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Melinda Faylor is a Filipina American pianist/composer based in New York City. Ms. Faylor weaves together dense and mercurial sound worlds using field recordings, synthesized sound and piano. As a collaborative artist, she has worked extensively with dance. Her long time interest in John Cage, in particular his aleatoric practices and extended piano techniques, led her to co-create several scores for music and dance with Loren Groenendaal and the Vervet Dance Company of Philadelphia, PA. Current projects include a solo electroacoustic album, Sari Sari Storybooks with Music (a musical setting of Filipino children's books by author Christina Newhard), a duo with violinist Gillian Rivers and her interdisciplinary theater piece MeMeMeMe. MeMeMeMe is a series of generative performances in four parts, building upon experiments with meme and emoji language through parlor games and emoji tarot card divination. She is the recipient of the Ma-Yi Theater grant (2021), NMUSA Creator Fund grant (2023) and the Queens Art Fund grant (2023).