// Melinda Bronstein: quality Turnip
Melinda is an inter-disciplinary artists exploring magic in the mundane. Constructing beautifully wonky atmospheres through improvised vocal drone loops, casiotone, noises and toyses, and found objects.
‘Quality Turnip’ is an hour of eclectic audio tumblings, whirring cassettes and voices wafting in wonky thoughts. There are snippets of conversations intertwined with broken tape player versions of songs and odd little
improvisations.
Tracklist:
All improvised songs by Melinda Bronstein, the ones over piano were made this week on August 19th, and the rest were made over distorted vinyl by Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Vangelis, Nico and others
Tracklist:
4-trk demos (2006) and improvisations (2024) by Melinda Bronstein
Tracklist:
The Field Guide Radio - Bones & The Fire (Melinda Bronstein Remix)
Angelo Badalamenti - Night Life in Twin Peaks (Instrumental)
Voices: Lily Buchanan, Julie Freeman, Kasper and Lilly, Rebecca Strickson, Mish Harris, Grace Attlee,
Improvisations: Melinda Bronstein, Simon Lord, Birdie Hamilton, Hannah Wood
Tracklist:
American Kooter -Trans Am
7 Hpschd Seven -Cage / Hiller
Anything –Bronstein / Lord6 –Benedict Drew
Voices: Ben Driftwood, Grace Attlee, Graham Godfrey, Leo Lindsay, Simon Lord, Jem
Improvisations: Melinda Bronstein, Simon Lord, Birdie James Hamilton
Tracklist:
Wonky Cassette versions in no order:
Vangelis – Abraham's Theme
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five – White Lines
Philip Glass – music in 12 parts (parts 1& 2) excerpt
Reading from: 'South of the Border, West of the Sun' by Haruki Murakami
Voices: Hannah Wood, Mish Harris, Emily Slime, Lily Buchanan, Lynda O’Neil, Maggie, Hannah Wells.
Improvisations: Melinda Bronstein, Simon Lord, Haruki Shimazono.
Tracklist:
Wonky Cassette versions in no order:
Classic Rock Orchestral Version - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
First Love - Mary Youngblood
Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire
Maurice Jarre - theme from Doctor Zhivago
Vangelis - Five Circles
The Smiths – Asleep
Excerpt: 'New Forms In Film: Montreaux 1974' Ernie Gehr
Voices: Melinda Bronstein, Mish Harris, Simon Lord, Emily Slime, Billie M Vigne
Improvisations: Melinda Bronstein, Simon Lord
Tracklist:
Melinda Bronstein - Poem ‘Solstice End’
Far Rainbow - The Blue Hugeness Parts I - IV (excerpt)
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - 09-15-00
Japan - Ghosts
Pere Ubu - Real World
Monkees - Zilch
Osibisa - Adwoa
Tom Ze - Jimmy Renda-Se
Neu! - Leiber Honig
Tortoise / Autechre - To Day Retrieval
Rings - Is He Handsome
Stina Nordenstam - Get On With Your Life
Laurie Anderson - Violin Walk (Live)
Scott Walker - Rosary
Wolfgang Knittel - If We Only Have Love
Tracklist:
Klára Körmendi - Erik Satie: Gnossienne #2
Talk Talk - Chameleon Day
The Cure - A Reflection
Laurie Anderson - Kokoku
CAN - Moonshake
Kraftwerk - Die Mensch Machine
Super Furry Animals - Pan Ddaw’r Wawr
Yo La Tengo - Point And Shoot
Mighty Baby - Egyptian Tomb
Gal Costa - Tuareg
Josephine Foster - Where There Are Trees
Grouper - Tidal Wave
Jack Nitzsche - Act Of Love
Nico - Eulogy To Lenny Bruce
Euros Childs - Billy The Seagull
This Heat (feat Charles Hayward) - Another Flaming Tune
Hans Otte - Das Buch der Klänge (Part 6)
Sam Cooke - Soothe Me
Tracklist:
Laurie Anderson - Neon Duet (For Violin and Neon Bowl)
Chicago Underground Trio - The Enormous Room
Ivor Cutler - An Old Oak Tree
David Grubbs - Stanwell Perpetual
Marvin Pontiac - Small Car
The Velvet Underground - Ocean
Talk Talk - Taphead
Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - It’s You
The Invisible Girls - Procession
Laurie Anderson - Born, Never Asked
Toumani Diabaté - Ali Farka Toure
Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather
The Walker Brothers - No Regrets
Tracklist:
Wind Words - Stomu Yamash'ta
Laser Beam - Low
Excerpt #10 - John Cage
Damage - Yo LA Tengo
Theme From Cavafy - Vangelis
Eagle Clan - Mary Youngblood
Last Breath - Low
ways of seeing - anrimeal
You Belong To The Sky Now - El Perro Del Mar
Almost Always Is Nearly Enough - Tortoise
Sex Machine - Flying Lizards
Dancing For Money [Unfinished Outtake] - Talking Heads
Proven Lands - Jonny Greenwood
New Rules For Wendy - The Shining Soundtrack
Ave Genghis Khan - Os Mutantes
The Witch (Made to Measure) - Clinic
Le Song - Electrelane
What Part of Me - Low
Rotor - Cluster
Dr. Baker - The Beta Band
Tracklist:
A Lover Loves-Scott Walker
Fearful Dream-Susumu Yokota
Logic (Parts 1 & 2)-Mice Parade
I’ve Seen That Face Before [Libertango]-Grace Jones
Unstoppable-Santogold
Aftermath-Tricky
Hold Back The Night-Sinéad O’Connor
When Doves Cry-Prince
Squiggly Lines-Daniel Johnston
Unchanging Window / Chord Simple-Broadcast
Fredag-Dungen
Passover-Joy Division
About You-ESG
Third Uncle-Bauhaus
Title Music From Clockwork Orange-Wendy Carlos
Tracklist:
Sonderangebot - Neu!
Light Of The Sun - Susumu Yokota
Beautiful Red Dress - Laurie Anderson
Deliverance - Vangelis
It's Our Cathedral - Tiki Erie
The Virgo Supercluster Suite / Orion Nebula - United Women's Orchestra
On Your Own Again - Scott Walker
Dance Of Death - John Fahey
Rejoicing in the Hands - Devendra Banhart
Honk If You're Lonely - Silver Jews
What Should I Do? - The Shaggs
Want Not Want Not - The Roches
Breaking The Hex - Gnod
Nobody's Dancing - Roots Manuva
I Zimbra - Talking Heads
Iron Man - Stereolab
Shadows - Yo La Tengo
In Your Eyes - War
Tracklist:
Spirits Drifting - Brian Eno
Zamsu - Sigur Rós / Mogwai
24 Track Loop - This Heat
The Piccolo Snare - Super Furry Animals
Shut Up - Monks
You Can’t Kill Me - Gong
Time - Ivor Cutler
Cartrouble - Adam & The Ants
Delirious - Prince
Angry Candy - Autolux
Modern Girl - Sleater-Kinney
Lila Engel (Lilac Angel) - Neu!
Cold Blooded - Rick James
A Beautiful Woman - Ivor Cutler
Old Tom Clark - The Red Krayola
Cover Me - Björk
Oh My Love - John Lennon
Tracklist:
Anthrax - Gang Of Four
Runnin’ Away - Sly & The Family Stone
You’re No Good - Dee Dee Warwick
Whirly-Bird - Silver Apples
Snowball - Devo
Sunset Coming On - Damon Albarn
Let X=X - Laurie Anderson
I’m On Fire - Electrelane
Parisian Dream - Laura Viers
Les Fleurs - Tindersticks
I Don’t Blame You - Cat Power
A Stone In Water - The Leaf Library
The Gift - Mark Hollis
Hey, Who Really Cares? - Linda Perhacs
Be Dark Night - Phosphorescent
All Is Full Of Love - Björk
House Of Cards - Radiohead
Tracklist:
Solo Guitar with Tin Foil - Brian Eno & David Byrne
G - Labradford
Wheat Futures - Camberwell Now
Diamond (April) - Emil Richards
(Get A ) Grip (On Yourself) - The Stranglers
Virginia Plain - Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo
Monkeys - Echo & The Bunnymen
Every Day I Have To Cry A Little - Dusty Springfield
Step - Low
Sex, Work, Robots - Super Furry Animals
Animal Magic - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Rachmaninoff - Aerial M
Chinese Bakery - The Auteurs
Johnny Take A Ride - Madder Rose
Colours - Donovan
Been Here Before - Fever Ray
The Way - Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Tracklist:
Rag For William S. Burroughs - Matmos
Heart Beat, Pig Meat - Pink Floyd
Chromatic - Faust
When The Wind Arises - The Rokes
Newtown - The Slits
Sister Europe - The Psychedelic Furs
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Kestral Dawn - Chrome Hoof
#1 - Animal Collective
Dizzy Dizzy - CAN
Odi Et Amo - Jóhann Jóhannsson
Rerelease Hysteresis - Mouse On Mars
Solitons - The Nameless Book
You Set The Scene - Love
The Way I Feel Inside - The Zombies
Tracklist:
A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce - David Sylvian
Restless Waters - Tortoise
Resplash - Camberwell Now
Lights Out - The Nameless Book
Foreign Board - Soeza
I Know What Boys Like - Waitresses
Experimental Music Love - The Magnetic Fields
So Stylistic - FannyPack
Pounds Of Soul - Betty Bibbs
Ghetto Funk - Ike & Tina Turner
Sabre Dance - Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnys
Shrivel Up - Devo
Your Poison - Low
Chuncho - Yma Sumac
Chimacum Rain - Linda Perhacs
The Fall Of Saigon - This Heat
Hot Shit - Quasi
Tracklist:
Gate Song - Bis Bara
Traces Of Elements - Rothko And Caroline Ross
Satellite - Elliot Smith
Baby - Iggy Pop
The Tightrope - The Glove
Majhnavea's Music Box - Lisa Gerrard
Noteform - Benge
Desapareceré - Deerhoof
Caramel - Cluster
Taschenrechner (Edit) - Kraftwerk
Asleep - Merz
See Nothing / From Love - Melinda Bronstein / Mike Lindsay (remix)
Garden of Love - Clor
Jocko Homo - Devo
When I See Mommy I Feel Like Like A Mummy - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Dog On The Sidewalk - Deerhoof
Still Feels Like Tears - Broadcast
Christine - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Looking Glass Girl - The Glove
Sea Within A Sea - The Horrors
I Don't Remember - Peter Gabriel
5 Years - Björk
Contact - Brigitte Bardot
Good To Me As I Am To You - Aretha Franklin
Careless Love - Camera Obscura
Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind - Yo La Tengo
Mildred Pierce Reporting (Old Sarge) - William S. Burroughs & Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - The Carpenters
Flying - The Beatles
Light Returned - Fire stations and The Leaf Library
Tracklist:
Þversögn - Sigur Rós
What I Saw - Broadcast & The Focus Group
God Only Knows - The Langley Schools Music Project
My Mother Said - Christopher Casson
Pulses - Steve Reich
Glass: Einstein On The Beach - Knee Play 5 - Michael Riesman; Philip Glass Ensemble
Neonlicht (Single Edit) - Kraftwerk
Pedestal - Portishead
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Hlemmur 3 - Sigur Rós
Israel - Siouxsie and the Banshees
007 Model 7: Hellelujah - Karlheinz Stockhausen
Strugglin' - Tricky
A Pillow Of Winds - Pink Floyd
Procession Of Cherry Blossom Spirits - Six Organs Of Admittance
Hlemmur 2 - Sigur Rós
Juno - Life Without Buildings
I've Got A Secret Miniature Camera - Peter Murphy
Chinese Radiation - Pere Ubu
Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Psychic TV
Automatic - Yuck
Why Oh Why - Laura Veirs
The Name Game 1965 - Shirley Ellis
Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth
Hlemmur 1 - Sigur Rós
It's Not The Only Way To Feel Happy - Field Music
If You Go Away - Dusty Springfield
Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
Angels Standing Guard 'round The Side Of Your Bed - A Silver Mt. Zion
Extract From Poppy Nogood "All Night Flight" - Terry Riley
The Village Crier is Crying All Over The Village - The Voices Of Bulgaria
Concerto for Two Pianists and Five Tape Recorders (extract) - Terry Riley
Tracklist:
Charmaine - Jack Nitzsche
Wilderness Theme - The Pastels
Unnatural Habitat - The Greenhornes
You’re The Only One Joe - Ramses
Like Spinning Plates - Radiohead
Dream / Death - Melinda Bronstein
Hallo Excentrico ! - Neu!
The Sphinx - Nico
Streams - Gnod
Walking & Falling - Laurie Anderson
Choke Cherry Season - R. Carlos Nakai
Still / Time - Melinda Bronstein
Cassetto - Neu!
Leibe And Romanze (Slow Version) - The Slits
See / Nothing - Melinda Bronstein
Theme From Marie - The Berg Sans Nipple
Frosti - Bjork
Jardins - Brainticket
Feeeeling - Mathew Sawyer
From / Love - Melinda Bronstein
It’s Alright - ESG
Pets - Porno For Pyros
Dog - El Perro Del Mar
She Is Dancing - Brian Kelly
Maybe Not - Cat Power
Ghost Dance - Patti Smith
Sad Violin Thing - Nick Cave / Warren Ellis
A Jewish Triptych: Lamenta - Bulgarian State Television Female Choir
In / Reverse - Melinda Bronstein
Ritual / Looking In - Broadcast & The Focus Group
7 Spoon - CAN
5 Here To There - Michael Nyman
Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road - Robert Wyatt
Taking / You - Melinda Bronstein
The Proposition #2 - Nick Cave / Warren Ellis
Tracklist:
Seagulls - PJ Harvey
Albatross- Judy Collins
Man Is Not A Bird - Broadcast
Bird - The Knife
Excellent Birds - Laurie Anderson
The Nightingale - Julee Cruise
Gus The Mynah Bird - Stereolab
Chicken Bones - Melinda Bronstein
Wounded Bird - Heather Woods Broderick
Like A Swallow - Stina Nordenstam
Cuckoo - Kristen Hersh
Pretty Bird - Jenny Lewis
Two Birds - Regina Spektor
Magpies - Joan As Police Woman
Nightingale - Laura Viers
BIrd Flu - M.I.A.
Tracklist:
Silken Tide - Sea Glass
Charlie Brown Theme - Henri Mancini
What If Birds Aren’t Singing They’re Screaming - Aldous Harding
Beautiful Way - Beck
Deeply, Deeply Me - Bee Gees
Amorino - Isobel Campbell
Push It Out - Beta Band
Tiny Girls - Iggy Pop
I Only Think Of You - The Horrors
Fell In Love With A Girl - Brakes
Pure Imagination - Gene Wilder
Velvet Days (String Version) - Kristin Hersh
Ghetto Funk - Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm
My Mama Said - ABBA
Colonel Hathi's March (the Elephant Song) - J. Pat O'Malley and the Disney Studio Chorus
Stay Up Late - Talking Heads
Cool Water - Laura Viers
Tracklist:
Satie: Menu Propos Enfantins - Ce Que Dit La Petite Princesse Des Tulipes. Tres Lent - Klára Körmendi
Don’t Give Up - Peter Gabriel
Poor Moon - Canned Heat
Radio-No-Youni (Comme A La Radio) - Asa-Chang & Junray
Tomorrow - Paul Williams
If It’s In You - Syd Barrett
"John Cage Excerpt #5" - John Cage
Ruby (July) - Emil Richards
Sorrow - Life Without Buildings
Yvette In English - Joni Mitchell
She Moved Through The Fair - Odetta
Question Mark - Melinda Bronstein
Shakin’ All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
The Bargain Store - Dolly Parton
Golden Hair - Syd Barrett
Die Sonata in Urlauten - Kurt Schwitters
The Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy, Pt. 2: Outer Temple - Gong
Don’t Go Near The Water - The Beach Boys
Aurora - Veruca Salt
R Mountain - Sarah Louise
Tracklist:
Blackened Anchor - Laura Viers
Pink Orange Red - Cocteau Twins
Wait - Daniel Ӧgren
I Love You - Ivor Cutler
The Park - Feist
Singing - Wesley Willis
The Witch - The Rattles
Nasty Gal - Betty Davis
John Cage Excerpt #2 - John Cage
The Jezebel Spirit - Brian Eno & David Byrne
Bluish - Animal Collective
I Worn My Elbows - Ivor Cutler
Organ Solo - Neil Young
John Cage Excerpt #6 - John Cage
Debora - Marc Bolan & T.Rex
Earth People - Rameses
Broken Harp - PJ HArvey
My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker
Lean - Ivor Cutler
Come On In - The Music Machine
Purple Rain - Stina Nordenstam
Two Balls - Ivor Cutler
Strangers in The Night - Robert Wyatt
Risveglio Di Una Citta - Various Artists - Musica Futurista
Tracklist:
The Call - Sheila Chandra
Melt Your Heart - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
He Cried - The Shangri-Las
Rocking Chair - Jane Birkin
Family Tree - TV On The Radio
Jimmy - M.I.A.
Witness (1 Hope) - Roots Manuva
First Time I Saw You - Euros Childs
Seagreen Serenade - Silver Apples
Complex - Gary Numan
Art Decade - David Bowie
Keep The Streets Empty For Me - Fever Ray
The First Time - Roberta Flack
Female Cop - Thurston Moore
Lynchstrumental - Wet Paint
Tracklist:
Spock Thoughts - Leonard Nimoy
When Under Ether - PJ Harvey
Safeway Cart - Neil Young
Exercise - with several hands on the piano - Faust
The Cornubia - BEAK>
Yummy Yummy Yummy - Julie London
Meeksville Telephone Answering Message - Joe Meek
Dirty Blue Gene - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Jynweythek Ylow - Aphex Twin
Smuckers - Lambchop
Emerald (May) - Emil Richards
Inner Island - El Perro Del Mar
Dream Wanderers Tune - Deerhoof
John Cage Excerpt #4 - John Cage
Subject to the Ladder - Broadcast
Shiva-Loka - ALice Coltrane
Still/Time - Melinda Bronstein
So Glad - David Lynch
The Provider - Angels of Light
Tracklist:
Miserere - Ennio Morricone
Into Dust - Mazzy Star
God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Interlude 1 (Wrinkled Earlobes Are A Sign Of Impending Heart attacks) - William S. Burroughs & Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
Drugs - Talking Heads
Past, Present And Future - The Shangri-Las
Illuminine - Thurston Moore
Jennifer - Faust
Blank Like Snow (Movietone cover) - Sea Glass
XI - Richard Dawson and Rhodri Davies
Bown Bown Bown - Françoise Hardy
Hunting Bears - Radiohead
Langue d'Amour - Laurie Anderson
Van Gogh Boat - Michael Wincott
Guitar Solo 4 - Neil Young
Dance Dance Dance - Lykke Li
You Make Me Weak At The Knees - Electrelane
Raining In My Heart - Buddy Holly
Tracklist:
Palimpsest - Smog
We’re Gonna Rise - The Breeders
Bridge 1 - Tarentel
Tailors - the Young Knives
The Northern Lights Are Out - Rothko and Caroline Ross
Horses in My Dreams - PJ Harvey
When I Grow Up - Fever Ray
Time - Sly & The Family Stone
The Secret Society of Ants - Gnod
Harp For My Sweetheart - Archie Bronson Outfit
Lust - Low
A Life (1895 - 1915) - Mark Hollis
Tehellet - Jonny Greenwood
Le Pont Mirabeau (Poem) - Guillaume Apollinaire
Just For A While - Firestations
Birthday - Sugarcubes
Steal Away - Brian Eno
Tracklist:
Runners Dial Zero - Beck
Laser Beam - Low
Unravel - Bjork
Dream Letter - Tim Buckley
Sand River - Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
Listening Wind - Talking Heads
Frozen Warnings - Nico
Night Tide - Sea Glass
900 - Breeders
Where is Love - Leonard Nimoy
Willow’s Song - Paul Giovanni
Back of Your Head - Cat Power
Boy Child - Scott Walker
Alifib - Robert Wyatt
Untitled - Andrew Bird