Photo by Noah Elliott Morrisson
OPTION presents: Molly Jones
This week Option features Molly Jones. As an extension of the regular Monday night concert series, Option curators invite artists to perform, improvise and discuss their work on the Quarantine Concerts stage.
”I have had the pleasure of hearing Molly’s sound world develop beautifully over the short time that she has been in Chicago. Her saxophone improvisations, while informed by the past, are clearly blazing a way forward into the future. In addition, her electro acoustic work, incorporation of video, and use of ‘electro acoustic environments’ as vehicles for improvisation gives her work a multi - dimensional range that’s both noteworthy and unique."
- Tim Daisy, Option curator
Molly Jones’ compositions range from through-composed chamber works to graphic scores to electroacoustic environments for improvisation, incorporating video, movement, and words.
She has performed with musicians including Saul Williams, Nicole Mitchell, Tyshawn Sorey, Robert Ashley, Jaribu Shahid, Ed Sarath, Kei Akagi, Alex Harding, Paul de Jong, Wadada Leo Smith, Andrew Bishop, Douglas Ewart, Joo Won Park, Elliott Sharp, Cheick Hamala Diabate, Marion Hayden, Matt Kiroff, Angel Bat Dawid, and many friends in the US and Canada. She has been commissioned by organizations including ThreeForm, the Detroit Composers’ Project, and Detroit Fringe theater festival; her video installations have been presented at Rooms To Let Cleveland, FireFish Festival, and Detroit Contemporary; and her poetry can be found in Saul Williams’ Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, Matchbox Magazine, and her zine Moon Jar.
She premiered her opera-ballet Acting On Air in October 2019.
Tune in to the conversation at: ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts