23 November 2008

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Website: www.melaniechilianis.net.au

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Digital, Installation, Performance

I am...: an improvising musician and composer working with the breath, flutes and electro-acoustic sound extension and mixes in performance and installation. I am also interested in participatory processes that enable people to create against the backdrop of the sonic environment, currently involved in curating a large, outdoor, multichannel sound system for young artists' sound and music. I am thinking about the relationship between my experiences with young people and my own art practice and to what degree it's reciprocal.

About my artwork: Recent performances have explored the flute's expressive dimensions through extended technique and digital processing. My compositions have evoked myth (Kappa) and played with sonic images of the sea (Pirate Door). In installation I am exploring a series of connections between rhythms/cycles of the city, the social self, sound as event and sound as music. I am interested in making visible and audible the everyday rhythms of an environment by transforming these small sounds and daily rhythms into performance.

The centre of the artworld is: nowhere and everywhere

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I want to live in a castle..

"I want to live in a castle.." is constructed from materials recorded in a chaotic music classroom where I was music teacher for a time. In the classroom at this challenging school, playing percussion instruments became a way for many children to sum… Continue

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At 4:55pm on 28th October 2008, alison williams said…: Yes girl me too ! I am coming to Melbourne next year it would be great to coincide some screenings with my trip! Not at pc now on mobile so will get to yer comments etc later! Find me a laid back B & B right!!! I want a Sydney venue also I will hunt one shout if you know....

At 6:33am on 28th October 2008, alison williams said…: good morning Mel - i am trying to secure Guildfordlane gallery melbourne - near you?? especially to reflect your involvement in our HEP project :))) they are interested in information i send to them later looks like a nice space indeed.

if you have any other supporting venues in Aus let the Ali know ok - and i shall make contact with the earthlings!

have gr8 day
me

At 8:52am on 15th September 2008, Leith O'Malley said…: No, I only paint Mel.. film is a fantastic medium but I'm chained to the brush in this life..

Take care :)
Leith

At 3:00pm on 9th September 2008, Simone Stoll said…: Hello Mel, your sounds are so intriguingly nice, when I seem to function so visually, but i love sounds and inspiring music
best
simone

At 8:50am on 20th August 2008, alison williams said…: hello Mel :) you welcome! i look fwd to your works - alison

At 2:03pm on 28th July 2008, Rosalind Hall said…: Hey Mel I've finally put some of my music up! Let me know what gigs you've got coming up:)

At 6:02pm on 23rd July 2008, Antti Pussinen said…: hi.
Want to participate in a collective sound installation presented in Kiasma (contemporary art museum of Finland), Helsinki and Conflux festival New York? Work is about urban silences and allows the viewer (or listener) to mix and loop different urban silences together. do you have a video camera or other recorder for sound? please msg me ASAP if intrested or if you want more info

-Antti Pussinen

At 6:22am on 18th July 2008, Anna Jaros said…: hello, thanks for your comment, I like art in the city...it was great experience

cheers
Anna

At 8:25pm on 27th June 2008, Christian Leduc said…: thank you for your comment. enjoy life and art!

At 11:54am on 24th June 2008, Dan Green said…: I saw a cellist the other night, playing through a tape lop machine and an oscillator. Fascinating how she began to alter the sounds it made, used some vocals as well. It all got quite dark, thought she might be trying to summon something at one point! Can't remember her name though, although she had been collaborating with Tony Conrad (which is probably why I went!). Went to a talk a few months ago looking at composing and how the sounds of the city can be considered music in their own right, or used as instruments. The woman talked about Elsa Marie Pade, using different graphic ways of using scores etc to form the basis for the sound. The lady has a blog somewhere, www.autograf.com/hodkinson I think - might be useful!

I guess that the way the music is composed is important, look at the scratch orchestra and how they used the idea of improvised collaborative working, but with a structure underneath it all. Shame it all imploded really!

As for those paintings, I've never really thought about them that much, they began as drawings which I've been doing for as long as I can remember, way before I knew anything about 'art'. I see why you say about the rhythm in them, thats a really interesting insight, Rhythm is something I've always been obsessed with - can't get away from always having a rhythm in there somewhere whatever it is I do!

As far as the breath stuff goes, do you know of Mikhail Karikis? He does alot with vocal noises, coughs etc. Really good.