about
Kendall Perry (they/them) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist musician and artist exploring the in-between, liminal spaces and indeterminacy in their work. They hold a MMus from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 2019, and are currently based in Brooklyn, NYC.
Kendall got their start producing their original work at a small festival Gatas Y Vatas in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2011 and 2012. They began creating work which blurred discipline and collaborated with other practitioners. This gave rise to their first production part of their undergraduate thesis “Unravel” (2014), then “Destinata” (2015), which combined acoustic and visual idioms by incorporating the naturalistic vocabulary of their photography.
As a trans non-binary person existing in the in-between, Kendall seeks to create liminal spaces beyond fixed realities through their music. They are influenced by minimalism, experimental rock, and their background in jazz, all sources that culminate in a rich, cinematic, layered sound.
Kendall also has a longstanding collaboration with contemporary dance company Wild Heart Dance as a composer and musician. Their collaboration has produced three productions together, "The Vulnerable Cure" (2016), "The Beloved" (2017) and “The Last Land Before Sky” (2018). Kendall’s work as a composer and sound designer has also been featured on many stages and Independent Productions across the world.