premiering September 12
at the
Metropolitan
Museum of Art
created by
STEPHANIE ANN BOYD
SYNESTHETE COMPOSER
Audrey Wright
VIOLINIST IN THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
GEOFF ROBERTSON
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST
ORIGIN STORY
We met in October 2024 when Stephanie saw Geoff’s Stroboscopic Graffiti Machine on instagram, was enchanted, and asked to collaborate at some point in the future.
Geoff and Audrey had already been working on their collaboration Luminous Being and had been hoping to work with a composer for the next version of that project
With Stephanie’s strong orientation in color and background as a violinist herself, this collaboration felt like an organic, uniquely aligned partnership.
Prismbody will explore the intersection of color, light, wave, and resonance. Building on Audrey and Geoff’s Luminous Being, the new piece will unfold as a ten-minute, multi-movement color sequence performed by Audrey with loop pedals (essentially creating an entire ensemble of Audreys, which is a violinist composer’s dream!)
Audrey will be wearing the next iteration of The Garment, Geoff’s sound-responsive, remote-controlled wearable constructed from over 6,000 hand-assembled components including 3,174 LEDs, 2,639 electronic parts, 95 custom PCBs, and 47 batteries.
By allowing Audrey to embody both visual and auditory spectrums as she performs, the work provides a multi-modal canvas: fully conveying all dimensions of Stephanie’s neurodivergent expression and innately creating a deep and beautiful concert experience for Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences.
Premiering on September 12th, 2026 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the new Musical Bodies exhibit
About us
Geoff Robertson is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City with a focus in experimental photography, sculpture, industrial design, and interactive installations. With a creative output that is driven both by a self-taught background in the arts and a formal education in human factors and applied cognitive psychology, his work welcomes interaction and challenges the viewer’s notions of technical possibility. Robertson’s work has been exhibited in multiple group and solo shows across the US East Coast, as well as a virtual performing arts venue of his own development in the Metaverse. His current practice explores themes of material waste, networks and connections, and the natural world. By incorporating custom design and self-engineered props and apparatuses, he creates surreal, luminous, and often whimsical works that have been described as “intriguing and illusionary”.
Audrey Wright is a multifaceted artist across solo, chamber music, and orchestral realms. She joined the New York Philharmonic in 2022, having served as associate concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She also serves as concertmaster of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. Wright has performed across the globe in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, London’s Royal Albert Hall, Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, and the Vatican, and has been a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Cape Symphony Orchestra. With a passion for innovative programming and juxtaposing a wide range of musical styles, her repertoire spans the early 17th century to the modern day, and her performing experience includes the full spectrum of these musical styles, from period performance practice to the premiering of new and personally commissioned works. Her debut album, Things In Pairs, with pianist Yundu Wang, was released on Navona Records in 2022.
Michigan-born, Manhattan-based American composer Stephanie Ann Boyd writes music about celebrating women’s memoirs, architecture, and the natural world for symphonic and chamber ensembles. Her work has been performed in nearly all 50 states and has been commissioned by musicians and organizations in 37 countries. Boyd’s five ballets include works choreographed by New York City Ballet principal dancers Lauren Lovette and Ashley Bouder and include a ballet commissioned for the grand opening of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport.
Current commissions include the new orchestra consortium project: Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals, a concerto, Nautilus, for principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic Anthony McGill, a new reed quintet for Akropolis, and the second book of Flower Catalog Piano Preludes.
Recent commissions include a work inspired by Betty Friedan entitled Everywoman, with former Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and 2022 Indianapolis Competition winner Sirena Huang as soloists and commissioned by the Peoria Symphony Orchestra; Alleluia Olora commissioned by Astral Artists for cellist Tommy Mesa, Julia Louisa Esther: a Suffragette Symphony commissioned by the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra with Christopher Dragon, the premiere of which was the subject of a documentary on Wyoming PBS; Aurora, commissioned by Daniel Kurganov and Constantine Finehouse, and others.