Logline: An unknowing beachcomber begins to transform into an extraterrestrial being after discovering an otherworldly skeleton beneath the sand. Synopsis: Tourist season has come to an end in the sleepy coastal town of Breaker’s Bay. The beaches are empty, but beneath the sand are treasures to be had. Items lost, forgotten by the past visitors of the sandy beaches of the North Coast, a beachcomber’s paradise. Molly Faye, a local beachcomber is about to wrap up her day of scanning the miles of endless beaches when she receives a faint signal on her metal detector. What she unearths at first appears to be a delicate piece of jewelry, but what it is attached to proves to be problematic...

Makani Bright performing Bob Becker's xylophone solo titled, "Girlfriends Medley" with Aaron Lopez providing piano accompaniment.

Video of the Humboldt State Calypso Band performing Pan In Unity in Fulkerson Recital Hall featuring Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe from Trinidad & Tobago as the Featured Soloist. The video with credits is 7 minutes and 37 seconds long.

Osprey magazine reporter and photographer Julie Navarro won the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists Feature Photography award for her story, “Black Lives Matter: The digital mobilization of citizen journalists.” Navarro is a critical race and gender studies major and this was her first time working on student journalism Osprey magazine. “I really wanted to share something that would be meaningful for all to see,” Navarro said. “It means a lot to me being part of documenting history.”

The song Travessia (1967) is the title track on brazilian singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento's first studio album. The portuguese title translates to "bridges," which Nascimento used to sum up the transition felt during heartbreak. In 1980, brazilian jazz guitarist Paulinho Nogueira played a version of the Travessia on solo guitar with an additional intro. I found the music to Nogueira's version but I there were two main challenges in playing it on vibraphone: I needed to transpose the piece from E to F and I needed to find a way to express six-note guitar chords with four mallets. This piece was an immense challenge, but that felt like a slight inconvenience compared the joy it gave me.

"But why should one consider dreams, those flimsy, elusive, unreliable, vague, and uncertain phantasms, at all?" - C. G. Jung

Aviary is a short film, made during the fall of 2020, in a film three production class. The story is about a woman dealing with agoraphobia (the fear of leaving one’s house), who must conquer her anxieties when her grocery delivery is placed too far from her comfort zone of reach.

My intention with this story is to explore the triumph of love in the face of imperfection and the inescapable qualities of the Self.

Grieg wrote his only piano sonata early in his life, when he was still learning how to be a composer. It is an imperfect work, but very emotional and passionate. I play only the first movement, Allegro moderato.

HSU Wind Ensemble Virtual Performance Title: Conga del Fuego Nuevo Composer: Arturo Marquez After Covid-19 caused all activities to go online, the HSU Wind Ensemble created virtual performance videos of several works for wind band. This piece, by living Mexican composer Arturo Marquez, celebrates a pre-Colombian Mexican event known as the new fire ritual.