Mary Edwards is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and sound architect whose interdisciplinary practice is at the intersection of musical phrasing and time-based media. Alpert Award-winning playwright Daniel Alexander Jones remarked, “Not only has Mary built a resonant dialogue among disciplines, she has amassed a body of work bound together by common themes, of the nature and philosophy of space, of the place of home and the power of nostalgia and, of the effects of all of these things on both the fixed and fluid aspects of identity and experience.”

She extends beyond lyrical territory of A Smile in the Mind and Console—evocative of epic 1960s cinematic soundtracks combined with the gorgeous intimacy of the 1970s singer-songwriter era—scoring instrumentals, and architectural and environmental soundscapes.

Sound artist Laiwan Chung notes that, “…Mary Edwards is sensitive to aesthetic spaces. There is a sense of a grand nostalgia, a wonderment of Modernist sensibility and individualism within her compositional subjects...Mary results in finding and creating spaces between that are intimate, romantic and idyllic."

Current projects include Airports, Woodlands, and Wombs: A Sound Trilogy that draws on the relationship we have with temporality, where the anticipation of travel or movement often overshadows the destination. Each compositional subject shares the conflict of desire and uncertainty that seems to simultaneously haunt and evoke longing in these types of spaces; and International Incidental, an homage to Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Terminal 5 at JFK, is a recording described by writer Katt Lissard as "an intriguing and important project which hopes to subversively acknowledge the role of humans in the way architecture functions (or doesn’t) in our culture. Mary Edwards hopes to take space back for all of us, not through the seizure of property or the redefinition of place, but though the use of melody and phrasing and multi-aural overlay." Composer Laura Koplewitz described this same project in its embryonic stages as “quite resonant.” In 2007, "Idlewild (Main Theme)" was chosen for consideration by the Meet the Composer/Brooklyn Philharmonic Mentorship Program.

In addition to studio sessions and live performances, Mary Edwards, who holds an MFA in composition and architecture, exhibits sound installations in selected galleries and spaces where she has been invited on the artist and curator panels to discuss her work and process. As a visiting artist and guest lecturer she designs and presents educational experiences on the relevance of sound and music in film and environment. She served as a 2008 NYFA Panelist in Music Composition, and is a member of The Recording Academy; American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP); American Composers Forum; Evolutionary Girls Club, and The Architectural League.