"Wake of Thought" was presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Oklahoma and the EWU Student Research and Creative Works Symposium in 2018. Below is a summary of the process and the associated image:

   The goal of this piece was to create a composition based on gaze tracking from an image. The process involved generating gaze tracking coordinates with conversion to music. For the gaze tracking phase, I used freeware that tracks eye motion when shown a random image. Then in the conversion phase, the data of the locations and durations of the tracked gaze are paired with pitches and note durations. I worked with only the five pitches generated from the image and wrote a narrative to bring words to the project. From the narrative came a poem that was then used as lyrics for a choral composition.