Rachel Horner (she/her) is a PhD candidate in music and sound studies at Cornell University. She holds an MA in musicology and a BM in vocal music education and Spanish from Rutgers University. Rachel’s research investigates the intersections between sound, language, and identity, especially in the context of Spanish and Latin American cultural festivals. Her dissertation project, tentatively titled “Sentint les Falles: Sounding the Intangible Archive of València’s Falles Festival,” builds on six years of ethnographic fieldwork with musicians, pyrotechnicians, festival participants, and other cultural stakeholders in the Falles Festival of València, Spain. It centers three core domains of sound—language, noise, and music—to reveal how sound acts as a mode of preservation despite its rapid disappearance, generating an intangible archive of feelings, behaviors, and beliefs within and beyond the festival. Through its cycles of presence and non-presence, sound catalyzes the ever-changing intangible archive of the festival and heightens the performance of festive sociability in ways that ripple outward into social life. Rachel is editorial assistant of the quarterly journal American Music and assistant director of Cornell Writing Centers.