She does work for CD, gallery installation, and live performance, having been involved in many of Australia's major sound festivals, such as What is Music?, Liquid Architecture and The Now Now Festival of Spontaneous Music. She has toured Europe as part of a collaborative duo with cellist, Anthea Caddy. She is a graduate with honours in sound art from RMIT's Fine Art Department. She also assists in running the Australian experimental music label, Cajid Media.
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"Thembi Soddell is one of many intriguing Australian composers and draws heavily from the acousmatic principles of Francisco Lopez . Her performances have ocasionally found her quietly sitting within the audience, which was mostly unaware that the shy girl in the corner was actually responsible for the torrents of noise punctuated by abrupt silences. Like most of Lopez's productions, Soddell culls her source material from field recordings of rain and wind, densely layered into heavy masses of low-end hiss. But where Lopez suspends time and space, Soddell's Intimacy is a quick 25 minutes jaunt that energetically builds a dynamic sequence of theatrical bursts for these environmental sounds before terminating in silence." Intimacy CD review by Jim Haynes, Outer Limits, The Wire, Dec 2004.
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"The extremes make this a difficult listen you have to be on your toes for the changes but well worth the contemplation and focus required." Intimacy CD review by Jeremy Keens ampersand notes 2004_6
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"It’s a strange jarring and uncomfortable world, then again so are the actions and emotions they depict. Soddell seems to favor the elements; the sounds of wind and rain to flesh out her minimal though emotionally volatile landscape and there’s no denying the dark feel of this complex and disquieting work." Intimacy CD review by Bob Baker Fish Jan 2005 at http://www.cyclicdefrost.com
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