Molly Joyce - State Change

Format: LP 
Catalogue No.: LP13-70
Barcode: 0600116137012
Release Date: 11 Jul 2025
Genre: Electronic, Experimental

 ‘State Change’ is an album that utilises surgical records as musical lyrics, combined with aural material produced with various accelerometer and motion capture systems. The album seeks to underscore the aural with the medical, ultimately seeking a musical manifestation of acquired disability.
 Molly’s interest in this area stems from her personal experience acquiring a disability. At the age of seven, she was involved in a car accident that nearly amputated her left hand. Following the accident, Molly transitioned from various musical instruments to find one she could adapt to. More recently, this has led to engaging with various music technologies that fit her body, such as accelerometers and motion capture technology.
 ‘State Change’ showcases Molly’s experimentation with these technologies, with the surgical records as lyrical material, and production and engineering support from GRAMMY-award-winning producer William Brittelle and engineer Michael Hammond at Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn, NY. Guest appearances include Fire-Toolz (Angel Marcloid).
 Molly Joyce has been deemed one of the “most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome” by The Washington Post, among others. Her work is concerned with disability as a creative source. Her most recent album, ‘Perspective’, featuring voices and viewpoints of disabled interviewees, was praised by Pitchfork as “a powerful work of love and empathy that underscores the poison of ableism in American culture.” 
 Molly’s creative projects have been presented and commissioned by Carnegie Hall, GM Europe, TEDxMidAtlantic, SXSW:EDU, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Bang on a Can Marathon, Americans for the Arts, National Sawdust, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, National Gallery of Art and Classical:NEXT. She is a graduate of Juilliard, Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Yale, and alumnus of the YoungArts Foundation. She holds an Advanced Certificate and Master of Arts in Disability Studies from CUNY School of Professional Studies, and is a Dean’s Doctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia in Composition and Computer Technologies. She has served on the composition faculties of New York University, Wagner College and Berklee Online.

Tracklisting
August 6, 1999
August 9, 1999
August 13 + 16, 1999 (feat. 
Fire-Toolz)
November 24, 1999
April 19, 2000
October 26, 2001
July 27, 2007