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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.

Just in case you miss the statement “Click on the image for an enlarged view” … an enlarged view of Mel’s CD cover artwork 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.

 

Review

 Mel  

Catalogue
Details 1 & 2 Details 3 & 4 Television and The Bomb Washing Fluid Art  
"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
       


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Floating Stones

Playing with Henry - 2

 

Playing with Henry - 2 :

Some more of the occasional ongoing series of works based on the collection 'Fantazias and In Nomines' by Henry Purcell.

1-3.C6H12O6 (12 Oct. 2004 - Pyhra) This started life as 'In Nomine #2 - in seven parts' for strings, Z.747. It's probably one of the 'nicest' pieces I've ever composed (or in this case should that be arranged), to my ears it sounds like a kind of sonic syrup, hence the name (sugar).

4-7.Keeping secrets (Rorschach Quartet) (16 July 2008 - Pyhra) This uses Purcell's 'Fantazia #7, in four parts, Z.738' for its material and was intended as a sister piece to Primarily Henry (2006), but changed direction. The prime number based micro-tonality was dropped but primes are still used to govern the structure along with a visual aspect, one of the Rorschach test pictures (but slightly smeared across the page).

8-10. Cold Gods (the monk thing) (17 Mar. 2005 - Pyhra)
It was given the subtitle by my step-son and was actually started in 1992 from Purcell's 'In Nomine #1 - in six parts' for strings, Z.746. Along the way various ideas from it became Thirteen Gods and Strungout Boeing (both 1997) and Warm Gods (2001) and in 2005 I returned to the original score and, borrowing the god's tune from Warm Gods as an introduction, came up with this fairly close to the original idea. It is realized for unreal orchestra.


Playing with Henry - 2
RW-1-03-027

01 C6H12O6 (part 1) 7'50"
02 C6H12O6 (part 2) 8'14"
03 C6H12O6 (part 3) 7'26"


04 Keeping secrets (part 1) 8'40"
05 Keeping secrets (part 2) 8'41"
06 Keeping secrets (part 3) 8'42"
07 Keeping secrets (part 4) 8'44"


08 Cold Gods (part 1) 6'25"
09 Cold Gods (part 2) 6'41"
10 Cold Gods (part 3) 7'14“

Total time 78’43“

 

 

 

 

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