Myranda studied the music of West Africa for several years under Professor and Paramount Chief Gideon Alorwoyie during her time at University of North Texas. Her interest in Ewe drumming and dancing led her to spend a summer abroad studying with local musicians in the...
Myranda began studying South Indian Karnatak classical music in 2007 with the respected mrdangamvidwan Poovalur Srinivasan (“Sriji”) at the University of North Texas. Learning about Karnatak improvisational techniques from Sriji changed her worldview on rhythm and inspired her to pursue the classical music of South...
Recent scholarship has revealed that the representation of Karnatic music as a “classical” art form in South Indian society was a complicated process bound to the agendas of larger early twentieth-century nationalist projects in India. This thesis explores the notions of classicalness as they are...
This paper explores the way improvisation served as a symbol of freedom and resistance and as a mediator for transnational artistic exchanges in the wake of 1960s counterculture and civil rights movements. It looks at the way that narratives on freedom and resistance circulated through...
This paper examines the curious intersection between Indian music and Sanskritic Hindu values, texts, and ritual by looking at the ways in which the Vedic origins of India’s music are reified in modern-day classical music practice....
While a student at the University of North Texas, Myranda was involved in as many percussion ensembles as the hours in the day would allow. Studying music at UNT gave her a strong foundation in Western classical and marching percussion while also providing her an...
Myranda often says that the best part of pursuing her PhD in Ethnomusicology at UT-Austin was serving as teaching assistant for the ethnomusicology ensembles at Butler School of Music. In this role, she performed at concerts and events with other ensemble members while also functioning...
Myranda has been the percussionist for Ask-i Mesk for more than a year. She plays doumbek, riq, and frame drum in this ensemble that explores the challenging and intricate repertoire of urban and classical Turkish music, similar to the way you’d hear this repertoire performed...
Myranda played drumset and cajon in the group Sangat, a collaborative music project that was organized alongside an exchange program at UT’s South Asia Institute through grant funding from the U.S. Department of State....
Taka Doom is a relatively new music project that is still taking shape. Started in 2015, the original impetus behind the ensemble was to combine the rhythmic improvisational processes of Hindustani and Karnatak music with the underlying metric foundation of Turkish rhythmic modes and drum...