Improvisation Media

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Most of my music is notated, and I also usually have sheet music on my merchandise table. But I also give free improvisation performances, usually alongside compositions but also in improvised solo and group sets.

Brooklyn: instant composition with Mara Mayer, Valerie Kuehne:

(violin and multiple instruments)

http://music.joelmellin.com/track/dapple-grey

Pittsburgh: improvisation with improv trio Pariah Dog:

Rotterdam: solo acoustic improvisation at Wolfart Gallery

West Virginia: improvisation at voice of the valley noise rally

(solo electric violin with foot percussion)

Dallas, Texas: improvised accompaniment to poem by Christopher Dawood George:

(violin)

Pittsburgh: improvisation with Marc Edwards:

(violin)

Lowell, MA: free improvisation at X-Fest

(violin, trumpet, circuit-bent electronics, performance art)