Melanie Chilianis
Melanie Chilianis is an Australian flautist and composer whose electroacoustic and acoustic work moves between performance, installation and recorded sound.
Her acoustic compositions have been performed and broadcast live on ABC-FM in Australia and on Radio 3, Italy’s national radio, as well as on local stations. Her work has been heard in Italy and the USA, is archived in the British Library, and plays permanently in a commissioned audiovisual alcove at the Gold Coast Exhibition Centre. Her solo sound installation Days of Our Lives was represented in Contemporary Composition: From Avant-Garde to Experimental, curated by Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe for Now Hear This, part of Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria.
As an early member of Thomas Reiner’s re-sound she helped interpret and present new musical ideas, and took part in a dialogue with local and international composers. She has also performed flute works by contemporary composers at regional festivals such as Federation Music: Contemporary Music of Asia and the Pacific.
She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in film and communication studies, in which she explored the concept of the epileptic body through electronic music. Her electronic and electroacoustic music explores the tension between interruption and a desire for continuity. She collaborates with Iranian composer and santour player Atefeh Einali.
Performing as re-sound
re-sound has established itself as one of Australia's most progressive contemporary music ensembles. Its thought-provoking, challenging and dynamic performances explore the sounds of our time across a wide range of genres, styles, and performance contexts.
Quiet on the Bridge
Like the group's earlier releases, this disc ranges across electronic and electro-acoustic music, contemporary chamber writing, interactive computer pieces, open indeterminate works and improvisation.
Composer
Ephemeral Densities
ephemeral densities is re-sound's third CD, devoted to new Australian work by members Steve Adam, Melanie Chilianis, Paul Moulatlet and Thomas Reiner. It brings together contemporary chamber writing, computer music and popular electronic idioms.
Composer
Mixing Engineer
In C
Melbourne ensemble re-sound gives Terry Riley's minimalist landmark In C its first electroacoustic reading, folding chamber forces into beats, sequences and electric bass and guitar.
Compositions by Melanie Chilianis also appear on
KAPPA
Italian chamber group Trio Altrove 1.3 joins six Australian composers of contemporary classical music – Steve Adam, Melanie Chilianis, Brendan Colbert, Philip Czaplowski, Paul Moulatlet and Thomas Reiner – in a programme of works written or arranged for the ensemble.
Melanie Chilianis also appears on
Hard Chamber
A retrospective of chamber works by Melbourne contemporary composer Thomas Reiner, written for varied small forces. Soloists from Monash University and ensemble re-sound present music that asks for close, unconditioned listening.