About

Elaine Mullen is a writer and musician currently based in New England whose work tends to rest somewhere on the intersection of experimentation and improvisatory spontaneity, wrapped in surrealism, absurdity, and general silliness.

Mullen tends to write short fiction with an emphasis on minimalism on the level of structure and sentence, but occasionally branches out into poetry (particularly haiku and ghazal) and the occasional essay. Musically she focuses on electronics, piano, and saxophone, and often keeps to constructional, generative, and improvisational means of making music. Genres of interest include improvised music, noise, ambient, early tape music/musique concrete, and jazz of all styles.

Regardless of what she's working on, Mullen feels the need to emphasize the inherent fun and mystery of art—at least partially in retaliation to the increasing dichotomizing of art between commercial and academic interests. Currently she's actively seeking collaborators of any medium. A dream of hers is to start a collective of self-sufficient artists working from a bottom-up, non-hierarchical social structure, that creates work entirely in-house, down to the physical production of books, etc.