for ~Nois(Julian Velasco, Hunter Bockes, János Csontos, Jordan Lulloff) + me 
performed at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, March 7, 2023

insides out

performed by Madeline Hildebrand (piano), Carina Yee (violin), Mark Stewart (electric guitar), and Lucy McKnight (voice + electronics) for a Bang on a Can Summer Festival Recital at MASS MoCA July 26, 2023

no chance , no parts

performed by Kennedy Taylor Dixon (voice + viola), Elizabeth Kate Hall-Keough (voice + cello), Lucy McKnight (voice + cello), and Sam Zagnit (voice + bass) at MASS MoCA for a Bang on a Can Summer Festival Lunch Recital July 26, 2023

fated joy

In this piece, warp & weft, performed April 12, 2022, I collaborated with my dear friend, Andrea Camacho, an incredible singer/composer/fashion designer, to create a piece in which we explore singing while embracing each other. How would it feel to produce sound when connected through movement and touch, and how would this touch, one chest vibrating against another vibrating chest, affect our sound, our emotions, and our choices in the performance? With scraps of textile waste, Andrea and I designed and constructed patchwork outfits connected to an over 125-foot-long patchwork casing for coil-wrapped magnets. The long patchwork wove through four rows of the middle section of seats in the concert hall to connect and involve those sitting there in our intimate experience. I sent our live sound, captured by wireless lavalier mics, to the magnets throughout the fabric, to translate the vibration and warmth Andrea and I experienced together on stage. Those who opted to sit in those four rows were welcome to hold our voices in their hands, feel our sound and connection against their own bodies, and embrace our embrace. To see the performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EJDOqGq69I

warp & weft

for solo cello & tinfoil speaker sculpture

performed by Nick Photinos October 10, 2023 at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University

CRINKLE CUDDLE CRUMPLE CRUNCH

written and performed by Lucy McKnight (voice/cello) with So Percussion at Princeton University, May 15, 2024

!&_+~_~+_&! (grief song)

“presence of your absence” is a swirling wordless grief gremlin. It’s a singing through the heaviness, a holding of all sorts of absences that weigh thick upon me. The loss of my father, my cat, my partner’s father, one of my first composition mentors. The difficulty of tending to a romantic partnership aching with distance—both geographical and emotional. It’s a stumbling, reaching for grounding, reaching for joy, for pleasure.

written for myself and Ensemble Klang for the Gaudeamus Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands, September 2024.

presence of your absence - Lucy + Ensemble Klang

“presence of your absence” is a swirling wordless grief gremlin. It’s a singing through the heaviness, a holding of all sorts of absences that weigh thick upon me. The loss of my father, my cat, my (now ex-) partner’s father, one of my first composition mentors. The difficulty of tending to a romantic partnership aching with distance—both geographical and emotional. It’s a stumbling, reaching for grounding, reaching for joy, for pleasure.

written originally for myself and Ensemble Klang then reimagined/arranged for myself (voice/piano/percussion ahhhhh!) and Attacca Quartet (Amy Schroeder, Domenic Salerni, Nathan Schram, and Andrew Yee) 

performed December 3, 2024 in Taplin Auditorium at Princeton University 

mixing and mastering by Matthew Parrish
video by Four/Ten Media - https://youtu.be/aiXYqjaA6fs

presence of your absence - Attacca Quartet + Lucy

god only knows

sloppy late night improvised layers of harmony soup to cover one of my favorite nick hakim songs

happen by nick hakim (cover)

oo uh ah ee ay ah

Composed by Lucy McKnight, performed by Yoko Rosenbaum (piano), Phoebe Chu (cello), Daniel Galeano (clarinet), and Diana Momjian (flute)

Iceland - III. Pipa Orgell Foss (Pipe Organ Waterfall)- McKnight

Iceland - II. Jökulvatn (Glacial Lake) - McKnight

This piece explores the feelings and imagery of my experiences in sauna and ice plunging during my study abroad in Finland.

Premiered at New Music on the Point June 18, 2018

Thanks to the incredible musicians/friends who made it happen:
John Pickford Richards (viola), Elijah Spies (viola), Louise King (cello), Laura Nygren (bass), Will Yager (bass)

plunge

Premiered by USC Thornton Symphony in Bovard Auditorium 2/20/19
Conducted by Donald Crockett

Glacier Death - for orchestra

performed by Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Marc Desmons

June 25, 2019 @ Maison de la Radio Studio 105, Paris, France

cover art by Jackie Andrews

Thunderhead - for orchestra

Written for and performed by Longleash Trio - Pala Garcia (violin), John Popham (cello), and Renate Rohlfing (piano) - in August, 2019

score art by Jacqueline Andrews

infested                      

infested - Longleash Trio

wreathe and rove

composer/singer/cellist from los angeles
pursuing a PhD in Music Composition at Princeton University

Lucy McKnight

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