Melissa Gray

Melissa Gray is an American composer.

Life

Gray was composer in residence at Tufts University in 2004 , where she composed Hour to Hour for flute, harp, violin and soprano for the Brave New Works ensemble . In addition to works for classical and electroacoustic instruments, Gray composed soundtracks for films and worked on sound installations and multimedia performances with other artists. She oversaw and produced two events with more than twenty international sound and performance artists : Sonic Channels in 2006 (with Adam Trowbridge , Evan Raskob , Harold Jones , Hiroki Nishino , Jacques Burtin , Jonathan Pieslak , Julia Crow , Koji Kawai , Lin Culbertson , Lyudmila German , Maximilian Marcoll , Hannes Seidl , Mioi Takeda , and Susan Robb ) and Transrevelation 2007 (with Paul Ryan and Annea Lockwood , Brian Evans , Eric Hopper , Jaime Rojas , Jan de Weille , Jesse Serrins , Lin Culbertson, Martin McGinn , Rob Voisey , Steve Kornicki , of the VIA Dance Collaborative choreographed by Adrienne Westwood , Harold Jones and Mioi Takeda).

Your own works were u. a. at Artradio at Cornerhouse (UK), Studio 27 in San Francisco, the Macon Georgia Film and Video Festival 2007, the Sarai Media Lab in New Delhi, the Nexus Foundation for Today's Art in Philadelphia and the Merwin and Wakeley Galleries of Illinois Wesleyan University listed or issued.

Works

• Fear no Fear for piano trio, 2002
• Farewell to Earth , electronic sound installation, 2002
• Nest for electronically processed alto saxophone, violin and cello, 2002
• Vertical Terrain , sound installation with Dan Rose , 2002
• Hour to Hour for soprano, flute, harp and violin (text by Alexander Pope ), 2004
• Self Portrait for Video, Flute, Harp Violin and Two Narrators, 2005
• Earlid's multimedia work, music by Melissa Gray, production and design Robert Kirkbride in collaboration with Patricia Beirne and Giselle Leal , 2005–06
• Distress , cassette recording with alto saxophone, violin and cello, which was exposed to moisture and changing temperatures for several years, 2006
• Further Back , digitally processed: soprano, flute, harp and violin, analogue processed saxophone, viola and cello, 2006
• Psychodrama variation for video and composed sound, 2006
• Abyss for flute and violin with tape, 2006
• Appassionato , variations for flute, violin and tape on a theme by Ludwig Wittgenstein , 2006–07
• Music for the documentary Confining Thoughts by Imara Barnett , 2007

source

• Vox Novus - Melissa Gray