Molly Jones practices improvisation and composition in Chicago. She plays saxophone and flutes and has performed in jazz, classical, Eastern European, and contradance ensembles, as well as creating multimedia performance and installation work. Her practice comes from a place of playfulness, listening, and attention.
Her 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 and released an art object cassette on Arcane Object in Fall 2020.