Musical Instruments

I'm an experimental archaeologist with a PhD from Exeter Uni (2016) and a music composer.

I am Brazilian, born in the state of Rio de Janeiro. I have a degree in Dance Theory from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and I am currently a master's student in Archaeology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - National Museum.

Julian Cuvilliez is researcher in Archea-Musicology and reconstruction specialist of European chordophones of the Antiquity and middle ages period. He is founder of the Research Center and Interpretation and Experimental Archaeology.

I am a Professor at the  University of the Witwatersrand (ZA) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bergen (Norway).

As a multifaceted craftsperson I have always been interested in the ''making of" anything really, but more specifically tools, practical objects and decoration. Working with ceramics and incense during my BA ignited more of the interest in experimental archaeology.

Being a prehistoric archaeologist I really think, that science communication is an important topic, and for that I find it a pleasure to work as an educator in a museum. Concerning crafts, my main interest is pottery, and since 2014 I conduct experiments on building Neolithic clay drums.

My PhD in Archaeology, at Edinburgh University, examined the objects interpreted as clay drums, from the Trichterbecher culture (TRB - 3300-2700 BC). During this time, I constructed models of the different drum styles in order to investigate the techniques of attaching a drum-skin.