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thembi soddell: sound artist / electroacoustic composer
PERFORMANCE
"The real highlight was the psychological terror induced by Thembi Soddell's performance. With the lights turned off and a request for quiet (even the rattling fridges were silenced), Soddell, hidden from view, created an amazingly evocative soundscape of unspecified but terrifying dread coming towards us slowly from a distance. An intensifying rumble augmented by half-human, half-animal shrieks reaches its zenith and then sucks back down, vacuum-like, to a ringing almost-silence, only to begin again. With a fine balance between augmented field recording and machine noise Soddell perfectly controls this exhilarating journey into her unconscious—or is it our own?"
Gail Priest - RealTime Arts Magazine
Issue #103 June-July 2011 pg. 40
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
2012
Now Now Festival, Sydney, Jan 18-22
PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES
2011
September: Punctum Presents Undue Noise
@ICU Castlemaine
Thursday 25 August
26th May: High Reflections @ Red Rattler, Sydney
(review above)
2009
2009 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
Duo with Anthea Caddy
6/12: Artist Talk and Performance @ Y galeriis, Tartu, Estonia
4/12: Hellemanni Tornigalerii, Tallinn, Estonia
3/12: Ptarmigen, Helsinki, Finland
2/12: The Poetic Club, Copenhagen, Denmark
22/11: Café Oto, London, Uk
18/11: ((VIBRA)) Sound Art Concert Series at OCCC, Valencia, Spain
16/11: La Société de Curiosités, Paris, France
15/11: Interface @ Data, Marseille, France
13/11: La Bascule, Rennes, France
11/11: Cave 12, Geneva, Switzerland
9/11: Powiekszenie, Warsaw, Poland
8/11: Thembi Solo/Anthes duo with Clare Cooper, Powiekszenie, Warsaw, Poland
1/11: AZ Conni, Dresden, Germany
30/10: Biegungen Festival @ Ausland, Berlin, Germany
28/10: Live Soundtrack to Nosferatu @ CK Agora, Wroclaw, Poland
ARTEFACT AUSTRALIAN TOUR
With Camilla Hannan and Eamon Sprod
The Exeter, Adelaide. 9pm. Free.
Artist Workshop, Watch This Space, Alice Springs.
Live Sound Performance in the open air. Watch This Space, Alice Springs.
Live Sound Performance. Happy Yess, Darwin.
Live Sound Performance. Club Zho, Perth.
'New Music Up Late' ABC Classic FM Live Broadcast. ABC Studios Perth. 8:30pm. Click here for Podcast of this performance.
Joint live performance with Camilla Hannan and Eamon Sprod. Stutter @ Horse Bazaar, Melbourne.
Undue Noise @ Old Fire Station, Bendigo.
More info at: http://cajid.com/artefact.html
Stutter @ Horse Bazaar, Melbourne
Wednesday 19th September
Duo with Anthea Caddy
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 10 AUSTRALIA
Castlemaine 5th July
Melbourne 10th July
Cairns 12th July
Duo with Anthea Caddy
Launch for Joe Talia and James Rushford's CD @ Old Bar
21st May
Duo with Anthea Caddy
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2008
November
Now Now Festival Launch, Serial Space, Sydney
Duo with Anthea Caddy
Cinematheque @ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Duo with Camilla Hannan - Live soundtrack to Moulin Rouge
July
Immersion @ Planetarium, Melbourne (part of Liquid Architecture 9)
5.1 surround sound concert presentation of work composed with Anthea Caddy
April
MIBEM closing party @ Horse Bizarre
Quartete with Xavier Nichols, Max Kohane and Jerome Noetinger
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2007
December
Melbourne Women's Internation Jazz Festival @ La Mama, Melbourne
Duo with Joe Talia (drumkit)
Maximum Arousal Series @ Toff in Town, Melbourne
Duo with Joe Talia (drumkit)
November
Tote, Melbourne
Duo with Joe Talia (drumkit)
Undue Noise @ ICU, Castlemaine
Duo with Joe Talia (drumkit)
October
MIUC Fringe Festival @ Bar Open, Melbourne
Duo with Joe Talia (drumkit)
September
Empress Hotel, Melbourne
Duo with Joe Talia
May
MIUC @ Bar Open, Melbourne
Trio with Anthea Caddy (cello) & Joe Talia (drumkit)
April
ILAND CD LAUNCH @ Westspace, Melbourne
Duo with Anthea Caddy (cello)
March
MIUC @ Bar Open, Melbourne
Duo with Jim Denley (saxophone)
January
Now Now Festival of Spontaneous Music, Sydney
Duo with Tony Buck (drums)
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2006
October - December : European tour of duo Anthea Caddy
19th Oct: Palermo, Sicily
25th Oct: Frankfurt, Germany
27th Oct: Hörbar - Hamburg, Germany
28th Oct: AZ Conni - Dresden, Germany
29th Oct: Ausland - Berlin, Germany
8th Nov: Instants Chavirés - Paris, France
15th Nov: Litteraturhaus - Copenhagen, Denmark
23rd Nov: La Malterie - Lille, France
25th Nov: Studio Amann - Vienna, Austria
29th Nov: Passos Manuel - Lisbon, Portugal
30th Nov: Monte Olivete - Oporto, Portugal
2nd Dec: WIM - Zurich, Switzerland
3rd Dec: Dachstock - Bern, Switzerland
13th Dec: Worm - Rotterdam, Netherlands
15th Dec: alula ton serien - Leipzig, Germany
August
Liquid Architecture - Auckland, NZ
NOW now series 'if you like improvised music we like you' Sydney
Duo with Anthea Caddy
February
Horse Bazaar, Melbourne
Duo with Anthea Caddy on cello
Ethel Osbourne Hall, RMIT, Melbourne
Trio with Anthony Pateras and James Wilkinson
Undue Noise Festival, Bendigo
Duo with Anthea Caddy on cello
the NOW now festival of spontaneous music
Debut performance with Anthea Caddy on cello
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CAJID MEDIA AUSTRALIAN TOUR AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2005
with Lawrence English, Camilla Hannan, and Bruce Mowson
fri aug 12 - 1/4_inch, Wollongong
sat aug 13 - Armidale Club, Armidale
sun aug 14 - Impermanent Audio @ Frequency Lab, Sydney
fri aug 19 - Bus Gallery, Melbourne
sat aug 20 - Basement Theatre, Wagga Wagga
sun aug 21 - Dudley House, Bendigo
fri sept 2 - Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns
sat sep 3 - Fabrique, Brisbane Powerhous, Brisbane
sun sep 4 - Office of Arts and Leisure Affairs, Toowoomba
Articulating Space @ Ingnifuge
Liquid Architecture Sydney @ Performance Space
with Erik La Casa + Jean Luc Guionnet (France), Social Interiors, and Clare Cooper + Inge Olmheim.
Sound Art, Canberra @ Foreshore Space (in collaboration with Canberra Contemporary Art Space)
What is Music? 2005
Horti Hall, Melbourne.
Absence and Presence - group performance with Anthea Caddy (Cello), Philip Samartzis (Electronics), Dave Brown (Guitar), Andrew Barrie (Drums) and Thembi Soddell (Environments)
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2004
Devoid Magazine Launch
Bourgie Bar, Melbourne.
Online women in arts magazine http://www.de-void.com
Immersion
Westspace, Melbourne.
With Ph2
Impermanent Audio
Project Space, Melbourne
with Toshimaru Nakamura (Japan) and Brett Larner (USA)
Peter Blamey and Philip Samartzis
Impermanent Audio
Performance space, Sydney
with Toshimaru Nakamura and Brett Larner, Pimmon, Jim Denley and Anthony Guerra
Undue Noise
Old Fire Station, Bendigo
Small Black Box
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
What is Music? Festival
Ding Dong Lounge, Melbounre
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pre-2004
Articulating Space
Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
Girls Boys Machines
Planet cafe, Melbourne
Media Arts Graduate show
Undue Noise
old fire station, bendigo
Good Morning Captain, melbounre
Oven-garde
Builders Arms, Melbourne
Liquid Architecture 2
Kaleide Theatre, Melbourne
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