cajid media

sound & video artist
jacques [at] cajid [dot] com

Jacques Soddell is a Bendigo-based sound artist (live performance and installation). He mainly works with field recordings which he often manipulates beyond recognition and layers them to create electroacoustic soundscapes. He sometimes works in 4 channels, and has recently started improvising multilayered images to his soundscapes.  He also creates works for live arts group Punctum and choreographer Megan Beckwith. Recent projects include Precipice, Pandemonium  Pavillion, The River, Memory Fragment #1, Museum of Lost Sounds (with Paul Fletcher) and I'm Dreaming of a French Meadow (with Jude Anderson, Tara Gilbee & Cedric Peyronnet). He curates experimental music series Undue Noise, runs sound art label cajid media and presents Possible Musics, an experimental music program on local community radio (since 1983). He was an environmental microbiologist in a former life, and retains an interest in sonification of scientific data, and creation of art based on water themes.

frozen moment wading through Cedric Peyronnet's massive collection of sound bites from his Taurion sound map, I paused at the sounds from Pont du Dognon. Recalling the magical frozen pond near the end of Tarkovsky's Solaris, I was drawn to the icy sounds. So this is the piece, using samples from around Pont du Dognon, and manipulating / processing them heavily in my usual fashion. mini cdr kaon.org
precipice sound design for play by Cath Ryan. directed by Laurence Stangio. Castlemaine State Festival april 2-4
pandemonium pavilions pandemonium soundscape for theatrical installation, directed by Jude Anderson. Castlemaine State Festival. april 2-3

immersion studio. collaborative punctum seedpod residency at old fire station bendigo with tessa elieff  resulting in 10 channel immersive sound performance.  sept/nov
who's afraid of the dark? sound design fora sensory exploration of the dark by lighting designer katie sfetkidis. sept 3-4, icu, castlemaine
metasonic 2 curator, sound installations jun 23 - jul 23 allans walk artist run space, bendigo
face of stone short film at "sonic island" melbourne international animation festival. VCAM Cinema Southbank. June 24
enlightenment project soundtrack for outdoor video projection by Jim Coad & Tara Gilbee. kyneton museum Apr 30
live gigs with cedric peyronnet (toy.bizarre) feb 27 (abbotsford convent) feb 28 (ICU)
i'm dreaming of a french meadow sound & video for installation by Jude Anderson (with Tara gilbee, Cedric peyronnet). Abbottsford Convent Feb 2010
bahn chung. sound design for theatre installation by Chi Vu. richmond library theatre Feb 2010
yarra. sound piece for installation by Ernesto Rios. off the kerb gallery, collingwood
(d)raft. short video in RAFT curated by Stephen Turpie. Allans Walk Artist Run Space. Jan 2010

akousmatikoi. cable sound collective 's 22 speaker acousmonium - diffusion collaboration with tessa elief. northcote town hall. nov 25
the play's the thing. soundscape for Kate Stone's playful interactive installation. ICU Castlemaine, nov 6-21
cine-sonic. expanded cinema performance with dirk de bruyn. icu castlemaine. sept 6
the river - sound, light & video installation at la trobe university visual arts centre, view st bendigo july 23 - aug 16
flashpoint score for choreography by Megan Beckwith, BSSC entry in Rock Eisteddfod.
metasonic curator, sound installations july 8-25. dudley house, bendigo
dinner in a dry dam  sound & video design for punctum production by jude anderson. various locations in victoria including castlemaine state festival
telescope soundtrack for Dirk de Bruyn film
 

memory fragment #1. sound and video installation. allan's walk artist run space, bendigo, nov 20-dec 13 exhibition essay
tape projects 06. contribution to 12" locked groove album as part of flip book/ locked groove installation. Electrofringe Newcastle, Reviewed in Realtime
liquid architecture. national sound art festival. performer in sydney, melbourne, cairns & perth. reviews in realtime magazine Sydney and Melbourne. Also curator for bendigo & castlemaine. july. http://liquidarchitecture.org.au
the big smoke group show with tara gilbee, andrew goodman, greg pritchard, kathryn mccool, noah grosz . curated by julian white. blindside. july.
museum of lost sounds Jacques Soddell & Paul Fletcher. multimedia installation at Allans's Walk artist run space. june. exhibition essay
other live gigs Grey Daturas, Sore, Jacques Soddell & Beat Disease. Newmarket Hotel. Bendigo. Jan 26. Footscray audioVisual Social Club May 13. plus appearances @ undue noise

MIMO choreography Megan Beckwith & Seung Hi Lee, soundscape Jacques Soddell. BUG choreography Megan Beckwith, sonic design Jacques Soddell. Old Fire Station Bendigo December 21-22.
THREE minus H: Iteration #5. L-ystems based video & sound nstallation with Fran Soddell, part of Sculpture in the Park, White Hills Boranical Gardens Bendigo Nov 11
Andante Georgina Duckett (visual artist) and Jacques Soddell (sound artist) reconfigure two ruined pianos. 12-30 june Allans Walk Artist Run Space.
Bendigo Framed Live interactive video performance plus screenings of eruntics and shhh! at this local film festival organised by bendigo film society. LaTrobe Visual Arts Centre. Bendigo. may 26 & 27
Soundsitesmulti media project for High School students constructed by: Jude Anderson & Jacques Soddell in conjunction with Ballarat Art Gallery and the Ballarat Learning Exchange. May 8 & 11.
3X3 = 6 degrees of separation. curated by tara gilbee. works by central victorian artists, DVAA, frog hollow centre for the arts, darwin. 2-19 may. with andrew goodman, catherine ryan, punctum, jacques soddell, simon howard & tara gilbee. My contribution was a video & sound piece called spaces
Allan's Walk Talks. heide MOMA, melbourne. 15 april. artists from allan's walk, a bendigo artist-run initiative, discuss their various art disciplines and the challenges of sustaining an art practice within a regional context. my talk was titled Regional Soundings.
Shrine On! you crazy diamond. group show curated by Poloni & Borrelle. platform gallery. flinders st station, melbourne april 2- may 4. An exhibition of investigations into the modern shrine, articulated loosely around the idea of unusual wealth in unusual places. With anna-maria o'keeffe, kit wise, amanda schembri, louise harper, matthew shannon, louise hubbard, warren fithie, jacques soddell, ruth johnstone, spiros panigirakis, rachel hooper, din heagney, anita king, luke sinclair & andrew seward. My contribution was a 2 screen video installation with sound called undercurrents
fungus! multimedia installation with fran soddell based on fungal growth, with references to nuclear issues, stanisław lem and john cage. allans walk artist run space, bendigo, march. more info
shackinteractive video/sound installation for punctum production. bendigo feb 23-24, trentham mar 3, eaglehawk mar 17, sutton grange mar 24, elmore mar 31, castlemaine state festival april 7
insect music for megan beckwith’s dance/animation installation allans walk artist run space, bendigo, feb 23
undue noise  curator experimental music & video concert series. performed solo. Bendigo (20/5, 17/8, 6/10) & Castlemaine (9/6 and 17/11) and Make It Up Club at Bar Open, Brunswick St Fitzroy (4/12)

shhh!... 3 screen installation by jacques soddell and maree mclachlan. part of s.edition at allan’s walk. more info
s.edition curator 2 weeks of installations at allan’s walk
shed film - animation by paul fletcher, sound by jacques soddell. originally made for the shed. selected for st kilda film festival may 2006. "The short movie (by Paul Fletcher) takes elements of the Australian landscape (a shed, a fence, a tractor, a sunset) and abstracts them into a shifting collage of light and colour underscored by a soundscape that I can only describe as like the recording of electrical and chemical reactions in the brain." Paul Monaghan - Realtime
bodywealth - dance/video work by megan beckwith, music by jacques soddell, produced by punctum inc, outdoor stage, civic park, bendigo march 24
empirical soundings - surround sound installation by 10 commonwealth sound artists. march 24-26,. bendigo town hall. curated by jacques soddell (commonwealth games cultural festival) more info
wavelength - experimental film and sound by jacques soddell. screened at e-scape (march 21-22, campbell theatrette, bendigo)(commonwealth games cultural festival). slowly evolving processed images and sound.
tent city - 5 week fourcast residency at eaglehawk dahlia and arts festival (feb 14-mar 19). produced video and sound installations.
bone idol - choreography/animation by megan beckwith, music by jacques soddell, february, allan's walk artist run space, bendigo.
undue noise - curator experimental music concert series. Also performed solo, and in Brakhage
e-scape - curator (with paul fletcher) sound and films march 21-22 (commonwealth games cultural festival)

414 - 4 channel sound work by jacques & fran soddell presented at third iteration conference on generative art. monash uni. dec 2
cajid tour performed with thembi soddell, lawrence english, bruce mowson and camilla hannan, bus gallery, melbourne, august 19
the piano room . video and sound installation at allan's walk artist run space, may 11-14, as part of remembrance of things past. reviewed in realtime
remembrance of things past - curated 4 weeks of installations by local sound/video artists. allan's walk artist run space, may-june. reviewed in realtime
shed - sound/installation for punctum production, directed by jude anderson, castlemaine state festival, may 9,. also in october 2005: national gallery of victoria (1 week) and single performances in dunolly, trentham, sutton grange, elmore and shepparton. "While the sound by Jacques Soddell and lighting design and installation by Chris Harris were especially strong, the director, writers and performers were equally so." Paul Monaghan, Realtime
this fountain operates without water - fourcast residency at tute's cottage during castlemaine state festival. april 1-10, 2005
art house - installation of fungal and plant music (with fran soddell) at bendigo conservatory (with sculptors yvonne george, marianne midelburg and trefor prest) 24-31 march,. paper presented on this installation at australasian computer music association conference in brisbane in june.
singing bridges - vibrations : variations. jodi rose's double cd of her bridge sounds from around the world and other peoples remixes, contains "accosted people walking" a remix track by jacques soddell. "The second disc of remixes of these sounds features some incredible, though initially almost inaudible work from Francisco Lopez, and jangly dramatic drone work from Jacques Soddell amongst some other more traditionally structured electro responses." - Bob Baker Fish Cyclic Defrost #11
undue noise - curator experimental music concert series. also performed solo on some evenings

commonwealth youth games .- composed 6 one-minute soundscapes for opening ceremony. tom flood sports centre, bendigo 30 nov
cyborpyg - music for dance/video installation by megan beckwith. for her master's thesis. victorian college of the arts, august 4-6,; also at playhouse theatre, victorian arts centre, melbourne, october 31,. melbourne fringe festival, north melbourne town hall. september 2005 (six performances).
seven suitcases - "case study" (with robbie buckman, tamara marwood, matt byrne) - allan's walk contribution to this group exhibition of suitcases from artist run spaces. allan's walk artist run space, bendigo may 22-29,; also meeting place, 21-24 october, horsham (regional arts australia national conference)
the last retort - experimental film by paul fletcher based on my gas connection "cylinder" soundscape. first screened at shepparton production of the gas connection in march
undue noise - curator experimental music concert series. also performed solo on some evenings
public fourcast - month-long fourcast residency at dudley house, bendigo ending with. 6 performances. (february)

the gas connection directed by jude anderson, soundscape and "cylinder" installation by jacques soddell. gasworks theatre, port melbourne, 16 performances (march 2003), bendigo gasworks, 4 performances (april 2003), shepparton festival, 4 performances, furphy's foundry (march 2004)
prepared performances cdr of material from live performances in 2003 and conjectural module#3 installation (nov 2002)
nosferatu soundtrack to murnau silent classic. with kurt weibgen and justin bull. bendigo film society, bendigo library theatrette, june 12
undue noise - curator experimental music concert series. also performed solo on and in JSDL and Brakhage

conjectural module #3 (regional module) - the first fourcast residency was at tower studio, queens college, university of melbourne. nov 6-29, 2002. public performance thursday 28th nov 2002.
dearth choreography by megan beckwith, music: 8 1/2 by jacques soddell, music of the mycelium by fran and jacques soddell. melbourne fringe festival opening, north melbourne town hall (alleyway) 2002
music of the mycelium jacques and fran soddell. generating music from l-systems models of fungal growth. music and data cdr released april 2002.
brakhage live performance with justin bull at dance on a dead orchard, harcourt, april 27 2002
marks by tomasz talaj, sounds by jacques soddell installationat allan's walk artist run space, bendigo march 2-28 2002. mini cdr released march 2002
undue noise curator experimental music concert series. also performed solo on 2 occasions
 

golden square performance/installation conceived and directed by jude anderson, soundscapes by jacques soddell, national trust building, view st, bendigo, 2-3 nov 2001 (5 performances, part of heart of gold fiesta festival, bendigo). mini cdr released march 2002
brakhage - live performances (jacques soddell & justin bull) at pink palace warehouse (northcote), ruckers (northcote) and 3ccc-fm (bendigo)live to air
films by stan brakhage- prepared improvisations with justin bull to silent experimental films by stan brakhage. bendigo film society, April 19 2001
music from microbes - installation (with fran soddell) march 2 3- april 1, 2001 castlemaine fringe festival
 

autonomousAudio - web based sound installation with fran soddell, at artspace in sydney (october 2000) still on web. story on abc science website couple make music with fungus (10 nov, 2000)
incompatible musics - live performance at salon pretentious, maiden gully (november 2000)
art of listening first live performance at sound exhibition at allan's walk artist run space, bendigo (30 june- 1 july 2000)
neon fog - jacques soddell cdr released mid-2000 "lovely microscopic, organic electronics (no surprise that jacques is a microbiologist). reminds me a bit of Dorobo's more ambient music." Shannon O'Neill, Furthermore, 2MBS (Sydney)

may 1999 cdr of recent soundworks by jacques soddell cdr released may 1999
loopism - now and then jacques soddell cdr released december 1998 includes new pieces and remixed older work from the mid-1980s