Emily Mavromates is a musician based in Los Angeles, CA.  Between majoring in Performance Studies and double minoring in Production for Film & TV and Business of Entertainment, Media, & Technology, Emily has remained busy dipping her toes into nearly every sector of the entertainment industry.  During the spring semester of her junior year, she interned at Electric Lady Studios in Manhattan, which inspired her to work towards becoming a recording engineer.  When she is not googling recording equipment, she is working at her local record store, CD Trader.  Emily likes to spend her free time surfing with her sister and obsessing over dogs.  Once she graduates, she plans to spend more time working on her own music in hopes to release an EP by the end of the year.

Title of Capstone Project

Tangible Nostalgia: The Corporeal Property of Memory and Its Use in the Creative Process

Description of Capstone Project

Tangible Nostalgia is a personal archive, consisting of images, videos, sound files, notes, sketches, and things of the like, that addresses the relationship between memory, capture, and notation to elicit nostalgia and provide a personal database for creative or everyday use.  Giving significance to the mundane features that life carries the personal archive can help guide us to an appreciation and understanding of what our lives and experiences have to offer.