the biophony project

Closer

An invitation addressed to “My dearly beloveds” seeds a first-time collaborative composition. An offering to choose your own adventure, touch your traces, notice your presence, find each other, hear each other be found amidst chaos, beauty, distance.

Meet the Composer Team

Featured

Mary Prescott

Mary Prescott is a Thai-American interdisciplinary artist, composer and pianist who explores the foundations and facets of identity and social conditions through experiential performance. She aims to foster understanding and create pathways for change by voicing emotional and human truths through artistic investigation and dissemination.

Prescott’s output includes several large-scale interdisciplinary works, opera, improvised music, sound journaling, film music, solo and chamber concert works.

Prescott is an awardee of the National Performance Network Creation and Development Fund supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts; a National Performance Network Documentation and Storytelling Grant; a New Music USA Project Grant; an American Composers Forum Create Commission supported by the Jerome Foundation; The American Opera Project Composers and the Voice Fellowship; an Opera America New Works Forum Grant; and several state and regional awards. She has been commissioned by Roulette Intermedium, Living Arts of Tulsa, White Snake Projects, Public Functionary, Piano Teachers Congress of NY, Shepherdess Duo, and Duo Harmonia. She has held artist residencies with Roulette Intermedium, Lanesboro Arts, Hudson Hall, Areté Venue and Gallery, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, The League of Independent Theater, and Arts Letters and Numbers.

Anthony Green

The creative output of Anthony R. Green (composer, performer, social justice; he/him/his, b. 1984) includes musical and visual creations, interpretations of original, contemporary, and repertoire works, collaborations, educational outreach, and more. Behind all his artistic endeavors are the ideals of equality and freedom. His compositions and projects have been presented in 25+ countries by various internationally acclaimed soloists and ensembles. He has performed as a pianist, experimental vocalist, movement artist, improvisor, and performance artist in over 10 countries across 4 continents. Green’s most important social justice work has been with Castle of our Skins: celebrating Black Artistry through Music. Green was born on Nacotchtank land (Arlington, VA) and raised on Narragansett and Pauquunaukit land (Providence, RI). He is currently a citizen of the world who will never stop seeking knowledge.

deVon Russell Gray

Stylistic polyglot deVon Russell Gray’s compositions evoke soulful meditations, the envelopment of anxiety in a nurturing sonic cocoon. The new music performer and mood scholar channels celestial fascination manifested in aural familiarity. dVRG intuits through clairaudience a direct connection to our collective musical legacy, as guided by Bach, Ravel, Mingus, Threadgill, and Mumford.

An inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2019-2021)

Recently he was composer-in-residence with Schubert Club of Minnesota (2019-2021)

Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy for Musicians Fellow (2018)

McKnight Composer Fellow (2017)

Explore More Biomes

Each Biome represents a small group collaboration between 2-4 composers commissioned to create flexible, open-score pieces for outdoor performance and infinite combinations of instruments.

More about Biophony

“Biophony" is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.