NEWS
MAY 2010
It has just been confirmed that Anthea and Thembi will be performing together at the SoundOut 2011 Festival of Free Improvisation and Experimental music in Canberra from January 29th-30th.
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Anthea has recently made some new recordings in an old soviet oil tank at the MoKs Centre for Art and Practice in the rural Estonian town of Mooste. This recording will be used as source material for the duo's next album, which they are currently working towards with a sight for completetion by the end of this year.
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APRIL 2010
Anthea and Thembi have just had a track Intimate Geometries released on the new CD compilation Magnetic Traces: A survey of French and Australian Sound Art. This compilation was put together by Eric La Casa (France) and Philip Samartzis (Australia) as a catalogue to the exhibition of the same name. This was first shown in Australia in July-August of 2009 and is looking to be shown in France sometime in 2011. The CD is released on Swarming Records. You can hear an mp3 of Intimate Geometries track on the listen page of this website.
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DECEMBER 2009
Anthea and Thembi have just completed a European tour, under the financial and artistic assistance of Arts Victoria and Punctum Inc. The tour included performances in Wroclaw, Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, Geneva, Rennes, Marseille, Paris, Valencia, London, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Tallinn, and Tartu. A review of their Paris show can be found here: http://etherreal.com/spip.php?article3440 (in French only).
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JULY 2009
Anthea and Thembi will be playing their last duo performance in Australia on the 19th of August at Stutter, before Anthea heads off to Europe again for an extended period of time. So if you're in Melbourne and interested in seeing them live anytime soon, this will be your last chance!!
They are also currently booking shows for a European tour in late-October/November so please get in touch if you are interested in having them perform.
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Magnetic Traces is a two-stage listening program curated by Eric La Casa and Philip Samartzis and presented in collaboration with West Space and Project Space/ Spare Room. The program is designed to highlight a diverse range of environmental sound practices emanating from Australia and France including field recording, bioacoustics, acoustic ecology, improvisation, electroacoustic composition and surround sound spatialisation. A surround sound piece by Anthea Caddy and Thembi Soddell will be featuring in the program at West Space.
PROJECT SPACE/SPARE ROOM
*Opening celebration Thursday 30 July 5.00-7.00pm*
Friday 31 July to Friday 21 August
Free Artist Floor Talk: Thursday 6 August, 12.00-1.00pm
WEST SPACE
Friday 31 July to Saturday 15 August
Free Artist Floor Talk: Friday 31 July, 12.30-1.30pm
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The duo have now completed their residency in Castlemaine to develop a new live performance work thanks to Punctum Inc's Seedpod Scholarship. The first performance was well received. A review can be found on Liquid Architecture blog:
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MAY 2009
Over the next few months the duo will be undertaking a seires of recordings in varying acoustic spaces to use as the basis of a new album.
Spaces already recorded in include the Reverberation Chamber in the Applied Physics Departement of RMIT University (pictured above), and the Hydro-Electric Dam Wall in Bogong, Victoria (pictured below). This album is being recorded under the financial assistance of Arts Victoria.
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APRIL 2009
The duo have just completed the first part of a 2 part residency at the ICU in Castlemaine as part of a Seedpod Scholarship from Punctum Inc to develop a new live performance work. http://www.punctum.com.au
The final work will be premiered at Liquid Architecture 10 in Castlemaine, Melbourne and Cairns.
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FEBRUARY 14 2007
Here's a hint of what reviewers have to say about the duos new album ILAND:
"The thirty minutes of "Iland" are highly impressive, in that the fusion of these different kinds of electroacoustic presage cracks our fake tranquillity, dragging us into an uncertain kind of awareness that doesn't admit the presence of danger but at the same time almost expects it with unpronounceable pleasure." Massimo Ricci - Touching Extremes
"The contrast of Soddell's simmering cinematic moods against Caddy's ferociously animalistic cello strikes is nothing short of jarring..." Lawrence English - The Wire
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OCTOBER 17 2006
The duos first album ILAND is now available for sale through Australian experimental music label cajid media.
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OCTOBER 3 2006
For anyone interested in a preview, the first track from the duo's new album ILAND is now available on the listen page.
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OCTOBER 1 2006
The duo's debut release, ILAND, is set for release by Australian label Cajid Media in just two weeks. This is timed to coincide with their first European tour, which kicks off on the 19th of October in Italy, spans across 3 months, and takes them to Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, France and The Netherlands. For more information check out the live page.
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