Molly Joyce

Portfolio for Princeton University - Composition Ph.D. Program

Contents: Music Videos, Recordings, and Scores
+ Supplemental Works and Information Below

Work #1

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):
starts at pp. 3-12 in score

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 (3’30’’):
starts at p. 12, m. 101 in score

Full Work (8’30’’):

Work #3

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)

Selected Excerpts:

Full Work:

Work #4

Form (2017-18) 24’

  • for soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet, soprano saxophone/baritone saxophone, percussion

  • commissioned by VONK Ensemble, with support from Fonds Podiumkunsten

  • text by Molly Joyce

  • FP: January 21, 2018 at Podium 111 in Tilburg, Netherlands

Selected Excerpt:
5’30’’ excerpt (starts at p. 8, m. 1 in score)

Full Work:

Book Chapters
Bell, A. & Joyce, M. (2023). Else: Feminist Disability Theory and Music Education. In Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education. (forthcoming, abstract submitted)

Joyce, M. (2022). Virtuosity of the Self. In C. Hope & L. Devenish (Eds.), Contemporary Notions of Musical Virtuosities. (forthcoming, abstract submitted)

Joyce, M. (2022). Seeking Virtuosity from Disability. In A. Bell & S. Sunandan Honisch (Eds.), Disability Studies in Music Education. (forthcoming)

Joyce, M., & Guttman, S. (2022). Perspective: Highlighting Disabled Contributors on Access, Care, Interdependence, and more through a Socially-Engaged and Interdisciplinary Artistic Project. In A. Cachia (Eds.), Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation. Routledge. (forthcoming)

Journals
Joyce, M. (2022). Disabled Artists and Sustainability. Peripeti (forthcoming).

Online Publications
Joyce, M. (2021, March 18). Highlighting Disabled Female Leaders in Foreign Policy. Women in Foreign Policy. www.womeninforeignpolicy.org/the-zig-zag/foreign-policy-disabled-leaders

Joyce, M. (2020, August 12). Moving and thriving alongside the physicality of disability: the work of Jerron Herman. Disability Arts Online. www.disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/moving-and-thriving-alongside-the-physicality-of-disability-the-work-of-jerron-herman

Joyce, M. (2020, June 2). Redefining Musical Experience: The Work of Stefan Sunandan Honisch. Disability Arts Online. www.disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/redefining-musical-experience-the-work-of-stefan-sunandan-honisch

Joyce, M. (2020, January 29). Presenting disability arts within the visual arts – a US perspective. Disability Arts Online. www.disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/presenting-disability-arts-within-the-visual-arts-a-us-perspective

Joyce, M. (2018, April 1). Beyond Ability: Reimagining Normative Bodies in Music. 21CM.

Conference Presentations
Joyce, M. (2022, June 30-July 3). Virtuosity of the Self [Conference presentation]. Society for Artistic Research, Online.

Joyce, M. (2022, March 22-26). Virtuosity of the Self [Conference presentation]. Society for Applied Anthropology, Online.

Joyce, M., & Guttman, S. (2022, March 3-4). Perspective [Conference presentation]. Disabilities at the Intersection of History, Culture, Religion, Gender, and Health, Online.

Joyce, M. (2021, April 18). Reimagining the Vision of Dance: Kayla Hamilton’s Nearly Sighted/Unearthing the Dark [Conference presentation]. Society for Disability Studies, Online.

Joyce, M. (2021, March 23). Reimagining the Vision of Dance: Kayla Hamilton’s Nearly Sighted/Unearthing the Dark [Conference presentation]. Society for Applied Anthropology, Online.

Joyce, M. (2020, June 23). Molly Joyce on Rethinking Interdependence through Disability Perspectives [Conference presentation]. Americans for the Arts Annual Convention, Online.

Joyce, M. (2017, October 28). Beyond Ability [Conference presentation]. TEDxMidAtlantic, Washington, DC.