photo credit: University of Virginia, image description: color photo of Molly, a white female with brown hair pulled up. She is in the background of the photo and in the foreground she is holding a small accelerometer ("MUGIC") device with her left hand.
photo credit: University of Virginia, image description: color photo of Molly, a white female with brown hair pulled up. She is wearing a musical sensor ("KAiKU") glove on her left hand, and her right hand is pushing the sensors.
photo credit: University of Virginia, image description: color photo of Molly, a white female with brown hair pulled up. She is holding a small accelerometer ("MUGIC") device with her left hand.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: black and white photo of Molly, a white female with brown hair in a bun. She is wearing a black dress and her hands are clasped together against her chest.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: image description: black and white photo of Molly, a white female with brown hair, looking down at her vintage toy organ.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: Molly, a white female with brown hair and wearing a black dress, glances to the right at her brown vintage toy organ. The photo has a light brown framing around it.
photo by Colin Conces, image description: Molly, a white female with brown hair in a bun, plays her brown vintage toy organ. She is wearing a headband in her hair and a tan and blue striped shirt.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: Molly, a white female with brown hair in a bun, plays her vintage toy organ. She is wearing a black outfit and the photo is taken from her left side, with a yellow/orange glare over the organ.
photo by Maya Smira, image description: Project of a video with blue-sky background and two hands interacting against, with Molly performing in front of it and only face and vocal mic against the video are seen.
photo by Monica McGivern, image description: Molly performs on her brown vintage toy organ. The photo is taken from behind her, and features her hands on the organ. There is a turquoise and white mural behind the organ.
photo by Monica McGivern, image description: Brown vintage toy organ with gold decal, with chord buttons on the left hand side and a keyboard part on the right hand side. The organ is placed on sand with green plants around it, and a turquoise wall behind it.
image description: Molly speaking at TEDxMidAtlantic. She is standing on a small round red carpet with her brown vintage toy organ, and behind her is the logo for TEDxMidAtlantic.
photo by Jiji Kim, image description: Molly, a white female with brown hair in a bun, performs on her brown vintage toy organ. She is wearing a black outfit and there is a grey concrete wall behind her.
photo by Jiji Kim, image description: Molly, a white female with brown hair in a bun, performs on her vintage toy organ. The photo is taken in black and white and is taken from above Molly.
photo by Nadine Sherman, image description: Black and white headshot of Molly, a white female with brown hair in a bun. She is wearing a silvery headband and a necklace.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: Headshot of Molly, a white female with brown hair in a bun. She is wearing three headbands in her and a black shirt with small gold buttons, and is facing down.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: Black and white headshot of Molly, a white female with brown hair in a bun. She is wearing metallic headbands in her hair and is looking at her two hands clasped together.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: Headshot of Molly, a white female with brown hair in a bun, looking to her back right. She is wearing a black shirt and the photo has a yellow/orange glare to it.
photo by Sarah Midkiff, image description: Black and white image of Molly performing on the toy organ. The image is taken from her right side and shows her right hand on the keyboard and left hand on the chord buttons. She is wearing a black shirt with black leggings, and there are iPhone headphones in her ears.
photo by Nir Arieli, image description: Headshot of Molly, a white female with brown hair, taken from above. She is looking forward and wearing a black shirt with a blue necklace, and is against a red background.
photo by Nir Arieli, image description: Headshot of Molly, a white female with brown hair, looking to her right. She is wearing a black shirt and her right hand is against her left shoulder.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: Black and white headshot of Molly, a white female with her hair in a bun. The photo is taken from her back and she is looking to her right, and her hands are clasped against her chest.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: Headshot of Molly, a white female with brown hair, looking to her right. Her left hand is clasping her right shoulder.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: Black and white image of Molly performing on her vintage toy organ. The image is taken from her left side.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: Black and white image of Molly, a white female with brown hair. She is looking to her left and is wearing a black dress.
photo by Shervin Lainez, image description: Photo of Molly sitting down and playing her toy organ. She is looking to her left and her hands are placing on her toy organ.
photo by Colin Conces, image description: Photo of Molly performing on her vintage toy organ. She is standing and her hands are on the toy organ, and she is wearing a blue and tan shirt.
Chamber arrangements of songs focusing on disability as a creative source, premiered with New Music Detroit in Sept. 2023 at Newlab in Detroit, MI.
Piano: Justin Snyder
Cello: Úna O'Riordan
Percussion: Matthew Duvall
Audio/video: Dave Schall Acoustic
I was a figure was created as part of an evening-length collaboration with dancer Jerron Herman, premiering in November 2019 at Danspace Project in New York, NY. Herman and I have parallel impaired left sides yet through different sources (congenital and acquired disability), and in our collaborations, we often explore such shared terrain from different sources. I was a figure is the opening song in the collaboration, and questions notions of being born with a disability versus acquiring one, ultimately embracing the brokenness and openness of the disabled experience.
Video by Four/Ten Media: https://fourtenmedia.net
Sound mixing/mastering by Michael Hammond: https://bigship.net
Crip covers Radiohead's classic song Creep, extending the lyrics to address the stigmatization of the term "crip." In recent decades "crip" has been embraced by disability communities to counter its historical derogatory association (ex. "Crip Camp" documentary on Netflix). By developing the lyrics and the song's meaning in this direction, I hope to offer meaningful and unexpected insights on reimagining disability and its ramifications.
Form and Flee – created in collaboration with Four/Ten Media, from debut album Breaking and Entering, released on New Amsterdam Records. Premiered via I Care If You Listen.
The End – created in collaboration with Maya Smira at Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, China.
Left and Right – created in collaboration with Olga Stucker, as part of Zürich Academy of the Arts’s 2018 Research Academy
Can You – excerpt from collaborative work with Jerron Herman, video produced by Four/Ten Media
Body and Being — collaboration with Jerron Herman and produced by The Roof Films (Jack Frerer and Liana Kleinman)
Form and Deform — filmed by Evan Chapman (Four/Ten Media) and premiered via I Care If You Listen
Shapeshifter — off of Lean Back and Release EP on New Amsterdam Records and featuring violinist Monica Germino. Video by Kevin Eikenberg (Four/Ten Media) and premiered via The Log Journal
Trailer for Mechanica – collaboration with virtual reality artist Leo Castaneda