Thea Lucia Martin
(they/she)

I am a musician, teaching artist and writer/composer practising on Kaurna Land/Adelaide. My artistic practice is rooted in a commitment to the activation of individual and community agency, to uncover and construct sonic meaning through the processes of multiple creativities.

As a performing musician, I play violin actively in bands Any Young Mechanic (alt-folk), Cagefly (post-rock) and Twine (noise-rock). I write and perform songs under the name
short snarl: https://shortsnarl.bandcamp.com/.

I run the DIY record label caps lock records (https://www.instagram.com/capslock.adl)


As a teaching artist, I am Co-Director of Connecting the Dots in Music (www.connectingthedotsinmusic.com), whose work in community arts has been commissioned by Carnegie Hall (NYC), the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and a range of local schools, libraries and community centres. I have worked as an Artist in Residence, Program Director and Ensemble Director in public primary schools and at youth arts organisations across South Australia. I have co-facilitated workshops with visual arts, creative arts therapists, movement artists and sound artists. I facilitated the reading group On Listening through MUD (mudarts.org).

As a writer, I have self-published articles on creative agency in music education, am published in the book 'A Year of Deep Listening - 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros', written for Hobbledehoy Records editorial and guest-published for The Music.
Sophomore EP 'Self Noise' by short snarl
Contact me:

thea.studies
@gmail.com


Instagram: thea.lucia


Soundcloud:
thea-lucia



A Room of Her Own Workshops are a series of collaborative composition workshops that invite young people to create original music in a participatory, dialogic environment with teaching artists. The name was born from our pilot project centred around Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide-based composer Anne Cawrse's 2020 composition for string quartet of the same name, which in turn was inspired by Virginia Woolf's seminal text A Room of One's Own. Each A Room of Her Own workshop remains guided by the same principles of these 2 works, placing a focus on exploring the importance of developing mental and physical spaces for creativity for all.

Mission Statement
- To explore with artists and young people what it means to develop safe, welcoming creative spaces for them as individuals and in their communities.

- To invite young people to access and develop their own creativity through the collaborative composition environment.

- To immerse young people in the breadth of ideas being explored in the contemporary composition landscape.

- To dissolve the notion of 'master composer', reimagining composing as a creative process for all.

- To amplify the creative voices of living, local, femme composers.


When We Speak - October 4-6th 2022

Lisa Cheney's piece 'When We Speak' was the catalyst for this project, inviting participants to explore the possibilities of composing with electroacoustics, their speaking voices as musical material as well as live instrumentals. In collaboration with a team of teaching artists, performer/composer Hilary Kleinig and composer Lisa Cheney the young musicians explored the following questions through their collaborative music making:

What does it mean to create something personal?

How can we use collected sound materials to express our responses to the above questions?

How can we enhance the impact of words with music?

Where am I in this work? What has this creative process looked like for me as an individual, and for us as a group?


Echoes in the Ballroom (2022)

This single day workshop saw 26 musicians aged 8-17 create new music in response to the Carclew ballroom space. Participants explored site-specific composition, our personal relationships with sounds and the power of repetition to encounter ideas from a multitude of perspectives through the writings of Virginia Woolf, music of Anne Cawrse and the music of Canadian cellist Zoe Keating.


A Room of Her Own - A Creativity Workshop in Sound (2021)

Exploring the importance of developing mental and physical spaces for creativity is the foundation of this collaborative composition project. Together, 22 high school age musicians explored what it means to create with sound, connecting into a series of works in music and literature, with a primary focus on Adelaide composer, Anne Cawrse’s 2020 work for string quartet, A Room of Her Own and the inspiration for the composition, Virginia Woolf’s seminal essay A Room of One’s Own. Participants collaborated on their own compositions, working with creative tools and compositional ideas explored in Cawrse’s music and Woolf’s essay, with a particular focus on what it means to quote, share and borrow ideas when working in a dialogic artistic space. The student musicians and teaching artists navigated together what it means to be part of an entwined story; continuing, reimagining and developing a creative tradition, as well as the essential nature of providing accessible spaces for all, to support free connection with our own innate creativity.
A Room of Her Own Workshops
A Room of Her Own Workshops
caps lock records
workshop facilitation
'At Night the Whole World Hums' Archival Recording