MFA thesis text situating recent musical compositions in relation to 'weak noise.' The text traces the development of the feedback zither system integral to Folded Cyanotypes —an ongoing series of graphic and text scores—and examines the influence of composers Harry Partch, James Tenney, Éliane Radigue, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Ellen Fullman.

Photography and Design by Kyle Richardson
Poems by Morgan Vo, from Lights of Earth (2019)
Cyanotypes by Josiah Valle Ellis