projects

many projects i work on are small and passing, and probably won't appear on this page. once in a while, i do something convoluted enough to mention it here.

rally on the airwaves :  technologies of sound and nationalist projects

i am working on an undergraduate thesis in comparative history of ideas at the university of washington, seattle! i'm looking at audio technologies like MIDI and the radio, how nation-state governments use them to rally their populations, and how people push back with their own sounded narratives.

link coming soon!

HebrewClock

as my final project for a computer science class in hebrew year 5781 (gregorian year 2021), i made a command-line tool and java library to manage timestamps using the jewish/hebrew sundial system, and to convert them to and from gregorian/mechanical timestamps when applicable.

click to view the project on codeberg!

perhaps you grew up knowing this rhyme. maybe you knew it as stella ella olla. maybe crock-a-dilly oh my, or pass it to my old man, pass pass pass?  if you grew up in the seattle area, chances are you knew it by its local name, quack diddly oso.

i didn't. i grew up in the bay area, where the rhyme was seldom heard, by any form or name. i first heard it in college.

take a listen and follow me, as i trace the spread of a children's clapping game around the world and into an undergraduate english class. link!