Eiliyas(Nicholas A. Kelly) is a sound artist who has done installations, performances as well as audio zines and sonic essays. He is also the host and creator of the platform Mixtape Menage, a blog/podcast that aims to get to know the creators and cultural facilitators through their music collection. He also hosts this in a radio format on various community oriented radio platforms such as Refuge Worldwide, THF Radio, Berlin Community Radio(defunct) and Melodic Distraction in Liverpool.

He has given talks regarding sonic creativity at Du Montfort University, Kunsthochschule Weissensee and for the organization Brighter Sounds in Manchester, UK as well as being included on the panel discussion “Decoding the Eurocentric” at Pathos München. He is also co-curator of the Fall 2023 Soy and Synth program.

Recent sonic performances and invocations of Eiliyas include Fusion Festival in Lars, Germany, Blurred Edges Festival in Hamburg, Germany, WORM in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Morphine Studio in Berlin, Germany.