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  • Melissa Grey

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    grey@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Melissa Grey

    Profile

    Composer, producer, curator and educator. Melissa Grey’s projects include concert works for acoustic instruments, electronics, live processing, installations, performances and concert and event curation-production. 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, they embarked on Sound the Asylum, a large-scale project about acoustics and 19th century asylum architecture. They are developing a growing catalog of immersive audio documentation, recording the aural identity of decaying asylum interiors in unrenovated hospitals with complex histories.

    In her course, Sound Studies, at The New School, she works with students from across disciplines to introduce an awareness of the science, meaning, and perception of sound into their respective creative practices.

    Recent Publications

    2023 Album Release:

    Always Becoming EP

     

    2023 Interviews:

    Pitchperfect. “Melissa Grey, David Morneau, Robert Kirkbride Interview.” 7 March 2023.

    It’s Psychedelic Baby. “Melissa Grey, David Morneau, Robert Kirkbride Interview.” 4 May 2023.

    Performances and Appearances

    2023    

    “Sound the Asylum” by Melissa Grey & David Morneau presented at:

    Sensory Decay Symposium, Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture – Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 3 
     

    "Sound the Asylum" by Melissa Grey & David Morneau installed at:

    Richardson Olmsted Complex, Buffalo, NY for PreservationWorks Buffalo Weekend, September 22-24

    Awards And Honors

    2018    

    Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professor of the Arts, College of Arts and Media, School of Music, Marshall University, WV

    Future Courses

    Sound Studies
    NMDS 5255, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    Sound Studies
    NMDS 5255, Spring 2025

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