I feel mountains of gratitude for a lot of people that supported me on this journey.

The most intense bursting feeling is of infinite love to my incredible incredible husband Tim Murray Browne, my biggest fan and infinite believer in my shenanigans. If it weren't for you I would not be singing right now. If it weren't for you I wouldn't know what a completely relaxed body that is touched by love feels like. If it weren't for you I wouldn't know how to be myself so completely. It starts and ends with you.

This pandemic research has often felt intensely isolating. The two other people that have accompanied me throughout it are my Glasgow supervisors - Alistair MacDonald and Nick Fells, both of whom I can't ever really thank enough.

Alistair, you've been caring, grounding and infinitely patient with my neverending experiments. Thank you for reminding me that the world can be less complicated than it sometimes appears to me and for your reassurances whenever I've bitten more than I can chew.

Nick... the freedom and risks you've encouraged me to take have helped shape who I am today. Thank you for making it so easy to be myself and for giving so much of yourself to guiding me on this journey. I am humbled and inspired by your wisdom and humanity.

I want to thank Eldad Tsabary, my Concordia University supervisor who has enabled my creativity to manifest in Montreal. Eldad thank you for your inexhaustible energy and dedication to your students. Also at Concordia, I'm sending my joyful vocal vibrations to Noah Drew. Noah, what a gift meeting you was. No one has ever held space for my emotions to manifest through voice prior to meeting you. What you gave me was transformative and is the gift that keeps on giving.

Thanks to the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities for funding this PhD and the Visiting Doctoral Trip to Concordia. Without this support this PhD would not exist. Thanks to the SGSAH team for making it feel like what I do matters. 

A lot of incredible artists contributed to the development of this practice. My heart opens and melts with my old and golden friend Christine Cornwell. Chrissy, we've made such amazing things together - let's be motherfucking proud! Also infinitely indebted to Feronia Wennborg - Feronia, thank you for teaching me sonic patience and sensibility and for being inquisitive, open and honest. A special thanks to Luke Deane for the love, support and creativity you've shared with me. I am so lucky to have you as a friend! Tatiana Rosa and Hessel Moeselaar, thanks for your bravery and open-mindedness in our work together, know that you made a difference! Thanks also to Gabriela Petrov, my partner in body enquiries and fearless improvisation, and to Elyze Venne-Deshaies, Symon Henry and Elisabeth Lusche who shared their incredible musicianship with me. You folks rock! 

An extra big thanks to the musical prowess of Simon Weins, Mark Vernon, Paul Zaba, Jer Reid, Fritz Welch, David Moré, Iain Findlay Walshe and Ceylan Hay - thanks for your generosity and dedication! Also a big thanks to the Nadar team, to Pieter Matthynssens, Veerle Vervoort and Wannes Gonnissen and particularly to Nico Couck, Katrien Gaelens and Dries Tack who moved through the strange performative requests Chrissy and I made with such grace. Thanks for sharing parts of yourselves with us and with the audience! 

Massive thanks also to Susanna Hood in Montreal and Sarah Bild - keep that bodily expression flame burning bright, ladies! Thanks also to Kathy Kennedy for Improv X and to the LePARC team at Concordia for making things happen. Thanks to Mariana Marcassa and Andrew Gray for helping Tim and I feel at home in Montreal. And thanks to the 'Transgressive Sounds and Atmospheres' reading group folks at Concordia, particularly Matthew Unger.

In Glasgow, thanks to Joe White, Michael Paul Henry and Simon Whitehead for the peer mentoring sessions and for holding space for our PhD joys and sorrows - pandemic PhD buddies 4eva! Thanks also To Sam Lou Talbot, Jordan Henderson, Tom Green and Kevin Leomo for making making music feel important. Thanks to Katie Upsdale and Stefania Donini for the much needed lady times together and to Sarah Hopfinger for your kindness and care. Special thanks to Aby Watson for being such a brave neurodivergent artist - babes, you better believe it, we're changing the world for people like us!

Last but not least, a heartfelt thanks to my parents, Cristi and Mihaela Minu, to my brother Ștefan and my grandma Ionica Nazarcu. It has been the sacrifice of our lives to live apart from each other and I know you feel it too. Vă iubesc!