New Narratives Through Transformations Of Structure

These compositions explore melodies as memes—musical ideas that are propagated through repetition—and how, through processes of variation and mutation, their meaning is altered.

• Elegy For A Stranger (audiovisual)
  The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine"
• Compound C21H23NO5 (audiovisual)
  Bent's "Swollen"
• Blood For Speech
  Radiohead's "Pyramid Song"
• Someday
  Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's "Over The Rainbow" from 'The Wizard Of Oz'
• Without You
  U2's "With Or Without You"

Emlyn Ellis Addison

What is said through art does not change; only how it's said.

Emlyn's compositional philosophy is rooted in the processes and strategies of structure. His New Narratives Through Tranformations Of Structure series explores the effect of structure on meaning through the mutation and variation of melodic memes: popular melodies are transformed by altering their context.

Intrapsychological Exposures is a cycle of works structured on artificial harmonic overtone series, which explores our capacity to experience events, the self, others, and actions in context of time.

Ideas that can be represented by numbers, shapes and colors can theoretically also be represented by frequencies. His Symmetrical Cube Matrix is an analysis of a musical structure formed within number sets and geometry.