Instagram: @mentaichil
Photo Description: Mel Chilianis is a white, Anglo-Greek queer person. In the photo, Mel is smiling, showing a little teeth, they are wearing a light brown turtleneck jumper. Behind Mel it is dusk and she is visiting a National Park on south eastern lands belonging to the Boon Wurrung and Gunai Kurnai First Nations. Mel is in the foreground of the photo, while the blurred background show hills reflected in a tidal river with pink clouds above and below.
Hello! I am a musician, sound artist and composer with an interest in graphic notation, asemic writing 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. As I walk my neighbourhood I am mindful of past and continuing colonial traumas.
