Mel, a white person with short dark brown hair wears a brown jumper and faces the camera smiling. They are to the right of the image. There are hills reflecting in a tidal pool at dusk in the background. This is blurred. — Mel photographed on Gunai/Kurnai and the Boonwurrung country/ Wilson’s Prom, Victoria, Australia.

Mel Chilianis

I am an improvising musician, sound artist and composer with an interest in graphic notation and sketching. Over the years I’ve been a performer (flutes), a music teacher and an academic. Something that has continued from when I was young — whether experimenting with tape recorders, writing atonal compositions or producing electroacoustic music — is a curiousity and engagement with sound. And its continuity and disruptions with music.

Some of the things I like: are lizards, silent cranes, miffy, pastitsio, laksa, cats, silver eyes and desert goats.

I live and work on unceded Wurundjeri and Woiwurrung lands of the Kulin Nation. All settler-colonialism is violent, then and now.