UC San Diego

ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION

The Trailer Project

by

Berglind María Tómasdóttir

Doctor of Musical Arts in Contemporary Music Performance University of California, San Diego, 2013 Professor John Fonville, Chair

For quite a while I have been fascinated by the effect a concert setting has on a listener's

perception of a live music performance. In 2011, I started a project based on that interest, which I called The Trailer Project. This document addresses this project from the 2011 concert tour, during which I traveled around Iceland and gave flute performances inside a caravan, to a documentary I made about the tour, entitled The Caravan Concerts. The documentary also serves as an autobiographical work about my exploration of my musical identity.