JOEL MELLIN
COMPOSER | MUSIC
Joel Mellin is a Queens-based multidisciplinary artist whose exploratory career has taken him from NASA space science engineering to studying with the musicians in the remote villages of Bali, Indonesia. He is a composer, musician, sound artist, installation artist, visual artist, and instrument builder. Striving to realize the unheard and unseen, Mellin often uses computers in his work for their robust calculation capabilities, their efficiency handling complex, tedious tasks, and their objective, apathetic relationship with aesthetics and memory. He has developed immersive 3D sound environments to realize audio tornados, evolved language with genetic algorithms, scored thunderstorms, and developed innovative tools for deconstructing and reconstructing digital audio. Since 2008, he has studied Balinese music with Gamelan Dharma Swara in NYC, and the group now regularly performs his composition, Synesthesia.