Molly Joyce: Loud and Soft
About the Album
Released May 17, 2024 on Metropolis Ensemble Records
Composer Molly Joyce and Sandbox Percussion explore the transitions from non-pitched to pitched instruments in this new work for percussion quartet. Produced by Metropolis Ensemble with Molly Joyce, Andrew Cyr, and Sandbox Percussion, filmed by Continuous Motion Productions, mixed by Mike Tierney.
Alongside the album, Molly, Sandbox, and Metropolis collaborated to create an interactive web presentation with three video experiences, audio clips, still images, and sound descriptions by Stefan Sunandan Honisch and Andy Slater, which describe the aural content for artistic and accessibility purposes. Taken together, these multimedia elements describe the aural content for artistic and accessibility purposes.
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released May 17, 2024
Molly Joyce, composer
Sandbox Percussion, percussion quartet
Andrew Cyr, producer
Mike Tierney, audio production and mixing
Stefan Sunandan Honshu and Andy Slater, sound descriptions
Armistead Booker, album cover layout
Loud and Soft is a 2022–24 Metropolis Ensemble production, commissioned by Sandbox Percussion and New Music USA, with support from New Music USA's Creator Development Fund and Metropolis Ensemble.
Recorded at Metropolis Ensemble’s event space, One Rivington / Candice Madey Gallery. Filmed by Kenneth Swartout and Joshua Weinfeld from Continuous Motion Productions.
“The work starts in timbral unity for the four percussion parts and eventually becomes a diversified texture. I sought to explore the effects of timbral transitions occurring among various instrumental bodies, when it switches, breaks down, and leads to new possibilities.”
-Molly Joyce
Both behind-the-scenes and on stage, Molly Joyce is an instrumental force behind many of Metropolis Ensemble’s incubator projects at One Rivington and pandemic-born digital projects.
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Molly Joyce
Composer
Both behind-the-scenes and on stage, Molly Joyce is an instrumental force behind many of our Rivington and digital projects, as well as forthcoming commissions for the deaf community. Her work is concerned with disability as a creative source. She has an impaired left hand from a previous car accident, and seeks to explore disability through composition, performance, collaboration, community engagement, and further mediums.
Molly has been deemed one of the “most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome” by The Washington Post. Her music has additionally been described as “serene power” (The New York Times), and “unwavering…enveloping” (New York Magazine). More Info »
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