Thea

    Lucia

Martin

I am a musician, teaching artist and writer/composer practising in Tarndanya/Adelaide. My artistic

practice is rooted in a commitment to uncovering, framing and creating entrypoints into artistic

experiences that allow individuals and communities to access their creative agency and construct sonic

meaning. I am interested in working in ways that are low-resource, flexible, tactile and intertextual.


Post Scores Project has been facilitated by Thea Martin since 2021 as workshops, installations and

exhibitions in schools, festivals and art spaces. Inspired by and in dialogue with American composer James

Tenney’s ‘Postal Pieces'. Post-Scores Project invites audiences and participants to ‘score’ sounds of

potential and present utopia’s, using intuitive processes of drawing, writing and mark-making, with the

intention to ‘send a sound’ to another. As an exhibition, Post Scores has been presented at Felt Space

(Tarndanya/Adelaide) and 030 (Tokyo).


caps lock records is a DIY record label based focused on archiving the folk, experimental and lofi corners

of the Tarndanya/Adelaide music scene through small runs of physical media and by creating alternative

spaces for listening. We make and curate compilations, live records, workshops, publications and

shows. 


A Room of Her Own is 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.


short snarl is my solo music project, accompanied by Sam Wilson (Any Young Mechanic) and V

Marousopolous (Keeskea). As a trio we weave together delicate, intertwined and slowly unfurling

alternative folk. I have released 2 EP's; "Gossamer Songs" (2024) and "Self Noise" (2025).

thea.studies@gmail.com

@thea.lucia




I am open to workshop bookings, session violin

work, project ideas and collaborations.

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