bio
Melissa Grey is a composer–producer and educator whose music and sound practice engages relationships among sound, space, and human and non–human perception. Since 2009, she has taught the graduate seminar, Sound Studies, at The New School, New York, working with students across disciplines to sharpen their understanding of the science and perception of sound. Her work has received recognition from American Music Center; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, American Music Center, Composer Assistance Program and others. She is a Board Member, Vice-President (2016-), of the violin duo, Miolina.
In 2016, she joined forces with composer-producer David Morneau, establishing a “wholly original” and “inventive” practice. Their work has received the following acclaim: “production is masterfully realized and consistently creative,” “beautiful and transcendent,” “hypnotic allure,” “a masterclass on how to utilize space,” “a masterpiece,” “a completely unique sonic world,” and “shows technical mastery… exudes fun… imaginative.”
In 2023, Grey & Morneau released Always Becoming (2023), a collaborative composition with Robert Kirkbride (former Dean, Parsons School of Constructed Environments). In 2022, they designed a soundscape for the exhibition space for The Empty S(h)elf, a project by the artist-curator Angela Grauerholz, in collaboration with designer Réjean Myette, at Occurrence – Space in Montreal. Grey & Morneau were awarded the 2018 Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professors of the Arts, College of Arts and Media, School of Music, Marshall University in West Virginia, and were the subjects of the documentary Ao Vivo no Casarão | Lado B by Cristina Gagnebin Müller & Yuri Pires Tavares. Other commissions include: Photon Ecstasy (2016), with artist Dan Rose, featured at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia, PA, and mem mer mère (2019) with cellist Kate Dillingham at the Cultural Center at the Havre de Grace Opera House, Maryland.
In addition to their production and composition practice, Grey & Morneau, since 2014, have jointly curated and produced numerous concert and listening events, including Soft Series, a concert series dedicated to presenting soft premieres and introducing new audiences to new music. This series was live-streamed from Clocktower Radio (“one of the first all-art online museum radio stations in the world”).
