dev team.
I've long been interested in learning, performing, and preserving Irish culture and traditions. In an ongoing effort to make Irish music & related folk musics more accessible, I joined thesession.org and began transcribing music that traces back to Ireland, Scotland, Nova Scotia, and (a recent addition) Newfoundland.
In the Works:
Carolan and the Concerto Connection
As part of my Masters program at Memorial University, I'm writing a research paper examining the influence of classical music on the compositions of the infamous Irish harpist, Turlough O'Carolan. The paper will be available to read online as of May 2026!
Ongoing:
Music Literacy Resource List
Music literacy rates are falling. This means both that sheet music is becoming less accessible and that we’re experiencing widespread cultural loss of agency over the media we consume. We’re at risk of losing history. To combat this, I've developed a music literacy resource list! This list is aimed primarily at violinist & violists, and is designed to aid students and teachers in developing music literacy through accessible online resources.
During 2023, near the end of my senior year at Miami University, I worked with a handful of peers to bring to life the beautiful compositions of Andrew Levin, a violist, pianist, and retired professor of Clemson University.
This individual project was created as part of a larger effort to make music education available to all. My website is published online and is open-access. The goal of my Garofalo site is as a guide for music educators to use should they choose to use March to the Scaffold as repertoire in their string orchestra classroom.
This project was aimed at researching the various eras of western classical music. For each era, I was tasked with identifying the contexts & characteristics for each era, as well as doing an analysis of a work from each era.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is a subject of utmost importance in music. This project is a result of a unit in my collegiate Music History course, and explores DEI issues within the classical music community, as well as how to solve those issues.
As the final project for my Counterpoint class, I was tasked with writing a traditional baroque fugue. The main theme of my project was inspired by the opening statements of Bach's Little Fugue in G minor.
In this group project, I explored the Social Foundations in Education, Critical Race Theory, the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and various other aspects of the American education system.
In this project, I researched Green Day's album American Idiot. I explored the political connections of the album, as well as the voices/characters it represents and the album's overall messages.
In this research project, I investigated the origins of the modern violin & violin bow.
In this paper, I researched traditional notation and piano roll notation; my goal was to determine which, if either, was more effective as a way of teaching music literacy.
In this research project, I researched cross-curricular connections and accessibility in music, as well as the benefits of music & community involvement in public education.
This project was incredibly fun! I worked with my CCA 202 class to create, market, publish, and release a pop single. I led the creative team, participating in the composition, songwriting, recording, and mastering processes. The song is now available on all major streaming services -- just search for Arizona Bound by Auxford Records!
In this white paper, I researched current copyright laws and issues with them, as well as copyright standards, procedures, and misconceptions.
In this paper, I researched music braille -- a system of writing music for visually impaired individual. Through the paper, I came to understand how it's read and written, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of braille music.
