Work #1

Perspective (2020-present) 20’

• for voice, vintage toy organ, electronic processing

• commissioned by Halcyon Arts Lab

• ongoing project featuring disabled interviewees responding to what access, care, interdependence, and more means to them

• FP: June 23, 2020 as part of Americans for the Arts’ Annual Convention, with further iterations undertaken with Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Netherlands), The Great Northern Festival (Minnesota), and Surel’s Place and Open Arms Dance Project (Idaho)

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Work #2

Form and Flee (2018) 8’30’’

• for voice, vintage toy organ, electronic processing

• created as part of debut album Breaking and Entering, released in June 2020 on New Amsterdam Records. The album is a personal, artistic investigation of my acquired disability through a series of electroacoustic works written and performed on my favorite instrument, the electric vintage toy organ. The instrument suits my disability and physically-different hands well, and has become a primary vehicle in my cultivation of disability as a creative source.

• Form and Flee grapples with the moment of physical sensation and movement leaving one's body, asking where the lost nerves and physicality goes and how the relationship with one's body changes thereafter

• FP: March 3, 2018 by Molly Joyce at The Watermill Center in Water Mill, NY

Selected Excerpt:
starts at p. 12, m. 101 in score

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Work #3

Side by Side (2021) 5’

• for orchestra and video with sound descriptions

• commissioned by Carnegie Hall

• featuring video captions of sound descriptions by blind media artist Andy Slater (which describe aural/sound content for artistic and accessibility purposes, especially helpful for Deaf/hard-of-hearing audiences), video editing by Four/Ten Media, and direction by Austin Regan

• FP: July 21, 2021 world premiere recording by NYO2 Orchestra and conductor Mei-Ann Chen at Purchase College Performing Arts Center in Purchase, NY

Recommended Excerpt: (00:00 to 02:58)
pp. 3-12 in score

Work #4

Left and Right (2021) 21’

• for vintage toy organ, voice, and electronic processing

• collaboration between composer/performer Molly Joyce, choreographer/dancer Jerron Herman, writer/audio describer Max Greyson, and director Austin Regan to examine historical myths of the left versus right side

• commissioned as part of a Toulmin Fellowship with
  National Sawdust and NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts

• FP: April 15, 2021 via National Sawdust’s Digital Discovery Festival

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Work #5

The End (2019) 5’20’’

• for voice, vintage toy organ, electronic processing

• created in collaboration with visual artist Maya Smira

• seeks to illuminate loss of physicality through the combination of video, music, and lyrical language

• music inspired by German singer-songwriter Nico's cover of the classic song from The Doors, and expands to a multi-layered voice and vintage toy organ recording, reckoning with loss of physical sensation and movement and intersecting with multiple camera angles focusing on two physically-different hands

• FP: May 21, 2019 by Molly Joyce at Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, China

Selected Excerpt:
starts at p. 5, m. 58 in score

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