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sofie

dreamers unite!

About Me


Composer, laptop jockey, music producer, borderline sound fanatic, inventor of SoundThoughts, experimental instrument builder, pure data paduan, crusader for made up words, metaphysical researcher, ideas girl.

I am also a podcaster, go listen to my show, Chasing the Tangent at http://straightup.com.au/page?n=1070

Sofie's Blog
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My Interests

art that makes a statement in an innovative way, music that makes plants grow and feet move, food that makes your body sing, wine that expresses otherworldy characteristics, long walks through nature, my cats, learning about things that are mysterious to me like mathematics, philosophy and electronics, and of course...dreaming

I'd like to meet:

.........."art is everything you don't have to do" Brian Eno......

Music:

experimental, dub, orchestral, hybrid, ambient, techno, electro, jazz. Listening to: Colleen, Frank Bretschneider, Fenton, Alog

Movies:

By Director: David Lynch, Richard Linklater, Rose Troche, Miranda July, Jim Jarmusch, Stanley Kubrick, Movies I loved recently: Vivre Sa Vie, Dead Man, You and Me and Everyone we know, A Scanner Darkly, Howls Moving Castle, Man with a Movie Camera. just watched: Science of Sleep - Michel Gondry and Children of Men - Alfonso Cuaron

Television:

TV sucks

Books:

Reading: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, James Lovelock, A thousand plateaux's - Deleuze and Guattari

My Blog

Check out this event: Album Launch 26th June

I play synths in this band, Tracy rocks!Hosted By: Tracy Redhead When: 26 Jun 2008, 08:00 PMWhere: Supper Club - SydneyLevel 1, 134 Oxford StDarlinghurst, New South Wales|76 AustraliaDescription:Tracy...
Posted by sofie on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:12:00 PST

Check out this event: Info Session with THEO PARRISH

Hosted By: Red Bull Music Academy and CDR When: 02 Apr 2008, 07:00 PMWhere: HermannsCorner City Road and Butlin AvenueSydney University, New South Wales|76 AustraliaDescription:Red Bull Music Academy ...
Posted by sofie on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:46:00 PST

Beats Bleeps n Bass Stage - St Jeromes Melb

ANNOUNCING THE RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY 'BEATS, BLEEPS N BASS' STAGE AT MELBOURNE'S ST JEROMES LANEWAY FESTIVAL. Red Bull Music Academy Radio add a whole new dimension to this year's St Jerome's Laneway...
Posted by sofie on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:13:00 PST

recapping last months mayhem

The last few weeks have been pretty amazing. Nothing short of brilliant. Let me share with you what's going on in Sofie-land.I have been granted Australia Council funding to create Shimmer 2, a new mu...
Posted by sofie on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:28:00 PST

A Class of It’s Own, Cologne 2007 part 1

We arrived in Cologne on Sunday 15th August, a motley crew of worldly individuals hailing from Australia, America, Russia, Spain, New Zealand and England. Each person a producer in their own right, a ...
Posted by sofie on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:50:00 PST

...defined by moments in time

written for redbullmusicacademy.comI am sitting in the booking office at Amsterdam Centraal to book my train ticket to Cologne, and so far, everything this morning has been tinted with inspiration, an...
Posted by sofie on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:29:00 PST

Seductive & repulsive memes & Five reasons why I blog

The Velcro City Tourist Board (situated in the Disunited Kingdom no less!), has tagged me, and, like some kind of ultra seductive and sophisticated social meme, I have been lured into writing this pos...
Posted by sofie on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:59:00 PST

John Howard Scare Tactics

I have been following the latest step backwards John Howard is taking on behalf of the Australian people. Aboriginal people in outback communities are being besieged by the army and police, alcohol ba...
Posted by sofie on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:31:00 PST

Four Eyed Monsters

Web 2.0, self distribution, sticking it to the man, making art and supporting art are things I feel strongly about. I just watched this self-made, self funded, self distributed film called "Four Eyed ...
Posted by sofie on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:31:00 PST

soldering circuits!

Dan and I have been madly building electronic components for my up and coming art exhibition. There is nothing like a little bit of practical application to help understand the fundamentals of a compl...
Posted by sofie on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:54:00 PST