Composer’s Note

One in Four, One in Eight takes its title from the statistic that one in four known pregnancies ends in loss in the US, and one in eight people needs medical intervention to get to the journey of pregnancy. This project is a concert performance that features new music which engages the experiences of infertility and pregnancy loss, building a sonic space to explore the deeply personal, physical, and bodied, which is often externally invisible and socially stigmatized in general conversation.

One in Four, One in Eight is a 60-minute concert event which features new music written through the lenses of infertility and pregnancy loss, hybridizing a classical music concert designed to articulate emotional and physical contours of these lived experiences, alongside medically objective content provided by healthcare professionals and scientific research. The composition and concert engage a duality of the deeply subjective experience alongside medically objective content which are forced to co-exist in these arenas.

The piece will premiere in May 2025 at the Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society.

This project is supported by a grant from the MAP Fund.

This project is supported by the (In)Hospitable Bodies Project at the Center for Arts and Society, Carnegie Mellon University.