Live music
Mélodie Melak’s electronic music project consists of self-made synthesisers that are hooked up to an array of plants. The plants shape the sound of each oscillator. Because of physiological reactions, the plants modulate the frequency they produce, creating an alive and ever morphing sound. On stage, Melak composes with the sounds produced and modulated live by the plants. Her music evolves from minimalism to noise drone.
Solo
Duos with Brian Kiel
Condensed and falling in drops
At the intersection of a sound installation and a performance, the duo “condensed and falling in drops” creates a resonating territory of frequencies. Standing waves, physical boundaries of sound that can be felt as they pass through you, sonically materialise the space between walls, physically connecting all present. Amidst this atmosphere, plants attached through an array of oscillators populate, develop and emphasise the delicate stability of the territory.
Brian Kiel: standing waves
Mélodie Melak: self-made plants synthesisers
PFLANG
PFLANG thrives at the convergence of technology, sound and nature. They specialise in self-built synthesisers that draw inspiration from plants, creating an ambiguous relationship between technology and the natural world.
PFLANG is a collaborative dance where synth, plants, and the artists guide each other through sonic territories. Plants and machines are not just passive objects but active participants in the creative process, as Mélodie and Brian respond in real time to the unexpected output of this unstable set-up.
Each of their performances is a unique journey, where the audience can witness the organic interplay of plant feedback and synthesised sounds.
Melodie Melak: Plant matrix mixer
Brian Kiel: Noise Toaster
[All instruments built by Brian Kiel, Plant Matrix Mixer designed by Melodie Melak]
Past project
Contemporary dance with live music
The main focus of this project is the human body in its relation to nature.
Questioning the effectiveness of the human’s tendency to remodel its surrounding to its convenience, Osmosis embraces the idea that humans are destined to harm themselves by destroying their vital environment. On music made live with sounds crafted by and from plants in realtime, the dancers reconnect with instinctual behaviors by drawing on a vocabulary of visually abstract movements inspired by various processes inherent to the plant life.
Dancers: Myriel Welling, Asuka Riedl, Christoph Viol, Filimatou Lim, Francisco Bejarano, Yotam Peled and Manuel Molino
Music: Mélodie Melak - Plant synths, shruti box
Arrangement and mixing: Emra Grid
