Molly Joyce

Portfolio for University of Chicago - Assistant Professor of Music Composition Position

Contents: Music Videos, Recordings, and Scores
+ Supplemental 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)
pp. 3-12 in score

Work #2

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

1’53’’ excerpt

Full Work:

5’20’’ work

Work #3

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:
starts at p. 8, m. 1 in score

Full Work:

Work #4

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:

Conferences + Publications:

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)

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, March 30-April 1). 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.