In the new years eve edition of Drum Media, Thursday 31 December 2009, n. 169, p. 13 Jason Kenny, in the Drum Media writers poll, rated Decibel’s concert SomAcoustica, amongst his ” Top 5 Australian Artists gigs”.
Archive for December, 2009
Decibel concert rated in Top 5 Australian Artist gigs
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Decibel feature on SOUNDCAPSULE # 1
Saturday, December 19th, 2009go here for a free download of Cat Hope’s Abe Sada: Sada Abe 1936 as performed by Decibel in November 2009. This great online release also features free music from m Germ Studies (Clare Cooper and Chris Abrahams), Joel Stern, Adam Simmons, Ernie Althoff, Mark Cauvin, Topology, Rice?Corpse, James Rushford, , Clocked Out, Jason Sweeney, and a video composition by Brigid Burke.
Realtime review of TAPE IT
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
“Hope and her peers…continue to argue that noise art, concrete approaches to sound and to the sample, together with instrumental composition, graphic scores and rules-based ideas, are not incompatible…Just as Cat Hope’s own approach favours the unresolved, so the combination of ideas and processes here might favour an endless, irresolvable dialogue, rather than a new condition of musical interpretation.”
“Hope and her peers…continue to argue that noise art, concrete approaches to sound and to the sample, together with instrumental composition, graphic scores and rules-based ideas, are not incompatible…Just as Cat Hope’s own approach favours the unresolved, so the combination of ideas and processes here might favour an endless, irresolvable dialogue, rather than a new condition of musical interpretation.” Read the full review here.
Somacoustica and Tape It reviews in Resonate magazine
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Image: Cat Hope, artistic director of DecibelTwo reviews by our WA contributors Kelly Curran and Ben Hamblin bring us up-to-date about one of the latest developments of new music in Western Australia: the exciting new ensemble Decibel.
Pulse – Pulsation – Sensation (18 November 2009)
By Kelly Curran
Tape It (10 September 2009)
By Ben Hamblin