Feb 19th event was a terrific success! Great attendance and fun by all. Video to be released shortly!

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The program that introduces this trailer can be read below…

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MEND™ A Technology revealed in the Master Epic
The Spell of Vaugirard from Creator and Composer
Mardi-Ellen Hill

19 Feb 2015 Event: Program Page 1:

MEH Multimedia is a groundbreaking enterprise targeted to the expanding market for cross-media entertainment. The core business is the marketing and sale of the epic adventure/mystery tale of the members of the Barrington Family as they use the MEND™ Technology to fight each other for control of mankind’s future.

Using unique, geographically linked musical clues, the Barrington saga will roll out through projects in traditional media (beginning with print, and moving to film, video, and music/soundtrack) and new media (including video games, DVD, Web, and wireless.) MEH Multimedia will offer the kind of complex, interactive universe required by savvy young consumers of entertainment today.

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As the Star Wars universe centers around Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, and the Dune universe focuses on House Atreides, the Universe of MEND™ revolves around the Barrington family and their unique gift, inherited over centuries, that allows them to perceive the fundamental structures of the real—the “implicate order,” as it is sometimes called in modern physics.
They perceive and manipulate this order primarily through music, which gives them the power to sequence DNA through a music-based code.

The Universe of MEND™ portfolio of assets include:

  • The five book series proposal [Contact Mardi-Ellen Hill for details]
  • The Spell of Vaugirard original Epic
  • Registered film script
  • Accompanying soundtrack/CD
  • Video Game Mechanic (initially projected as single user, for console system)

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Mardi-Ellen Hill, MEND™ Creator

Mardi-Ellen Hill, MEND™ Creator

About Mardi-Ellen Hill

Mardi-Ellen Hill, Founder, Creator and Visionary, is a winner of numerous NEA and other prestigious national and international awards. Ms. Hill has a history of executing highenddelivery, while moving through many disciplines (see her credits and bio on her website).

She is known for building product and educating loyal and equally multidisciplined talent at top speed. Her knowledge of her core business and product reach, including the moment of projected timely distribution, is
keen. The story of one’s genetic identity and work heritage, as it unfolds the unconscious-conscious path of a life, is a narrative that has engaged Ms. Hill since childhood. The drama of science and it’s mysteries are her tableau.

Executive Producer, composer, inventor – Mardi-Ellen Hill was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as a member of its 2014 ‘Women of Note Network’. Recently, she was featured on panels of expert at two major symposiums held by NYARM at the Hotel Pennsylvania and Tavern On The Green, and featured in an article published in the Mann Report’s February, 2015 issue.

Mardi-Ellen Hill is the CEO/Founder of MEH Multimedia and inventor of
MEND™ technology and multimedia assets.

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In 2002, Mardi-Ellen Hill was the recipient of an ASCAP award in for her work as a pioneer in the world of music invention and application in multiple markets. In 2000, as a professor at LIU, Ms. Hill was selected to represent the University in Washington D.C., at the definitive educational/literacy conference on “Intellectual Property and Distance
Learning”, sponsored by the PEW Charitable Trust.

She also developed/executive produced a Leadership Symposium where she introduced Kenneth K. Fisher, Brooklyn Representative to the New York City Council, as the keynote speaker.

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Special thanks to our sponsor, performers and panelists:
Margie Russell, Marissa Licata (violinist) Rosaline Murphy
(moderator), John Kiehl, Jose Martinez, Paris Cheffer, Peter Lurie and
David R. Iannone Jr.
Extra special thanks to Winifred Chane, Cornerstone and Converse for
the hopscotch sneaker support.

Contact Information:
Mardi-Ellen Hill (Executive Producer)
e. mardiellenh@aol.com
w. http://mardiellen.com/
w. https://menduniversebuzz.wordpress.com/ (here)

Press Release: Violinist Harnesses power to secure new global OS

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Press Release: New York, NY – February 12, 2015

Groundbreaking in the world of business synergy and integration, composer and executive producer Mardi-Ellen Hill presents The Universe of MEND™ – an epic adventure tale of a family Dynasty caught in a global battle for power, inheritance and an unstable new quantum technology used to encode and decode information and comes to life through a musical locking mechanism.

A Composers Now 2015 Festival featured event, presented by the New York Association of Realty Managers (NYARM), the first-ever live public presentation is set for Thursday, February 19, 2015, at noon.

[Trailer] |[Eventbrite]

STOP. WATCH. LISTEN. TRANSFORM will introduce audiences to The Universe of MEND™ beyond the existing original score, stage-play, book / script, blog and portfolio of assets.

On the ground floor Society Library Pavilion at The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, 20 West 44th Street. Manhattan, NY – STOP. WATCH. LISTEN. TRANSFORM will feature violinist Marissa Licata playing a live excerpt of the original score in choreography with visual scenes that will transport the audience into the digital mainframe of this new technology, blurring the lines of perception between fiction and reality.

Following the live performance will feature executive producer Mardi-Ellen Hill and her team of cross industry (Music, Technology, Film, Performance and Science) experts – Rosaline Murphy (moderator), John Kiehl, Jose Martinez, Paris Cheffer, Peter Lurie and Davie R. Iannone Jr. in a panel discussion around the storyline and theoretical implications raised by The Universe of MEND™. The event will close with an open audience Q&A, followed by a networking reception.

This event is open to media with RSVP and public for a suggested donation. Please contact Mardi-Ellen Hill for press RSVPs, questions or interview opportunities – mardiellenhill@aol.com / 212-470-7119.

About Composers Now

The Composers Now Festival celebrates living composers, the diversity of their voices and the significance of their musical contributions to our society.
During the month of February, the Festival brings together dozens of performances presented by venues, ensembles, orchestras, opera companies, dance companies and many other innovative events throughout New York City. Composers will be in attendance at all events, interacting with audiences. Composers Now is a project partner of The Fund for the City of New York. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the ASCAP Foundation, the BMI Foundation, the Cheswatyr Foundation, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

MarissaLicataAbout Marissa Licata

Boston and New York based, Honduran American violinist, Marissa Licata, is a star powerhouse soloist. Her electrifying passion and vibrant presence have been featured on international and world-renowned stages. With over 15 years of classical violin training, and her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the New England Conservatory, Marissa proved her natural versatility on her very first audition for Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull – winning the lead violin spot on his 2006 US tour. She would go on to join Jethro Tull for 5 more international tour, , as well as collaborations with many more musical icons cross genres, ranging from R&B, Pop, to Latin and Eastern European World music.

http://marissalicata.com/

About Mardi-Ellen Hill

Executive Producer, composer, inventor – Mardi-Ellen Hill was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as a member of its 2014 ‘Women of Note Network’. Recently, she was featured on panels of expert at two major symposiums held by NYARM at the hotel Penn and Tavern On The Green, and featured in an article published in the Mann Report’s February, 2015 issue. Mardi-Ellen Hill is the CEO/Founder of MEH Multimedia and inventor of MEND™ technology and multimedia assets.

In 2002, Mardi-Ellen Hill was the recipient of an ASCAP award in for her work as a pioneer in the world of music invention and application in multiple markets. In 2000, as a professor at LIU, Ms. Hill was selected to represent the University in Washington D.C., at the definitive educational/literacy conference on “Intellectual Property and Distance Learning”, sponsored by the PEW Charitable Trust. She also developed/executive produced a Leadership Symposium where she introduced Kenneth K. Fisher, Brooklyn Representative to the New York City Council, as the keynote speaker. In 1995, Banque Nationale de Paris tapped her technical talents as business analyst by sending her to review and oversee their systems dissemination at the International Monetary Fund Conference in Washington, D.C.

During the 90’s Ms. Hill received numerous other grants and awards as composer/writer, including two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Annette Kade Fulbright Grant, Works in Process at the Guggenheim Series, She received several international commissions, including being the first woman commissioned by the Group Musiques de Vivantes in Lyon France, the French Consulate, the Canadian Consulate General and the Royal Bank of Canada. She has served as judge and panelist of several international competitions, and state and federal arts programs, including the Brooklyn Arts Council.

A wunderkind’s internal GPS lines her family’s pockets with gold

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Rae’s Theme:

Is this amazing capability a weapon, or the future of humankind’s salvation?

Graffiti. Not American. This kid is spelling out the hidden GPS route of a melody chiming through the city.  High noon. Her father, a Hedge Fund wiz figures it’s a slam dunk. He’s hidden in the shadows, sending a message over his mobile to his assistant in the States. What reigns in nano form will become a scripted global execution.

The strange tune (play above) is his family’s ancestral melody. A Brand source code encrypted in the tune, will launch a virtual elevator. The lift is primed to deliver product through a digital library that encrypts all data using the family’s latest invention MEND™. But the family, spread out across the globe, is in a merciless fight over the ownership of MEND™.

Something goes terribly wrong. In a global setting the tune has a mind of its own. Scroll down for the story of how this powerful dynasty brings hidden knowledge to earth in the 21st century. If only we can get aboard their magic, before they destroy their ancestral gift…?

A superstar is killed for the secret to her amazing talent

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Enter a new integrated multiplatform system: MEND™, a technology introduced through a powerful story

Rachel Barrington’s final concert is jam packed. Word on the street is that the superstar is under surveillance, a pawn in a familial dispute. Her inventor father and her lover are at odds. This is a volatile combination, since they both are working on a top secret experiment surrounding the DNA of Rachel’s ancestors. The suspect list is narrow, kept tightly under wraps. The family is about to engage in a sport that most of us have never dreamed of.

Upon her passing, an acoustic trick known only to her immediate family, allows them to piece together musical clues that she has left behind; and interpret the clues for their own private enterprise. Within seconds of her death, an international fight breaks out over the family’s right to withhold valuable data that could change the direction of human kind.

As the fight heats up, a traitor in the family surfaces. Who murdered Rachel? The murder itself becomes almost inconsequential to the larger picture unfolding on the global stage. A sudden explosion emanating from the inventor’s office is streaming undecipherable data across the sky. All eyes , iPhones, handhelds are glued to the stark moment. The night sky is bright like the day. Meanwhile the resounding echo of Rachel’s song has landed in the ears of a child about to unlock the dangerous colliding pathway. Here comes the split second access for us to come aboard. You won’t want to miss this once in a lifetime access.

Remote Access Capability

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The fight for insider MEND™ product status

An inventor’s genetic destiny sparks a global threat – will you come aboard to join in the diabolical fun? - The amazing world of MEND™ has a book series, film script, games, music, a blog and numerous other products for online and off-line content and immersive space interactivity. A simple lullaby tune morphs/ evolves over centuries. The song has supernatural powers. This family tune can be used miraculously to unlock signature content. The characters born…
Quartet For The End of Time… - A story of a thrilling and dangerous new technology comes to life in the hands of four people. They have entered a room where the power of an age-old dynasty is located. Within the boundaries of this room, the dynasty’s trade secrets can instantly be transmitted to portals around the world. An inventor with a…
Interview with Mardi-Ellen Hill: 930AM WPAT – Multicultural Radio - Mardi-Ellen Hill was interviewed by Diandra Archibald in New York City in mid June 2013 [9:00]. Listen and read on – you will discover amazing secrets to this new cross-media work.
Our Globe, A Puzzle Enfolded In One Frame - THE SPELL OF VAUGIRARD is an epic saga. The prequel book: THE SKELETON SCORE reveals the powers of an ancient dynasty. In the middle ages a crime takes place. A child discloses a family secret. He is quartered and buried at a certain time of day. The parts of the body form a puzzle, a prophesy…
MEND™Elevator01_4loop The Barringtons , their divine power withstands corruption…. a story about a hidden gift and a new real deal technology! - A Scrambled Message travels by elevator, floor by floor, a four syllable message unfolds in different scenes and cities, until it lands as a full sentence in a hidden destination in Washington D.C  Access code to the new technology MEND™, unlocks the ancestral secrets of a powerful dynasty. Learning the dynasty’s gift of narration, transmission of message, and high powered performance is a shoe-in for the public with this App demo!…
Sneak Preview… MEND™ tablet apps coming soon! - Check out our App sneak preview! The Keyboard uncovers an old french village and a hidden code – the memo posesses a 21st century celeb. A brazen lyric she writes, uncovers the meaning of the memo and gets her killed – we get inside a dynasty’s madness and power! Be sure to go the ‘Flagship store’…

Copyright © 2014 Mardi-Ellen Hill

WSJ-graphic_2I am thrilled to announce I have been invited to join The Wall Street Journal’s “Women of Note” network. Thank you to everyone who got me on the WSJ’s hot list.

The welcome letter I received included the following:

“…You have been nominated for Women of Note, an exclusive network of powerful female leaders from The Wall Street Journal’s advertising and marketing division designed to recognize and foster the continued success of innovative women. Members will receive special gifts and invitations to exclusive events, as well as recognition in the promotional pages of The Wall Street Journal and WSJ. Magazine.” Mardi-Ellen Hill

MENDing the Gap Between Fiction and Reality

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by Dustin McManus

First published on Small Business Majority blog, on Friday Jul 18th 2014.

Mardi-Ellen Hill, creator of MEND

Mardi-Ellen Hill, creator of MEND

It’s not often that consumers gets to fully immerse themselves in, and become a part of, the product that’s sold to them. But MEND, an interactive story, is both an ambitious product and small business that seeks to combine fiction with reality.

The genesis of MEND is rooted in a fictional narrative written by Mardi-Ellen Hill, who conceived an entire business plan and company around the idea of an interactive story.  What she came up with is an operating system that allows people to interact with elements of the story and use the system to engage with those elements, such as a decoding a secret language that drives the story’s plot. MEND is a device that places readers of the story straight into the heart of the action.

The original book bible follows a female protagonist named Lily Barrington who’s family’s checkered past comes back to haunt her, placing her in grave danger. MEND is an invention within the story fought over by the characters and also the real-world product of Hill’s business.

The system allows readers and consumers to further participate in the narrative elements of Hill’s sweeping epic, almost like an interactive digital encyclopedia. Users can use MEND’s musical language system to decode the secret languages of the story and discover profound clues to the diabolical plot unfolding.

Hill realizes the concept is a lot to take in, noting that her biggest challenge is “articulating the difference between MEND, the work of fiction and MEND the real time operating system. MEND is both a work of fiction, and a work of reality.”

With the creation of MEND as a tangible and consumable product, Hill has bulldozed through the passive limits of storytelling, fostering a truly immersive audio-visual story that readers can actively participate in. And Hill doesn’t plan on slowing the expansion of MEND anytime soon.

“Taking off as a business is the exact stage MEND is entering now,” she said. “I always knew that after the initial conceptualization phase I would be looking to partner with a publishing company, a movie production company, a gaming company and private enterprise partners.”

Currently, the story of MEND is being produced as a script for Hollywood and has already been staged as a play production that sparked the concept for morphing MEND into other adaptions, such as books and games.

However, the most exciting part of Hill’s journey has been the evolution and innovation in technology that has enabled MEND to become a truly interactive journey for consumers.

This activity was a lot of fun, especially considering a lot of this technology did not exist when I first wrote the story. Suddenly much more of this story was understandable to a much wider audience.”

With technology continuing to catch up with Hill’s effervescent imagination, the sky’s the limit for where she’ll be able to take us with MEND next.

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