This document traces the evolution of my musical work of the past three years. It presents some of the interests I had developed over the course of my qualifying examinations for the PhD at the University of California San Diego, and discusses how they have affected my compositional projects. Three major projects are included in this portfolio: 1) while twigs make minor adjustments, an 8-minute chamber composition for soprano and Pierrot ensemble commissioned and premiered in March 2015 by UCSD's Palimpsest Ensemble, 2) new true mirrors, furrowed, flooded, extended quite far, an 11-minute composition for large orchestra and treble choir with two violin soloists, written for the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus as the recipient of their 2016-17 season's Thomas Nee Commission, and 3) my site-specific sound design installations for The Human Body Time Machine, an evening-length collaboratively created dance production performed as the UCSD Theatre & Dance Department's 2017-18 season's gradWORKS production.