We Might Have Been A River is the sonic companion to the poetry collection of the same name, published in 2024 with the University of Washington as Emma’s MFA thesis. Each track corresponds to a poem of the same name in the collection, blending style and interpretation of the project’s themes of dissonance, interdependence, and isolation.

The Edge is the culminating sound piece of the hybrid work, We Might Have Been a River, performed live at the University of Washington Bothell Student Showcase in the spring of 2024.

Named after the poem, “In The Future, We Held Each Other” by Jane Wong, the tracks in this collection were developed during a sound engineering class on subversive world building taught by the artist, Slowfoam, hosted by Soundial. The project explores the boundaries between inner worlds and outside realities, imagining liberated futures.

Transit explores the relationship between nature and machine, marking the movement of water and human bodies. The parallels of stream and tunnel. Corridors, containment, opening.