Decibel are participating in the Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth.

You can find  our performances at

PICA 19 September Camera Obscura with guest artist, Marina Rosenfeld (NYC), 8pm

Friday 23 September, performances as part of  New Music Up Late with Julian Day, recording at the ABC, East Perth, 6pm.

Saturday 24th September at Midland Railway workshops,  performing Marina Rosenfeld’s ‘Cannons’. Not to be missed : 4 steel cannons fitted with sub woofer speakers!!

the cover to Vol. 3 of SOUND SCRIPTS The proceedings of the Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference 2009

4 Decibel members are presenting at the Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference, held at PICA from Friday September 16th to Sunday 18th.

Get the schedule here.
Get there to grab your copy of the third Volume of Sound Scripts, hot off the press – with a paper by Decibel member Lindsay Vickery.

AUSTRALASIAN COMPUTER MUSIC CONFERENCE – University of Auckland, Music Theatre, 1pm, July 8th.

Decibel perform Lindsay Vickery’s Night Fragment‘s (2011) in a program of works by Ricardo Dal Farra, Lidia Zielinska, Martin Wesley-Smith and Andrew Brown.

Concert 3: Camera Obscura
Monday 19 September, 2011, 8pm. As part of the Totally Huge New Music Festival.

Most peoples current music is experience in association with constructed image. Through television, movies, music video, games, or even live performance the listening experience is often combined with visual action. This program looks at music that uses image as integral in its conception, construction and performance – from projected scores and installation to images generated by sound.

Samuel Dunscombe (AUS): West Park (2010) for Clarinet, Flute, MaxMSP, and Quadraphonic Spatialised Field Recorded Sound [WA premiere]
Austin Buckett (Aus – ACT): Mothlight for bass clarinet,flute, cello, percussion and electronics with projected score and film (2011)
Lindsay Vickery and Cat Hope (AUS) Exquisite Corpse [world premiere]
Marina Rosenfeld (USA): Cannons (2010) for ensemble and bass horns[Australian premiere]
Kynan Tan (AUS) Split Mirror Planes (2010) for 4 instrumentalists, 4 speakers, laptop processing and 4 video sources [world premiere]

Decibel will feature in two concerts on the east coast of Australia in May 2011.

This includes an appearance at the PEKING SPRING festival, in Canberra on May 14th, and another at THE SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM on May 15th. The program will feature works by Cat Hope, Lindsay Vickery, Alan Lamb’s Infinity Machine and Ever Present, by Alvin Lucier.

The program is supported by the New Music Network Mini Series and the WA Department of Culture and the Arts.

Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) have announced the winners of the inaugural ART Music Awards, the only national event in Australia to acknowledge the  achievement and creative successes of Australian performers and composers in the genres of contemporary art music, jazz and experimental music.

The inaugural Award for Excellence in Experimental Music was awarded to Cat Hope for Decibel’s 2009/2010 Annual Program.

Tuesday April 19th, 1.10 – 2pm in the Main Auditorium of WAAPA. Its Free!

Works performed (fron the Music From The Dark Space program at PICA) featuring Caitlin Cassidy, mezzo soprano.

Lindsay Vickery – Night Fragments (2011)
Cat Hope – Longing (2011)
Alan Lamb – Musicians Battling with Infinity (2011)

Decibel new Music Ensemble in partnership with PICA and Tura new Music invite you and a friend to the launch of

Decibel at PICA

6pm PICA Bar 16^th March 2011

to celebrate the launch of

—A series of three concerts by Decibel at PICA in March, June and September 2011

—-The debut Decibel CD “disintegration:mutation” on hellosQuare recordings. Preview.

—-The Decibel book “Audible Designs”

* short sneak peak performance

*subscription packages with book and CD available.

RSVP by March 11^th to PICA: rsvp@pica.org.au

http://decibel.waapamusic.com

A Voice from the Dark Space

Monday, 28 March, 8pm
The first in a series of 3 concerts in the main space at PICA, A Voice from the Dark Space brings a musical experience that studies the dark, the quiet and the mysterious landscape.

Decibel are directed by Cat Hope (also flutes and electronics) and are unique in their combination of new compositions,  arrangements, sound art and improvisation. Members Lindsay Vickery (clarinets/saxophones/prgoramming), Stuart James (keyboard/percussion/programming), Tristan Parr (cello) and Malcom Riddoch (electroacoustics/networking) are some of Perth’s most renown new music performers. A special guest for this program is mezzo-soprano Caitlin Cassidy.

The program includes new works by ensemble members Lindsay Vickery and Cat Hope, Perth composers Adam Trainer and Tim Beahan as well as works by Cornelius Cardew, Julian Day and Ennio Morricone. A new instrument created for Decibel by sound artist Alan Lamb is also featured.

The Decibel book “Audible Designs” on PICA Press and CD “disintegration:mutation” on hellosQuare recordings available from PICA

for press enquires contact Cat Hope 0409697657 and go to decibel.waapamusic.com for more details.

Decibel tour southwest Western Australia, doing workshops and presenting a program of works by Eno, The Velvet Underground, Percy Grianger, Alvin Lucier, Rainer Linz, Cat Hope, Lindsay Vickery and more!

Albany Friday January 28, Kalyenup Studio, Albany Entertainment centre, 7.30pm

Denmark  Saturday, January 29, Karri View Winery, 7pm

Northcliffe Sunday, January 30, Painted Tree Gallery, 5.30 pm

Nannup Monday, January 31, Town Hall, 7pm

The Albany Entertainment Centre