In this first episode we talk to Melanie Wilson. Melanie is is a U.K. based multi-disciplinary performance maker. Her acclaimed work is founded on the contemporary interplay between sound art, experimental forms of composition, language and live performance. Melanie collaborates with artists and companies across theatre, film, opera and installation, creating highly crafted sound works at varying scale from main house auditoria to intimate podcasts. She is a long term collaborator with director Katie Mitchell.

Melanie is currently developing a choral work that uses AI to explore the human relationship with non-human species, as part of Sound and Music's New Voices composer programme.

Melanie's recent collaborations include little scratch, dir. Katie Mitchell (Hampstead Theatre: score), Unsere Zeit, dir. Simon Stone (Residenztheatre, Munich: score), Extinct, dir. Kirsty Housley (Theatre Royal Stratford East: soundtrack) Current Rising, dir. Netia Jones (ROH: libretto); Where I Go (When I Can't Be Where I Am), dir. Rachel Bagshaw (BBC Culture in Quarantine: score) and Orlando dir. Katie Mitchell (Schaubühne, Berlin: soundtrack). Melanie’s own recent work includes Women of Record (A Woman’s Place Exhibition, Knole House), Opera for the Unknown Woman (Wales Millennium Centre/UK tour) and Landscape II (Dublin Festival/UK tour).

Melanie is also the Chairperson of the Association of Sound Desingers