Very fortunate for recent press on toy organ album, especially for a project I long thought was too personal, too physical, and too emotional. Many thanks to all who helped – especially Michael Hammond, New Amsterdam, & Jill Strominger 🙏🙏
MikeyPod Interview
Super honored to be on Michael Harren‘s podcast! including our mutual love of Cocteau Twins and more — listen here.
National Sawdust Digital Discovery Festival
Very honored to share a solo performance as part of National Sawdust’s Digital Discovery Festival!
The program consists of 5 songs exploring the creative possibilities of disability. As someone who acquired a disability nearly 20 years ago, it took about 20 years to identify as and embrace disability as an experience to be explored and enjoyed. I’m very grateful to my collaborators for these works – Marco Grosse, Jerron Herman, Maya Smira, Bryce Gildner, and Four/Ten Media, and of course to National Sawdust providing a home for artists seeking their own personal discoveries.
Click here to watch.
The Peace Studio’s 100 Offerings of Peace
Very honored to be included in The Peace Studio’s 100 Offerings of Peace for a forthcoming project!
Including contributions from Day Al-Mohamed, Tom Shakespeare, Shannon Finnegan, Alice Wong, David Furukawa & more + a call to support Disability Visibility Project: www.patreon.com/DVP
Breaking and Entering Album
Very excited to announce my debut full-length album Breaking and Entering, out June 5 on New Amsterdam Records! And very grateful to I Care If You Listen for premiering video for first single “Form and Flee” produced by Four/Ten Media — listen/watch here.
Featuring voice, toy organ, electronics, and more in exploring breaking and entering into a new body and disability. Produced and mixed by Michael Hammond and mastered by Joe Lambert + cover art by Shannon Finnegan and Ashley M. Freeby.
Supported by Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and residencies worldwide, including Headlands Center for the Arts (California), AIR Niederösterreich (Krems an der Donau, Austria), De Link (Tilburg, Netherlands), The Watermill Center (New York), Villa Sträuli (Winterthur, Switzerland), Embassy of Foreign Artists (Geneva, Switzerland), Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai, China), and Halcyon Arts Lab (Washington, DC).
Disability Arts Online: Redefining Musical Experience: The Work of Stefan Sunandan Honisch
Honored to profile musicologist Stefan Sunandan Honisch for Disability Arts Online! Including his perspectives on the complexities and possibilities for disabled musicians today — read the full article here.
Bang on a Can Marathon
Honored to take part in the recent Bang on a Can Marathon, including premiere of new solo percussion piece by David Cossin! Reviews from New York Times here and Financial Times here.
“But far more present was the collective’s progeny: the milky repetitive vibraphone of Molly Joyce’s ‘Purity'”– Zachary Woolfe, New York Times
“virtuoso solos…from percussionist David Cossin, who brought hallucinatory beauty to another premiere, Molly Joyce’s Purity.” – Richard Fairman, Financial Times
Bec Plexus in New York Times
Very honored to be included in the below New York Times article by Seth Colter Walls, featuring Bec Plexus’s recent album Sticklip!
Read the article here + album out now on New Amsterdam Records : becplexus.bandcamp.com/album/sticklip
Bec Plexus / GVSU New Music Ensemble Recordings
Super honored to be included on 2 albums released today! Bec Plexus’s Sticklip on New Amsterdam Records (https://lnk.to/sticklp) and Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble’s Dawn Chorus on Innova Recordings (https://songwhip.com/album/grand-valley-state-university-new-music-ensemble/dawn-chorus) 🙏🙏
Evan Chapman “Caustics”
Listen and enjoy here: evanmchapman.bandcamp.com/album/caustics