The Music Experience Lab (MEL) creates, investigates, and documents musical experiences across multiple domains. MEL operates within and beyond disciplinary boundaries to answer questions about what music is and why it is important to us. We are musicians, artists, scholars, and activists who understand music as a rhizomatic process of listening, performing, and providing. Our projects range from one-time experiences to complex multi-year research programs resulting in concrete deliverables such as publications, recordings, grants, public events, concerts, conferences, and music festivals.