Thembi Soddell

I use sound to meditate on perception, trauma, affect and invisible illness. Maker of sound art, installation and sound design. PhD survivor. They/them.

[Thembi Soddell @thembisoddell]

I'm calling for people with lived experience of complex trauma or madness to participate in a workshop series I'm running. We'll make sounds together for me to use to compose a piece for The Big Anxiety festival. You'll get $1200 for your work. More info: https://t.co/t2XWbNKlst

[Constellations @cnstll8ns]

"Abstract sound can reflect the complexity of feeling & affective knowledge that I can’t articulate through words." @thembisoddell in dialogue with Tina Stefanou, @xennha_, A Hanley & @sternjoelstern as a part of Unheard Relations @liq_arch. Listen/ read:
https://t.co/sr5547tL5S

[Liquid Architecture @liq_arch]

Now out on Disclaimer: newly commissioned audio paper, composer @thembisoddell discusses the ideas behind their 2018 album Love Songs. https://t.co/FM72UKkesI

[Thembi Soddell @thembisoddell]

I forgot I had a Twitter account

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"What good is your reality?"

[Decibel New Music @DecibelNewMusic]

Sound artist & electroacoustic composer Thembi Soddell (VIC) has created the piece ‘Let Go of Control’ for our 2 Minutes From Home series of new music commissions.
Watch the video and follow the score: https://t.co/iwe1jlZYaM

#musicscore #graphicnotation #2mfh @thembisoddell

[Thembi Soddell @thembisoddell]

@jobo11jobo @IndigoDaya You've kind of got me wanting to just frame mine now and hang them around the house. I've always found interesting/disturbing is how pretty they all look. I love the bright blue capsules of what I think was Zyprexa.

[Thembi Soddell @thembisoddell]

@IndigoDaya The (very negative) effects of that particular concoction was also what inspired me to do my whole PhD by the way.

[Thembi Soddell @thembisoddell]

@IndigoDaya I have a whole bunch of old pills I've not thrown out because I've always wanted to do *something* with them. Not sure what. It's a wild concoction.

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@IndigoDaya @RaiWaddingham I feel this!

[Thembi Soddell @thembisoddell]

@Chavezsayz I watched a documentary called 'I, Psychopath' awhile back and it was chilling in its insights around this, especially watching it play out in the relationship between the two people who were its main focus.

[brokeblack mountain @NayukaGorrie]

We need to get comfortable with the world looking completely different. We can't have business as usual because that requires black subjugation. It requires our dispossession. It requires our bodies in prison.

[Thembi Soddell @thembisoddell]

@IndigoDaya @madeleinesteel 2/2: "...overcoming systemic and structural problems, as if it were simply a matter of choice combined with willpower." Not in a mental health context but still applicable. https://t.co/n5cVKP4n8b

[Thembi Soddell @thembisoddell]

@IndigoDaya @madeleinesteel 1/2: Also, this quote from a post by Liquid Architecture sums it up well: "As the theorist and cultural critic, Robin James, reminds us, the discourse of resilience—like the atomising neoliberal project more broadly—often serves to make individuals feel responsible for...

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@IndigoDaya I was legit tempted to send you a burnt copy as a decorative item, but frankly I'm not that organised. Happy Birthday, though! Congratulations and I'm glad you exist!

[Tatiana Mac @TatianaTMac]

White feminism is one of the most powerful tools of white supremacy; it’s a softer branded version that’s harder to “prove” as it relies on the purity, innocence and tears of white women—a trope that white men benefit from protecting.

From the archives:
https://t.co/Gm7vaWYoLm

[Thembi Soddell @thembisoddell]

Great book to read of you'd like to understand more about the experiences of the Black community in the so-called United States, through a (as always problematic) mental health lens.
https://t.co/WacqueBPNa

[Thembi Soddell @thembisoddell]

@FionneOrlander @jk_rowling Just to be clear, none of this is fact.

[Missy Elliott @MissyElliott]

Yep...

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"None of us are free till we all are free"

[Billy Porter @theebillyporter]

This is my message to America. 👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿 #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter

https://t.co/fD6preZLvq