Molly Joyce

Portfolio for West Chester University - Instructor/Assistant Professor of Studio Composition Position

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

Work #1

Secret Love (2017) 6’

  • for vintage toy organ, voice, and electronic processing

  • collaboration between composer/performer Molly Joyce, performer Kingsley Ibeneche, director Katie Sadler, cinematographer Carissa Henderson, actor Carol Hendrickson

  • Produced by Max Rothman, Du’Bois A’Keen, and J.Y. Chun

  • Premiered via ThrdCoast

Work #2

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

Selected Excerpt (1’25’’):

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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:

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Work #4

Garden Box (2014) 26’

  • for harp, violin, electronic processing

  • collaboration between composer Molly Joyce and dancer/choreographer Carlye Eckert

  • FP: June 6-7, 2014 as part of the SOAK Festival at the CAVE in Brooklyn, NY

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.