While I have taken many of my pre-established skills and techniques into my work at school, I have tried to make much of it something that feels distinctly separate from my primary practice to expand creatively and get the most out of each assessment. However, the pressure brought on by my primary practice has begun to take a toll on me, and it is becoming more challenging to balance my schoolwork and satisfyingly work as an artist. I would like to use this spatialization assessment to bridge the gap between the two and create a model for expanding my art within the context of school in a manner that serves both environments. My initial idea is to somehow reflect my presence as a performer within the space of the octophonic ring without using my actual body. When hearing a lot of the multi-channel work, I felt that it included a lot of immersive sound with fluid spatial panning that was very subtle and delicate in nature. With my already somewhat brutal and chaotic sound design techniques and aggressive performance style, I would like to explore using spatial audio in a similarly violent and dynamic way. While I don’t have a full concept, imagining the sonic phenomena produced by using the system this way is very exciting, and if it can open up a possibility to merge my practice with this assessment, I feel I will be able to create something meaningful and compelling.