As noted in the degree requirements in the UCI catalogue, “the dissertation in ICIT combines innovative creative activity with scholarly research. The goal of the dissertation is to address a major intellectual issue in the integration of composition, improvisation, and technology, and to make an original contribution to existing knowledge of that issue through research and new artistic work. The tangible product will be a written dissertation that presents and contextualizes substantial innovative work in integrated composition/improvisation/technology, and music of significant scope that clearly demonstrates that work.” The written research thesis is generally expected to be ~25,000 words in length, and the scope of the creative work is expected to be roughly equivalent to a full-length concert of original music.