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natasha anderson
anthea caddy
phillip pietruschka
thembi soddell

bruce mowson
lawrence english
camilla hannan
NATASHA ANDERSON

Natasha Anderson is a Melbourne musician who combines contrabass and garklein recorders with electronics to create works which constantly shift between dialectic extremes; those of frequency, the digital and the bodily and the  
processed and the instrumental. Deconstructed woodwind articulations merge with gestures that move quickly from real-time processing to the acoustic, dynamically extending the instrumental language and generating multiple and conflicting points of focus. Ultimately the source of these sounds, images and gestures, whether electronic, instrumental or bodily, become tangled and confused.

Natasha has performed multimedia, improvised and classical contemporary music throughout Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe. Recent performances include the Festival de Musiques Innovatrices, St Etienne [2006], the Skopje Summer Festival, Macedonia [2006], ?a?nia Centre of Contemporary Art, Gdansk [2006], Crime, Lille [2006], Galleria Zedosbois, Lisbon [2006], Cave 12, Geneva [2006], the Now Now, Sydney [2006], the OFF Film Festival, Brisbane [2006], the Melbourne International Arts Festival [2006, 2005, 2002, 1998], the Pompidou Centre, Paris [2004], and What is Music, Melbourne [2004-2005]. Regular collaborators include Anthony Pateras, Robin Fox, Amanda Stewart, Louise Curham, Annette Krebs and Twitch, of which she is a founding member.

contact: tash_r_anderson[at]hotmail.com

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ANTHEA CADDY

Anthea Caddy is an Australian cellist who applies a distinctive and idiosyncratic set of techniques to her instrument. Exploiting the cello’s textural,
spatial and dynamic capabilities she draws reference points from electro-acoustic and contemporary composition to inform her performance. Interested in the play between electronic and acoustic sound, she seeks to consolidate both the conceptual and practical aspects of these two media, articulating techniques and concepts indigenous to digital composition in her performances and recordings.

Anthea’s unique sound has resulted in collaborative contributions to a number of projects in a diversity of contexts. She regularly collaborates with sound artists Thembi Soddell and Philip Samartzis resulting in the duo release of ‘Iland’ with Soddell and as part of the ensemble of ‘Absence and Presence’ with Samartzis released on ‘Unheard Spaces’. She has done numerous collaborations in media based projects for video installation, dance, live sound design/score for theatre, film and video. As a curator she has co-curated for Liquid Architecture Festival in Melbourne and for the video group DotMov. As a performer she is a recognised member of the Australian improvised and sound art scene touring nationally and internationally. Anthea has a degree in Media Arts with honours specialising in Sound from RMIT University, Melbourne.


contact: antheacaddy [at] yahoo.com.au
web: http://cajid.com/iland

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PHILLIP PIETRUSCHKA

A composer from Melbourne, Australia. He studied electro-acoustic composition at RMIT, attaining Honours in 2003. Pietruschka's music takes cues from elements of electro-acoustic and avant-garde classical music. Composing with studio production techniques inspired by Pierre Henry, Luigi Nono and Ennio Morricone, he regularly works with some of Melbourne's finest improvising musicians to weave unique sonic tapestries. Pietruschka's music has frequently appeared as soundtracks to video and installation work by artists including Cassandra Tytler, Geoff Robinson, and Shaun Yue. Selected electro-acoustic presentations include Liquid Architecture Festival of Sound Arts, DeScore 04 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Gertrude St Contemporary Art Spaces, Sydney Opera House Art Gallery on behalf of DLux Media Arts and Variable Resistance at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Pietruschka recently completed a tour of Canada as part of a collaborative sound art project called Telephone. He is presently touring Australia with the Back to Back Theatre company as the Audio Operator.

contact: phillip_pietruschka [at] yahoo.com.au

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THEMBI SODDELL

Thembi Soddell is a Sound Artist from Melbourne, Australia. Her work focuses on the abstract and textural nature of sound, intricately sculpting field recordings and generated sounds into dark,

suggestive sonic landscapes. From sounds on the threshold of perception to rupturing bursts of noise, her particular focus on dynamics aims to suggest narrative through generating anticipation and suspense. The result is an evocative and tense sonic journey. She does work for CD, gallery installation, and live performance. In 2005 she completed her honours year in sound at RMIT. Her full CV can be found at http://cajid.com/thembi

contact: thembi [at] cajid.com

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BRUCE MOWSON

Bruce Mowson is a media artist from Melbourne. Since 1998 he has performed and exhibited sound and video works both locally and nationally, as well as in the Variable Resistance program at the San Francisco Museum

of Modern Art. He is a co-director of the Liquid Architecture sound festival. His "Static Tones" project explores perception through static or near static time-based media presentations. In this project, he is interested in how this particular combination of time, space and mass can create a states of feeling. Other works include a sound and arhitecture work called Saturation, produced with Pia Ednie-Brown and commissioned for the experimenta House of Tomorrow.

contact: brucemowson [at] optusnet.com.au

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LAWRENCE ENGLISH

Lawrence English (Bris) is a writer, composer and media artist. Working across a broad range of art forms, English's work is eclectic and characterises a long-term exploration of various themes, including

audio/visual environments. London's Time Out referred to his output as 'ambient twisted soundscapes and challenging sonic scree', andU.S. sound journal, Signal To Noise described English's work as 'extraordinarily gorgeous modern music concréte'. He is also involved in staging sound events such as fabrique, syncretism, liquid architecture and what is music? and features in 'the anti-charts" segment on Triple J.

contact: lawrence [at] room40.org

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CAMILLA HANNAN

Camilla Hannan (Bris) is a sound designer, composer, installation artist and performer. She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally, most recently at Liquid

Architecture 6. Camilla specializes in multi channel installations investigating ideas of sound, light and space. She has spent the last few years recording factory sites in and about Melbourne, forming the central content of her work, and culminating into her latest release ‘More Songs About Factories’.

web: http://www.camillahannan.com
contact: millyhannan [at] yahoo.com

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