0.4 Acknowledgments and thanks
I very much need to thank Louise Meintjes, Tim Lenoir, Scott Lindroth, and especially my advisor Stephen Jaffe for their intellectual guidance, support, and encouragement.
I would also like to thank George Lam, Lin Shu-yi, Alexis Clark, and Jillian Johnson for their kindness and material support; without them, many of the performances that are part of this project would not have happened.
I am lucky to have benefited from thoughtful and skillful performances from a long list of instrumentalists, many of whom are also my friends. My sincere thanks goes to Sarah Griffin, Dan Ruccia, Kirill Zikanov, Alex Kotch, Alex Kritchevsky, Yana Lowry, Tim Hambourger, Jonathan Wall, Brian Howard, Heidi Wait, Jonathan Salter, Ken Stewart, Darren Mueller, Dave Garner, Michael Wood, Peter Dong, Finn Cohen, Robert Biggers, Karen Cook, Zach Corse, Melanie Stratton, Megan Dawson, Tim Stallmann, and Jamie Keesecker for their superior performance efforts. Further thanks goes to Ollie Bown, Tim Kiernan, Paul Leary, Todd Atlas, Emily Antoon, Percy Kelley, and Rick Nelson for their help facilitating my performance opportunities.
Any project with a strong conceptual component such as this one relies on aesthetic and intellectual input from outside observers; my friends Ignacio Adriasola and Dane Nester offered many suggestions that expanded and refined my thinking.
Finally, I would like to thank my family, Josephine Crawford, David Crawford, and Atticus Crawford, for their love and encouragement during my time working on this project.