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Mel

Mel’s extensive catalogue of work is available as downloads on all the major download stores [Mel (Dr Ian D Mellish)] as well as ‘hard-copy’ real CDs from the Red Wharf Shop.

To accommodate the requirements of the download stores, particularly iTunes, Mel has edited all the long and continuous tracks into segments of ten minutes (well a second under) or less. The segments seamlessly ‘top and tail’ to the previous and following segments, or parts as we have called them, enabling the long and continuous complete track to be reassembled.

The works listed below illustrate the format that is seen on download stores. Additionally "all incense and dreamcatchers" has now been added to "bandcamp" for a choice of high quality downloads ... other albums to be added over the coming weeks.

Just in case you miss the statement “Click on the image for an enlarged view” … an enlarged view of Mel’s CD cover artwork which have the same quality of excellence, thought, care and intrigue as his music, can be seen by clicking on the CD image thumbnail.

To read Mel's biography click on Artists (Navigation Bar) or here

Mel's catalogue page started life as a single page, Internet Explorer handled all 89 audio excerpts without a problem, but Firefox, Safari and Opera browsers have limits (up to 15). so there are now a total of 6 Pages to accommodate this number of audio files. All of the music works can be accessed in the table below.

 

Reviews

 Mel  

Catalogue
 
"all incense and dream catchers" Chaos and the Wasp Floating Stones Mobile Vermin Of Buffalos & Other Gods
The Pop Album Rothko Olitsky Sjem (Walking Through Bedlam) Sex, Hats & Videotape
Peter & Roland and other noises Wallpaper Music #5 Rise & Fall Dreams from Oblivion The Relativ Violin Night
The MAK project music for flesh & blood - 1 Playing with Henry - 1 The Ambiotic Research Test v3.1 music for flesh & blood - 2
Playing with Henry - 2        


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Details 1 & 2

Details 1 & 2

A collection of short pieces as examples of Mel's work between the years 1989 and 1999.
Some are the original pieces, but most have been created from material remixed from, related to, or used in, sections of the longer pieces they represent.

Details 1 : 1979 - 1983

01 ('79) 6th Hive
02 ('79) Sheltered Life
03 ('79) Bridges
04 ('80) March (Asylum #2)
05 ('80) Random DC I
06 ('80) Dice Procession
07 ('81) Designed Day
08 ('81) Short Landscape
09 ('81) Floorscape III
10 ('82) Several Days Later
11 ('82) Vicky's Collection
12 ('82) Framed Moon
13 ('82) Framed Gala
14 ('82) Late Illusion
15 ('83) If I Dance
16 ('83) Turtle Soup

total duration: 1:18:06

Details 2 : 1983 - 1988

01 ('83) TV Jam
02 ('84) AM 55
03 ('84) Surviving Muzak
04 ('84) "Just Tennis"
05 ('85) Orc voices
06 ('85) Beached
07 ('85) CX5 Cairn
08 ('86) P&R 1133
09 ('86) "These Important Messages"
10 ('86) How, Herman?
11 ('87) Corrupt Princess
12 ('87) Several Years Later
13 ('87) East Weave
14 ('87) Blue Poles (Pollock)
15 ('88) Earthworks
16 ('88) Shelter D
17 ('88) Can'd Brass

total duration: 1:16:35

Details 1 :

02 ('79) Sheltered Life

12 ('82) Framed Moon

 

Details 2 :

03 ('84) Surviving Muzak

13 ('87) East Weave

 

 

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Details 3 & 4

Details 3 & 4

A collection of short pieces as examples of Mel's work between the years 1989 and 1999.
Some are the original pieces, but most have been created from material remixed from,
related to, or used in, sections of the longer pieces they represent.

Details 3 : 1989 - 1994

01 ('89) Passing II
02 ('89) Enoc's slic
03 ('89) Partched Sun
04 ('90) Wall of Syn
05 ('90) Fourth Juno
06 ('91) White Rinse
07 ('91) Icy Smile
08 ('91) Oreq Deep 4
09 ('92) Sludge
10 ('92) Mulysa Fall #90
11 ('92) Herb's Edge
12 ('93) Bangor Brushes
13 ('93) Fall Choir
14 ('93) RDC II (study 1)
15 ('94) Snapshots of Devils
16 ('94) Sunday Drivers
17 ('94) Dwarf Buffalo

total duration: 1:16:17

Details 4 : 1995 - 1999

01 ('95) The Monster Skroweh
02 ('95) Sleepless Tale
03 ('95) A cube is a cube is a cube
04 ('96) Lies All Lies
05 ('96) Arc III (sliced)
06 ('96) MX Rise
07 ('96) Wanted
08 ('97) Small q
09 ('97) Enola knows
10 ('97) Ludium Cycle
11 ('98) Stoned Machine
12 ('98) Creeping Thunder
13 ('98) Living with the wasp
14 ('99) Waiting
15 ('99) Glass Cathedral
16 ('99) Climb
17 ('99) Cross (AxE)

total duration: 1:17:43

Details 3 :
RW-1-03-001/002

01 ('89) Passing II

13 ('93) Fall Choir

 

Details 4 :
RW-1-03-003/004

04 ('96) Lies All Lies

14 ('99) Waiting

 

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Television and the Bomb

Television and The Bomb

 

Television and The Bomb :

Trailer
14 Jan.'88 - Breck's Nook, York. (originally for quad. tape)
An advert for the piece 'Surface Quartet' ('88), it is actually the 'frame' material from that piece before splicing.

Greetings from in front of a TV set

I Vertical Hold (The Coming Of Sound)
20 Feb.'84 - Derwent, York. (originally for quad. tape)
Loosely inspired by the work of painter Bridget Riley. "...the coming of sound" was a comment about the transition from silent movies to the 'talkies'. The piece was made in the days of physically splicing tape - there are dozens of cuts.

II Horizontal Hold (Muzak)
3 Jun.'84 - Derwent, York. (originally for quad. tape)
From the old days of the television test-card - and the test-card muzak, gently smeared across the screen (horizontally).

Partched
4 Dec.'89 - Chingford.
Mixed for a TV company, this uses a jump-loop study created from an excerpt of a Harry Partch work, mixed in with other bits and pieces

Fazed dog/The Letter (CD mix)
31 Jan.'92 - Chingford.
The underlying recordings were in collaboration with Peter Garvey & John Godfrey. We would spend hours in my studio messing about with loops and samples, this was created from a collection of messings about called the 'Ice smile loops' ('91).

Rising Fugitive
2 Jul.'96 - Westcott (original) 24 Jun.'99 - Pyhra. (for harp, televisions and live electronics.)
A CD version of the piece Rising '--', the second name being chosen from what was on the TV at the time. This is a realisation for unreal harp* although the live version is for four real Irish harps.

Hidden States
14 Mar.'86 - Derwent, York. (originally for quad. tape)
Atomic war "as seen on TV". ('Land of Hope & Glory' and 'God Bless America' are hidden in the intro.)

Television and the Bomb
RW-1-03-005

1. Trailer 00:54

2. Vertical Hold 07:09

3. Horizontal Hold (i) 05:06
4. Horizontal Hold (ii) 05:05

5. Partched (PTV Mix) 05:35

6. Fazed Dog/The Letter (i) 05:06
7. Fazed Dog/The Letter (ii) 05:05

8. Rising Fugitive (i) 05:06
9. Rising Fugitive (ii) 05:05

10.Hidden States (i) 05:06
11.Hidden States (ii) 05:05

all compositions for 'Tape' by Mel
Total time 73:40

 

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Washing Fluid Art

Washing Fluid Art

 

Washing Fluid Art :

Purcill Washes Whiter
15 Mar.'91 (original version) 2 May '99 - Pyhra.
A reworking of 'Fantasias for Viols' by Henry Purcell. This stemmed from a happy accident in York involving a record deck, a tape deck and a conductor friend. For the CD version I mixed in a new end.

Flying Deep (Pollock Mix 1)
10 Feb.'89 - Chingford.
Inspired by the artist Jackson Pollock's work and loosely based on the painting "The Deep" (1953). A live 'flying' mix of lots of tape machines 'pouring' sound, plus a little cleaning up.

Tinguely
10 July '84 - Derwent, York. (originally for quad. tape)
Based on the sculpture "Méta-Harmonie II" (1979) by Jean Tinguely. This is a very large and noisy kinetic sculpture which includes connected wheels, various beaters and an upright piano. For this piece I recorded the sculpture for half an hour or so and the sounds are in there somewhere.

  

Washing Fluid Art
RW-1-03-006

1. Purcill Washes Whiter (i) 08:01
2. Purcill Washes Whiter (ii) 08:25

3. Flying Deep (Pollock) (i) 08:56
4. Flying Deep (Pollock) (ii) 08:36
5. Flying Deep (Pollock) (iii) 08:08
6. Flying Deep (Pollock) (iv) 08:00
7. Flying Deep (Pollock) (v) 08:19

8. Tinguely (i) 07:08
9. Tinguely (ii) 07:10

all compositions for 'Tape' by Mel
Total time 72:48

 

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"all incense and dream catchers" Chaos and the Wasp Floating Stones Mobile Vermin Of Buffalos & Other Gods
The Pop Album Rothko Olitsky Sjem (Walking Through Bedlam) Sex, Hats & Videotape
Peter & Roland and other noises Wallpaper Music #5 Rise & Fall Dreams from Oblivion The Relativ Violin Night
The MAK project music for flesh & blood - 1 Playing with Henry - 1 The Ambiotic Research Test v3.1 music for flesh & blood - 2
Playing with Henry - 2        

 

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