Love Songs (ROOM40, 2018) – CD + Book of Concrete Poetry
the results are striking and unexpected: the silence increases the perceived aggression or pathos of the noise, while the noise attenuates the blankness of the silence, filling it with its own void.”
Nathan Thomas – Fluid Radio, UK
To listen ~ and to read the liner notes ~ is to ask disturbing questions about our own relationships. How healthy are we really?“
Richard Allen – A Closer Listen
FURTHER INFO:
Full album streaming at self-titled mag
Audio-visual paper discussing the work published on Disclaimer
Feature by Soddell for XLR8R’s Real Talk column
Video clips by Vanessa Godden
“The listener’s body feels very present in the walls of sound that fill the space”
– Cat Hope, The Sensuality of Low Frequency Sound, in The Body in Sound, Music and Performance: Studies in Audio and Sonic Arts
(on Soddell’s live performance).
Held Down, Expanding (2018)
Adaptation of track one from Love Songs, Object (im)Permanence, into a multispeaker experience in-pitch black for one listener at a time. The work addresses the experiential impact of psychological abuse in intimate relationships, its medicalisation as mental illness, and creative processes for trauma integration.
If there are problems with the embedded player, you can watch this video on youtube.
Who Is Doing What to Whom? (Object Impermanence) (2022)
Redesign of Held Down, Expanding for improved disability access, visual impact, and automated user interface. In “Archives of Feeling: Sensation, Connection, Community”, RMIT Design Hub Gallery for The Big Anxiety Festival.
If there are problems with the embedded player, you can watch this video on youtube.
UnKnowing Madness (2022)
UnKnowing Madness is a composition and installation resulting from an online workshop series conceived by Thembi Soddell, inviting four participants (Amrita Dasvarma, Melis Layik, Kim Le and Hassaan Memon) with complex trauma into Soddell’s process of composing. 6:26 audio-visual documentation. Please use headphones to experience this work.
If there are any problems with the embedded player, you can also watch this video on youtube.
UnKnowing Madness website.
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