John J Melillo

Interests

Teaching

Modern and Contemporary American Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literature; Music and Literature; Literature and Sound; Poetic Rhythm and Meter.

Research

20th and 21st century American Literature; Trans-Atlantic Modernism; Poetry and Poetics; Sound Studies; Music and Literature; Media Studies; Performance Studies; Popular Culture; Aesthetics; War Culture and Literature; Philosophy; Creative Writing.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Melillo, J. J. (2020). The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  Reinterpreting the history of 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a history of noise through poetry and poetic performance. It argues that poetry--conceived as a sound art practiced by writers, lyricists, performers, producers, and other sound-writers--continuously figures and refigures noise in relation to communication, meaning, and voice. In many cases, this figuration forms in the negative, as listeners cast out or ignore noise in the name of communication or poetic voice. In other cases, however, poets actively write and perform the sound of noise, and attempt to reimagine the ways of listening that structure what counts as significant or insignificant sound. Rather than suggesting that poets simply overturn the hierarchical binary between signal and noise, Melillo listens for the ways in which they implicitly and explicitly theorize listening, mediation, and responsibility through their figurations of noise.

Chapters

• Melillo, J. J. (2014). Empathic Noise. In Rethinking Empathy through Literature. New York: Routledge.
• Melillo, J. J. (2015). Sappho and the "Papyrological Event". In Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Melillo, J. J. (2009). Secret Locations on the Lower East Side: Downtown Poetics 1960-1980. In Lost New York: Catalog of the Fales Library Exhibit Lost New York. New York: Fales Library.

Journals/Publications

• Melillo, J. J. (2019). "The Beautiful People" Today. March Vladness.
• Melillo, J. J. (2019). The Dream Life of Voice: A Rerecording of Bernadette Mayer Reading from The Ethics of Sleep. Sounding Out!: A Web Journal for Sound Studies, 8. doi:https://soundstudiesblog.com/2019/02/25/on-the-dream-life-of-voice-a-rerecording-of-bernadette-mayer-reading-from-the-ethics-of-sleep/
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  An experimental audio essay with notes. Part of the "Voices Carry" series.
• Melillo, J. J. (2019). The Politics of Noise in Henri Chopin's Audiopoems. Revue TIES: Text, Image, and Sound, 15.
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  In this essay, I conduct two close listenings of the French sound poet, concrete poet, theorist and editor, Henri Chopin, in order to investigate what Charles Bernstein has called the “threshold at which noise becomes phonically / significant” (“Artifice of Absorption”). Henri Chopin’s audiopoems simultaneously reiterate and defamiliarize oral communication through processes of recording, repeating, and distorting mouth sound. I argue that by continuously de- and re-constructing “phonic significance” through techniques of the body and technologies of recording and amplification, Chopin’s tape-works figure noise as metamorphosis rather than poetic voice as metaphor. In doing so, they situate the body within the invisible, nearly unlistenable—and yet ever-present—sonic by-product created by materials, markets, powers, and habits. In this essay, I listen to the rhythmic and temporal manipulations of Chopin’s sound recordings in order to understand how they mark what Lisa Robertson has called the “historicity of non-meaning” and what Theodor Adorno has theorized as the “inner historicity” of musical works. Before and beyond any figuration, Chopin’s production of noise (as well as its implicit theorization) emphasizes human frailty in the midst of the vast sweep of history’s violence.
• Melillo, J. J. (2019). The Use of John Smith’s "The Sea-Marke" in Charles Olson’s "Letter 15". ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 32(1), 5. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2018.1469394
• Melillo, J. (2018). The poetics of sonic thinking. Sound Studies, 4(2), 224-226. doi:10.1080/20551940.2019.1591805
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  In this collection, editor Bernd Herzogenrath has brought together 20 new essays by philosophers, theorists, composers and artists with the goal of defining and demonstrating “sonic thinking”. The ...
• Melillo, J. (2018). The use of John Smith’s “The Sea Marke” in Charles Olson’s “Letter 15”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 32(1), 51-54. doi:10.1080/0895769x.2018.1469394
• Melillo, J. J. (2018). Marking and Erasure: On Captain John Smith’s "The Sea Marke". The Explicator, 7.
• Melillo, J. J. (2018). Notes on the phrase “welcome to the jungle” in the song “Welcome to the Jungle” by the band Guns N’ Roses. March Shredness.
• Melillo, J. J. (2017). An Interview with Tracie Morris. Kore Press Online.
• Melillo, J. J. (2017). On "Rump Shaker" by Wreckx N Effect. March Fadness.
• Melillo, J. J. (2017). Strawberry Lemonade for Everybody: A Review of Henry Codax's Strawberry Lemonade at Everybody Gallery. Meow Magazine.
• Järviö, P., Bell, G., Kapadocha, C., Melillo, J., & Nickell, C. (2016). Reviews. Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, 1(1), 95-106. doi:10.1386/jivs.1.1.95_5
• Melillo, J. J. (2016). Olson / Tape / Noise. jacket2: Clipping Series.
• Melillo, J. J. (2016). Two Sides for Wallace Stevens's "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven". Stylus: The Woodberry Poetry Room Blog.
• Skibsrud, J. E., & Melillo, J. J. (2016). "Two Sides for Wallace Stevens". Harvard University's Woodberry poetry room blog, 5.
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  As described by Drs. Marit J. MacArthur and Lee M. Miller in the article "Vocal Deformance and Performative Speech, or In Different Voices!" published on the Sound Studies Blog "Sounding Out!"(https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/10/24/in-different-voices-vocal-deformance-and-performative-speech/): "in John Melillo and Johanna Skibsrud’s “Two Sides for Wallace Stevens,” on Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room site, also offers a beguiling example of audio deformance."
• Melillo, J. J. (2015). On Maps and Waves. The Volta / Evening Will Come.
• Melillo, J. J. (2015). Uncertain Revelations: Noise from the Old Regular Baptists to Susan Howe, Clark Coolidge and Morton Feldman.. Act: Zeitschrift für Musik & Performance.
• Melillo, J. J., & Skibsrud, J. E. (2015). Lake Jean: A Short Tour of the End of the World. Lightning Journal.
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  Creative photo essay on the living history of Lake Jean, Nevada -- site of Belgian sculptor, Jean Tinguely's, "Study for the End of the World"
• Melillo, J. J., & Skibsrud, J. E. (2015). The Art of Losing. The Volta.
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  This is a co-edited volume of the online poetry / poetics journal, The Volta. Contributions included work by poets, writers, musicians and essayists. Authors include: Sam Ace, Gelsey Bell, Caroline Bergvall, Bonnie Jones, Tenney Nathanson, Lytle Shaw, Brandon Shimoda, and more.
• Melillo, J. J. (2014). Trailer Monasticism. Brick: A Literary Journal.
• Melillo, J. J. (2013). Waves: A Speculative Essay on Mimesis and Philology. Pelt: A Magazine for the Organism for Poetic Research.
• Melillo, J. J. (2013). “‘Don’t Duplicate My Rhythm:’ DNA and Valery’s Transverse Relations. Stop Making Sense: The Unintelligible in Popular Music (online series for website of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music).
• Melillo, J. J. (2010). From Baghdad to New York: The Lexicon of Iraqi Poet Sinan Antoon.”. Poesia: Mensile internazionale di cultura poetica.
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  trans. Elena Bellina

Presentations

• Melillo, J. J. (2021, October). Grounds of Reciprocity and the Forms of Vocality. 12th Conference of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present / ASAP12. Online: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
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  I presented this conference paper in a panel entitled "Experimental Forms in New Media." In it, I discussed a theoretical groundwork (based on Genette's idea of a "paratext") for a new project on the history of sound poetry and experimental vocality after 1950.
• Melillo, J. J., & Melillo, J. J. (2021, September). "T.S. Eliot and Popular Song". 42nd Annual Meeting of the International T.S. Eliot Society - Seminar on Eliot's Influence. Online: International T.S. Eliot Society.
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  A paper presented to a seminar discussing T.S. Eliot's influence organized by Dr. Anthony Cuda.
• Melillo, J. J. (2019, January). Participant in Poets and Critics Symposium on Dawn Lundy Martin. Poets and Critics Symposium on Dawn Lundy Martin. University of Paris VII.
• Melillo, J. J. (2018, February). Tracing Noise: Rock My Religion and Sonic Address in Punk. Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method. University of California, Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles.
• Melillo, J. J. (2018, March). Listening Against Listening to Poetry. American Comparative Literature Association: A Panel on Poetry and Pedagogy. Los Angeles, California: American Comparative Literature Association.
• Melillo, J. J. (2017, March). On Noise and Poetry: Charles Olson and Susan Howe. Arizona Quarterly Symposium. University of Arizona: Arizona Quarterly.
• Melillo, J. J. (2016, April). Sonic Emblems: Reference and Reinscription in Field Recordings and Frolic Architecture. Buffalo Poetics: (the Next) 25 Years.
• Melillo, J. J. (2016, April). Tracing Waves. Periods and Waves: A Conference on Sound and History. SUNY Stonybrook, Stonybrook, NY.
• Melillo, J. J. (2016, January). Periodicities. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association / Reconceptualizing the Lyric Special Session.
• Melillo, J. J. (2016, January). Reconceptualizing the Lyric, Special Session. Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association. Austin, TX: Modern Language Association.
• Melillo, J. J. (2016, October). Noise, Historicity, and Henri Chopin’s Sound Poetry.. Poetics/Politics: Writing, Ethics, and Aesthetics.. Université Paris-Est Créteil, Paris, France.
• Melillo, J. J. (2015, March). Translating Waves. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association / Art and Accident Panel. Seattle, WA: American Comparative Literature Association.
• Melillo, J. J. (2015, November). Olson, Tape, Noise. Annual Meeting of the Modernist Studies Association / Sound and Revolution Panel. Boston, MA: Modernist Studies Association.
• Melillo, J. J. (2015, September). Public History and Sonic Address: Howe, Philip, Bergvall, Gyra. Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present / Audible Publics Panel. Charleston, SC: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
• Melillo, J. J. (2014, April). Affect and Belonging: Four Ways of Listening to Noise. Sound and Affect: Voice, Music, World. State University of New York, Stonybrook, NY: SUNY Stonybrook Departments of Music and Philosophy.
• Melillo, J. J. (2014, March). Punk and the Circulation of Noise. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association / Punk and the City Panel. New York, NY: American Comparative Literature Association.
• Melillo, J. J. (2013, September). T.S. Eliot and Sound Art. The Annual Meeting of the T.S. Eliot Society. Washington University, St. Louis, MO: The T.S. Eliot Society.
• Melillo, J. J. (2012, April). Listening to Poetry Listening. Theorizing Sound Writing / Writing Sound Theory: A Conference. New York University, New York, NY: New York University.
• Melillo, J. J. (2012, January). Empathic Noise. Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association / Rethinking Empathy: Feeling with Others in Contemporary Literature. Seattle, WA: Modern Language Association.
• Melillo, J. J. (2012, January). Nirvana and the Noise of Mediation. Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association / The Seattle Sound, Popular Culture Group. Seattle, WA: Modern Language Association.
• Melillo, J. J. (2012, March). Revenant Frequencies: Destructive Sound from The Waste Land to NYC Ghosts and Flowers. EMP Pop Conference / Sonic Contestation. New York, NY: International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
• Melillo, J. J. (2012, November). Phatic Emphatic: Listening to New York City in Downtown Poetry and Punk. The Conference of the American Musicological Society, The City as Medium Panel. New Orleans, LA: American Musicological Society.
• Melillo, J. J. (2012, October). Spectacle, Voice, Noise: Alvin Lucier’s "I Am Sitting in a Room,". Fourteenth Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference, Recoiling from Spectacle Peer Seminar. Las Vegas, NV: Modernist Studies Association.
• Melillo, J. J. (2012, September). 'jug jug to dirty ears:’ Language as Historical Noise in "The Waste Land". The Annual Meeting of the T.S. Eliot Society, Special Peer Seminar on Sound,. Washington University, St. Louis, MO: T.S. Eliot Society.
• Melillo, J. J. (2012, September). Mediation in The Waste Land. The Annual Meeting of the T.S. Eliot Society. Washington University, St. Louis, MO: T.S. Eliot Society.
• Melillo, J. J. (2013, June). Temporalities of the Mouth. Performance Studies International / Voice and Temporality. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA: Performance Studies International.
• Melillo, J. J. (2011, April). Noise Poetry, Noise Music: 60s Cool into 70s Punk. Post45 @ the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Post45 Society.
• Melillo, J. J. (2011, October). Voice in Dadaist Sound Poetry. Thirteenth Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference / Syntax of Voice Panel. Buffalo, NY: Modernist Studies Association.
• Melillo, J. J., & Melillo, J. J. (2011, November). Sound Writing and Recording: Phonography into Ethnography. 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association / Sound Studies, Sound Traces: Critical Engagements with Sound Inquiries, Modes, and Methods. Montreal, CA: American Anthropological Association.

Reviews

• Melillo, J. J. (2016. A Report on Caroline Bergvall's Drift and M. Nourbese Philip's Zong. The Volta.
• Melillo, J. J. (2021. Review of Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature, by Angela Leighton(p. 4). American Literary History Online Review Series XXVI.
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  A review of Dr. Angela Leighton's recent book on sound in literature, particularly in poetry.
• Melillo, J. J. (2019. The Poetics of Sonic Thinking: A Review of Sonic Thinking, edited by Berndt Herzogenrath(p. 6).
• Melillo, J. J. (2016. Review Essay: The Sonic Color Line (NYU Press, 2016).
• Melillo, J. J. (2015. Review: Brandon LaBelle’s "Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary". The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, Vol 1, No. 1.
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  The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, Vol 1, No. 1
• Melillo, J. J. (2016. Review Essay: The Sonic Color Line (NYU Press, 2016)(p. 4). American Literary History Online.
• Melillo, J. J. (2015. Review Essay: On “Reverb: Notes,” the endnotes to Hillel Schwartz’s "Making Noise: From the Big Bang to Babel and Beyond" (Zone Books, 2011). Reviews in Cultural Theory.

Creative Productions

• Melillo, J. J. (2023. "Wave the Ocean" Tape. 2182 Recording Company. Tucson and Everywhere Else: 2182 Recording Company.
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  A pre-order tape including an excerpt from The Mouth Is a Resonant Field as well as new work: a field recording, a hymn using the words of poet Marianne Moore and philosophers Franco Berardi and Irmgeld Emmelheinz (to the tune of "Coleshill")
• Melillo, J. J. (2023. The Mouth Is a Resonant Field - LP. 2182 Recording Company. Tucson and Everywhere Else: 2182 Recording Company.
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  This is an LP of sound poetry / experimental music recorded in 2020 and put in press in 2021 (due to delays because of Covid). Its release date is set for April 2022.
• Melillo, J. J., & Ruehlen, R. (2023. Where Tremble Heart. Unsilent Desert Press. Online and Tucson: Unsilent Desert Press.
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  This collaborative album with the media artist Ryan Ruehlen was created and recorded in 2021 and will be published in 2022. It is a sound collage composed of digitally manipulated instrumental improvisations, folk song, and environmental field recordings. It includes a poetics essay on field recording and place.
• Melillo, J. J. (2021. "Song" and "It is understood that water is the archetype of all links". Anamorphoseis Magazine - Issue 2 - "In Waves". Online: Anamorphoseis Magazine. https://anamorphoseis.wixsite.com/anamorphoseis
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  Two poems experimenting with visual form, fragmentation, and quotation.
• Melillo, J. J. (2021. "in the general rage" and "from The Mouth Is a Resonant Field". POG 2021 Chapbook - Chax Press. Tucson and Everywhere Else: Chax Press and POG Arts Tucson.
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  Two poems selected by Charles Alexander of Chax Press to be included as the introductory chapbook for POG's 2021-22 season. The poems consist of an excerpt from the chapbook "The Mouth Is a Resonant Field" and a collage poem.
• Melillo, J. J. (2021. A Green Thought in a Green Shade. Gash Trophy Experimental Tape Series. Tucson and Everywhere Else: Gash Trophy.
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  A 20 minute mix of field recording, guitar improvisation, and voice for the performance artist Igloo Martian's tape label, Gash Trophy. I produced one side of this tape--"A Green Thought in a Green Shade" and Tucson performance artists Fungus Wand and Mark Gifford produced the other side.
• Melillo, J. J. (2021. Negative Telephonics (for RE:FLUX Festival). RE:FLUX Festival of Sound Art. Online and Moncton, New Brunswick: RE:FLUX. https://www.festivalreflux.com/nqpjg-2021
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  This was a recorded piece selected by the international sound art festival Re:Flux Festival. My contribution included a 15 minute sound piece and a short essay on sound, media, and feeling.
• Melillo, J. J. (2021. On Local H's "Bound for the Floor". March Plaidness - the 2021 edition of the Marchxness essay "tournament.". Online: MarchXness. http://marchxness.com/plaidnesschampionship-kingsxvslocalh/
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  I wrote this essay on the grunge band Local H for the March Plaidness essay "tournament." This essay tournament is run by our colleague Ander Monson and his partner, Megan Campbell. The essay caught the eye of the band (thanks to twitter), and many fans voted for it (the band, really). It eventually was crowned the tournament champion. It was a fun ride. This essay reflects on the song, adolescence, and--more abstractly--"afterness."
• Melillo, J. J. (2021. The Mouth Is a Resonant Field Chapbook. 2182 Recording Company and Tanline Printing. Tucson and Everywhere Else: 2182 Recording Company.
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  This chapbook, produced at Tanline Studios with the book artists Jeik Ficker and Amanda Beekhuizen, will be distributed with the LP The Mouth Is a Resonant Field (2182 Recording Company). Early copies were distributed in the fall of 2021. The chapbook consists of a hybrid poem/essay on voice and sound.
• Melillo, J. J. (2019. "Waves 1," part of Wave Count, a Montage by Stefan Helmreich and Wayne Marshall. Wire Magazine Online. https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/wire-mix-wave-count-a-montage-by-wayne-marshall-and-stefan-helmreich?fbclid=IwAR3Shh8O_uf8Xa5Dz4zDY_2pxsNNhhslnDYVuwi9eiQfzLCpNw0pWk1YBM8: Wire Magazine. https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/wire-mix-wave-count-a-montage-by-wayne-marshall-and-stefan-helmreich?fbclid=IwAR3Shh8O_uf8Xa5Dz4zDY_2pxsNNhhslnDYVuwi9eiQfzLCpNw0pWk1YBM8
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  My sound work, Waves 1 (2013), was included in an online montage of music / sound art inspired by wave sounds.
• Melillo, J. J. (2019. embrace of the waves. ctrl + v. ctrl + v: ctrl + v. http://ctrlvjournal.com/issue2.html
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  A series of concrete poems published in the online journal ctrl + v.
• Melillo, J. J. (2018. "Field Recording 10". Arid Storms: An Compilation of Experimental Music from Outsider Industries. Tucson, AZ: Outsider Industries (Record Label). https://outsiderindustries.blogspot.com/2018/02/arid-storms-first-experimental-music.html?spref=fb
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  A recording for the noise / experimental music compilation, Arid Storms, released by Outsider Industries. Other tracks by Lana del Rabies, Zachary Reid (of North), and more.
• Melillo, J. J. (2017. "Garden". Weeds in the Desert: A Tucson Noise Compilation. Tucson, AZ: Phonophilia (Record Label). https://www.discogs.com/Various-Weeds-In-The-Desert-A-Tucson-Noise-Compilation/release/10762486
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  Recorded Performance for a Tucson-based Noise Compilation. Tape includes work by Mark Hosler (Negativland), Igloo Martian, and more.
• Melillo, J. J. (2017. Dry River. FREAKS (Record Label). Oakland, CA: FREAKS (Record Label). http://freakslabel.com/dry-river/
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  An album of improvised noise music, with Geoff Saba. Released by the independent label, FREAKS, located in Oakland, CA.
• Melillo, J. J. (2015. Algae & Tentacles. Lightning Records. http://www.lightning-usa.com/algae-and-tentacles/
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  Album
• Skibsrud, J. E., & Melillo, J. J. (2015. "Lake Jean: A Short Tour of the End of the World". Lightning Journal. Los Angeles, CA.
• Melillo, J. J. (2014. Waves and Words (study for Charles Babbage) / Time is the Invention of Past Snow / Wave (sssss). textsound: an online publication (Issue 19). http://textsound.org/index.php? ISSUE=19
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  Sound experiments and notes.

Creative Performances

• Melillo, J. J. (2021. A reading and performance for POG Tucson. POG presents Anne Waldman and John Melillo. Online and Tucson: POG Arts Tucson.
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  An online reading and sound art performance for POG Arts Tucson
• Melillo, J. J. (2019. Algae & Tentacles @ Le Non Jazz Series. Le Non Jazz Experimental Music Series. Le Petite Cafe, Paris, France: Le Non Jazz.
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  A performance of song, poetry, and noise for the long-running Paris-based music series Le Non Jazz.
• Melillo, J. J. (2019. Algae & Tentacles @ the Side Pony Express Music Festival. Two performances of song, poetry, and noise for The Side Pony Express Music Festival. Bisbee, Arizona.
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  I performed two sets at the Side Pony Express Music Festival. This festival is an annual festival of new and underground music, and musicians participate by invitation.
• Melillo, J. J. (2018. A soundtrack for Adela Licona's Tender Rage / Rabia Tierna. Multiple Events.
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  This soundtrack was composed as part of the artist-critic Adela Licona's collaborative online and offline project, Tender Rage / Rabia Tierno. These sounds--meant to loop with and through Licona's pop-up art installations--were made in collaboration with Licona in response to the separation of children from their parents at the border.
• Melillo, J. J. (2017. Algae & Tentacles at SussexCounty Avant-Garde. Inaugural Performance and Sound Art Installation at SussexCounty Avant-Garde Gallery. Tucson, Arizona: SussexCounty Avant-Garde Arts Non-Profit.
• Melillo, J. J. (2016. The Fall of the House of Usher: Live Soundtrack. Exploded View and Tucson Big Reads Presents: The Fall of the House Usher x4.
• Melillo, J. J. (2014. Solo Performance, "for two amplifiers and dictaphone recorder". Sound + Noise at MOCA Tucson. Tucson, AZ: Museum of Contemporary Art.
• Melillo, J. J. (2013. Member, Guitar Orchestra. Other Minds Presents: Rhys Chatham's "A Secret Rose". Crane Pavilian, Richmond, CA: Other Minds.

Others

• Melillo, J. J., Melillo, J. J., Skibsrud, J. E., & Skibsrud, J. E. (2015, April). Lake Jean: A Short Tour of the End of the World. Lightning Journal.
• Melillo, J. J. (2013, November). An Introduction to Clark Coolidge. University of Arizona Poetry Center Website. http://poetry.arizona.edu/features
• Melillo, J. J. (2011, December). A Curtain Speech for Anne Waldman and Noah Saterstrom’s Collaboration, "Soldatesque / Soldiering". University of Arizona Poetry Center Website. http://poetry.arizona.edu/features
• Melillo, J. J. (2011, October). Ten Books. University of Arizona Poetry Center Website. http://poetry.arizona.edu/features