She works in various contexts including theatre, film, surround sound, live performance and installation. Recent works include sound design and composition for PACT Theatre productions Harvest, Beguiled and Bully Beef Stew. Melissa is interested in the theatre of sound and its transformative qualities. She interplays arrangements of sounds, natural and artificial, with references to old and new music. Her work has been described as “Dr Caligari becomes cyber futurist Blake’s 7”. At Pretty Gritty she will do some live rendering of the her soundtrack for Sam James’ 3D video work Artifact Cartoons (2012).