PRESS RELEASE: Molly Joyce explores disability as a creative source on Breaking and Entering
Molly Joyce explores disability as a creative source with Breaking and Entering
Composer and performer Molly Joyce's debut full-length album, Breaking and Entering, is out now. The album features Joyce cultivating disability within the human body through a series of electro-acoustic works written and performed by Joyce on her instrument of choice — the vintage electric toy organ.
Breaking and Entering is a highly personal album through which Joyce explores disability as a creative source. She was involved in a car accident at the age of seven that impaired her left hand. As Joyce grew older and pursued her love of music, she searched for an instrument that wouldn’t limit her body or creativity — and found it in a vintage Magnus electric toy organ purchased on eBay. The toy organ’s unique design of chord buttons on the left and keyboard on the right is “made for her body, made for her form, made for her deform,” says Joyce. It engages her disability on a compositional and performative level, allowing her to change from thinking about what notes won’t sound or keys won’t press, but rather the notes that will sound, keys that will press, and experience possibilities from that fundamental difference.
Out now on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music. Read the Road to Sound's first listen feature and find Breaking and Entering on Wilco's spring "Recommends" playlist.
Ted Hearne + Saul Williams' "Place:"
A Premiere with WNYC
On Tuesday, June 9, at 9pm ET, join Ted Hearne and Saul Williams as WNYC premieres a performed-from-quarantine version of Place. After the livestream debut, there will be a discussion on displacement, gentrification and the housing crisis with Hearne, Williams, and Nathalie Joachim, hosted by John Schaefer.
David Hajdu writes in The Nation: "in collaboration, [Hearne & Williams] have created something monumental, an unshakably powerful musical statement on a complex and vital theme." Read the full piece here.
Methods Body's "gnarled hybrid of
free improv, minimalist composition, and dance music" in Pitchfork
Read Pitchfork's thoughtful review of Methods Body's self-titled debut, an album with "so many layers, it generally feels like more music than four hands are capable of producing." Get the album on Bandcamp.