TAD SOUDEN x BLUE DIVERS - Sound & Vision
An immersive film and live music collaboration by film maker Tad Souden and Alec Marshall's Blue Divers project.

The Servo, Port Kembla | Dharawal Country
SATURDAY 16th SEPTEMBER
6pm

Tad Souden is a filmmaker based on Dharawal Country. He graduated a Bachelor of Digital Media from UOW in 2014, and has operated professionally in this space since - predominantly as a cinematographer and photographer.

Much of Tads work centres around caring for people and place. It explores relationships and reciprocity between people and the natural world, and ways to make both thrive.

A recent experience in and out of an emergency surgery inspired the intention behind this collaboration with Blue Divers. Lots of slow recovery time, time to take it all in. A complex but beautiful opportunity of reflection, to go into the depths of one's being. This film is a representation of that journey, and a way to express it in a visual form.

Blue Divers is an Australian instrumental group led by Alec Marshall since 2017, based in Wollongong in NSW. Made up of a rotating ensemble of performers, Blue Divers play meditative music with fragile guitar playing, woozy synths, scattered percussion, flutes and organ drones. The band could fall apart or fall asleep at any moment, with drifting ghost guitar melodies being the closest thing to holding it all together. Blue Divers have released two LPs, Blue Divers I and Blue Divers II, on Bedroom Suck Records.

Lyrical looped guitar phrases drenched in slapback echo that evokes shimmering light off of water...accompanied by synth swells, considered acoustic plucks, and deep bass that all contribute to flesh out the tracks, encompass the listener, and drive them forward without any over-the-top dramatic musical theatrics - Repressed Records

Special guests announced shortly.

An evening of ambient sounds and visuals brought to you by Blues Divers, Tad Souden, Holy Pav and The Servo.