Chris Cody and Charlie Tait - Under Ocean

Name: Chris Cody and Charlie Tait - Under Ocean
Start: 2025-09-25T10:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-25T12:00:00+10:00
Location: 81 Johnston St, 2038

Schedule

Thu Sep 25 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

81 Johnston St, 2038 | Pyrmont, NS

“Beautiful deep grooves and environmental awareness - music for our times - music to heal and invite introspection…the resultant cross-fertilisation of jazz, classical, and ambient electronic music is fascinating.”
John Fenton N.Z.
Pianist and composer Chris Cody and sound artist Charlie Tait met in 2023, forming a friendship and collaboration around their contrasting approaches and styles of music practice. Coming from different backgrounds, cultures and generations, they seek through dialogue and practice-based experimentation to create and perform new music that combines Cody’s jazz and classical influences with Tait’s contemporary electronic music.
Using solo piano improvisations and spontaneous compositions, they reimagine them, adding new sound elements, rearranging motifs, harmonies and rhythms and experimenting with various instruments, effects and sounds.
Together, Cody and Tait create new emotionally charged sonic landscapes that are both lyrical and expansive, evoking a range of emotions and imagined places and moods.
“Enthralling music ... the melodic richness is realised with ever-changing textures… even more notable is the coherence and thoughtfulness of the composing as we journey across this new musical world.” Sydney Morning Herald
Chris Cody is an internationally renowned pianist, composer and producer. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has headlined at numerous international festivals including Paris Quartiers d’Eté, London, Rome, Brussels Jazz Marathon, Stockholm, Munich, Marciac, Geneva, Ascona, Derry, Dar Es Salaam and Algiers and at a vast array of concert venues throughout the USA, Europe, Africa and Australasia, from the Village Gate NYC to the Munich Staatsoper.
He has worked with many outstanding international musicians including Roy Hargrove, Carla Bruni, Herb Geller, Tina Arena, Annie Whitehead, Rhoda Scott, Rick Margitza, Michel Jonaz, Sunny Murray, Marcel Azzola, Jason Marsalis, Sandy Evans, and many more.
With 14 CDs of his music released on international labels he has received glowing reviews around the world, regularly featured on international radio and television and has collaborated as pianist, composer or producer on over thirty other international albums in a range of styles.

Charlie Tait has achieved international acclaim with his solo project Cambio Sun, particularly through the single "Mad As They Come" from the album Retisent. After moving to London, he released his second record, Animal Sense, which was mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios and managed by former Sony CEO Nick Gatfield.
Tait toured extensively across the UK and Europe, performing at festivals and headlining shows throughout the continent. Upon returning to Australia, he released the EP Still Here, followed by a third EP, In Vitro, drawing inspiration from Melbourne's vibrant electronic scene.
Currently, Charlie works as a producer and engineer, collaborating with a diverse range of local Sydney artists at his purpose-built studio, The Confectionery, in Newtown.