Anthea Caddy
Australian Cellist living in Berlin and Melbourne
Australian Cellist living in Berlin and Melbourne
Schatten
Recorded in Vienna during Winter on a snowy night, Berlin-based musicians Magda Mayas & Anthea Caddy present on "Schatten" a dense and piercing improvisational statement. Focusing mainly on texture and structure,but also the percussive possibilities of their instruments, both artists display a continuum of immense creativity, pushing their instruments to higher limits and even beyond recognition with each new aural event surpassing the previous one. Magda Mayas explores both the outside as well …
Thread
Thread, realized between Berlin in 2008 and 2009, brings together three like-minded experimentalists - Annette Krebs, Magda Mayas, and Anthea Caddy - with backgrounds in duo collaboration but fresh as a trio. Krebs’ prepared guitar, tapes, and mixing desk act as both generator and disruptor, her playful use of vocal fragments and sampled sounds adding surreal charge. Mayas’ piano - a hybrid of acoustic and prepared techniques - delivers hammered harmonics, inside-string tremors, and pulses of su…