Anthea Caddy and Thembi Soddell

Bringing together the textural and dynamic capabilities of the cello, with an extensive palate of sampled and abstracted found sounds, this collaboration between Australian sound artists Anthea Caddy and Thembi Soddell generates a provocative and tense sonic world. Since the release of their debut album, Iland (Cajid 007CD) in October 2006, the duo have extensively toured both Australia and Europe, including performances at the Hoerkunstfestival, Germany, Instants Chavirés, Paris, and the Now Now Festival, Sydney.

"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. By alternating movement and stasis, Caddy and Soddell manage to express an otherwise undefinable sense of inner connection with something that resembles the various phases of a nightmare, but one that - one way or another - has an happy ending." Touching Extremes, Massimo Ricci - February 2007

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ANTHEA CADDY

Anthea Caddy (Melbourne, Australia) is a media artist and cellist. Her practice centres on the relationship between recording, spatialisation, and the instrument. Exploring the cello’s textural, spatial and dynamic capabilities, she draws reference points from electro-acoustic music and sound art.

After completing an honours degree in Media Arts at RMIT University, she has become an active member of the international sound art community. Caddy has worked in collaboration with sound artists Thembi Soddell (Iland, 2006), Philip Samartzis (Unheard Spaces, 2006), and Eamon Sprod (Immersion Festival, 2004). She has ongoing collaborations with tubist Robin Hayward and sound artist Eric La Casa (Bludenzer Festival, Austria, 2007), pianist Magda Mayas (Princeton University, Princeton and Goethe Institute, Boston, 2009) and with electro acoustic guitarist Annette Krebs (Diapason Sound Art Gallery, New York, 2009)

She has performed internationally with notable artists and musicians including Christian Wolff (Dartmouth University, Dartmouth, USA, 2007), Tony Conrad (Tesla Centre of Media Arts, Berlin, 2007), Chris Abrahams, Domenico Sciajno and Rasmus. B. Lunding (Aarhus University, Denmark, 2006). She has toured extensively internationally and nationally performing in various festivals and series including the Moers festival (2008), Bludenzer Tage (2007), Liquid Architecture (2004/5), Geothe Institute (Boston, 2009), The Stone (New York, 2009), Leipzig Museum of Modern Art (2006) and visited institutions such as Aarhus Universtity, Denmark, Conservatorio “A. Scontrino”, Sicily and Princeton and Dartmouth Universities in the USA (2008/ 2009).

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THEMBI SODDELL

Thembi Soddell is a sound artist from Melbourne, Australia. Her volatile sonic worlds morph, shift, rupture and dis-rupture into filmic atmospheres with a distinctly disquieting edge. Contorted into unreal environments and luscious masses of sonic textures, her sound palate sources field recordings, instruments and electronics to be suggestive but often unidentifiable.

She is a graduate with honours in sound art from RMIT University, and over the past 9 years she has been working within both the national and international sound art communities. She does work for CD, gallery installation and live performance, and works regularly in a collaborative duo with cellist, Anthea Caddy. She also assists in curating for Australian experimental music label, Cajid Media.

Her full CV can be viewed at:

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	Bringing together the textural and dynamic capabilities of the cello, with an extensive palate of sampled and abstracted found sounds, this collaboration between Australian sound artists Anthea Caddy and Thembi Soddell generates a provocative and tense sonic world. Since the release of their debut album, Iland (Cajid 007CD) in October 2006, the duo have extensively toured both Australia and Europe, including performances at the Hoerkunstfestival, Germany, Instants Chavirés, Paris, and the Now Now Festival, Sydney. "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. By alternating movement and stasis, Caddy and Soddell manage to express an otherwise undefinable sense of inner connection with something that resembles the various phases of a nightmare, but one that - one way or another - has an happy ending." Touching Extremes, Massimo Ricci - February 2007 +++++++ ANTHEA CADDY Anthea Caddy (Melbourne, Australia) is a media artist and cellist. Her practice centres on the relationship between recording, spatialisation, and the instrument. Exploring the cello’s textural, spatial and dynamic capabilities, she draws reference points from electro-acoustic music and sound art. After completing an honours degree in Media Arts at RMIT University, she has become an active member of the international sound art community. Caddy has worked in collaboration with sound artists Thembi Soddell (Iland, 2006), Philip Samartzis (Unheard Spaces, 2006), and Eamon Sprod (Immersion Festival, 2004). She has ongoing collaborations with tubist Robin Hayward and sound artist Eric La Casa (Bludenzer Festival, Austria, 2007), pianist Magda Mayas (Princeton University, Princeton and Goethe Institute, Boston, 2009) and with electro acoustic guitarist Annette Krebs (Diapason Sound Art Gallery, New York, 2009) She has performed internationally with notable artists and musicians including Christian Wolff (Dartmouth University, Dartmouth, USA, 2007), Tony Conrad (Tesla Centre of Media Arts, Berlin, 2007), Chris Abrahams, Domenico Sciajno and Rasmus. B. Lunding (Aarhus University, Denmark, 2006). She has toured extensively internationally and nationally performing in various festivals and series including the Moers festival (2008), Bludenzer Tage (2007), Liquid Architecture (2004/5), Geothe Institute (Boston, 2009), The Stone (New York, 2009), Leipzig Museum of Modern Art (2006) and visited institutions such as Aarhus Universtity, Denmark, Conservatorio “A. Scontrino”, Sicily and Princeton and Dartmouth Universities in the USA (2008/ 2009). +++++++ THEMBI SODDELL Thembi Soddell is a sound artist from Melbourne, Australia. Her volatile sonic worlds morph, shift, rupture and dis-rupture into filmic atmospheres with a distinctly disquieting edge. Contorted into unreal environments and luscious masses of sonic textures, her sound palate sources field recordings, instruments and electronics to be suggestive but often unidentifiable. She is a graduate with honours in sound art from RMIT University, and over the past 9 years she has been working within both the national and international sound art communities. She does work for CD, gallery installation and live performance, and works regularly in a collaborative duo with cellist, Anthea Caddy. She also assists in curating for Australian experimental music label, Cajid Media. Her full CV can be viewed at:
		http://cajid.com/thembi

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