[introduction by the committee chair omitted] Thank you. I also want to thank all of you for coming here to support me, and I especially want to thank all of my committee members for choosing to invest your time in me, and I above all want to thank Grisha who has done more for me than I could easily mention in a few sentences. Since I have been here at ASU I have been interested in human-machine interaction in musical contexts, and I think many of you know that I have built this machine I call Kiki, which plays djembe.