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

Decibel are travelling to Dunedin, New Zealand for a performance on Friday December 3rd at the Marama Hall, University of Otago, at the 2010 Joint Conference of the MSA and NZMS  entitled ‘Re:Visions”.  You can find the program for the conference here. Decibel members Cat Hope and Lindsay Vickery will also be presenting papers, and conducting a forum discussion on electro-acoustic performance. Decibel will be joined by guest artists Jonathan Paget , Chris De Groot and Stewart Smith.

The performance program includes:

NIGEL WESTLAKE ‘Hinchenbrook Riffs’ for Acoustic Guitar And Delay (2003) 8’30”
WARREN BURT ‘Another Noisy Lullaby’ for 4 players and iphone players (2009) 11′
PERCY GRAINGER ‘Free Music No. 1’ for 4 iphone Theremins (1936)  2’20”
LINDSAY VICKERY ’ Improbable Games’ for Three Players And MAX/MSP (2010) 10”
CAT HOPE ‘Possible Stories of Harry Power” for alto flute, bass clarinet and classical guitar, with Max/MSP score (2010) 8″
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN “ Pole” for alto flute, bass clarinet and Max MSP (1970) 1o”
DECIBEL “Lingua Ignota” for three players (2010)

Decibel will be performing at CreateWorld in Brisbane, at Griffith University Campus, Southbank on the 1st of December
If you can face a 9am gig, this will be for you! Something different than our usual, with some special guests.

On the program is:

Nigel Westlake: Hinchenbrook Riffs for guitar and delay. Feat. Jonathan Paget on acoustic guitar
Percy Grainger: Free Music No. 1 for 4 iphone Theremins. Feat. Stewart Smith and Jonathan Paget.
Cat Hope: Empire for shoe throwers,Theremins and MaxMSP. Feat Theodore Mage on laptop.
Lindsay Vickery: Improbable Games for three players and MaxMSP

Decibel will be performing another Lucier program at the Judith Wright Centre  of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, in a series entitled  The Trilling WIre, which also features Ensemble Offspring and Golden Fur. 

November 11, 7.30pm in the Shofront Space.

This program will feature pieces from the 3 Lucier programs presented in 2010. Thier recording of Lucier works is now complete: news soon about the release. More details here.

- Decibel will be performing at a free concert as part of Edith Cowan University’s research week, on Thrusday August 18, 7.30 in the Main Auditorium at WAAPA, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley.

- Decibel will be performing in Brisbane on the 11th of November as part of the Trilling Wire series at the Judith Wright Centre, Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley. They will be perfoming more Alivin Lucier works.

Sunday, June 6, 2010, 7pm at Sci Tech.

More info on the Facebook page.

Tim Burns

news just out: Decibel performing I AM SITTING IN A ROOM by Alvin Lucier featuring guest performer, Tim Burns.

Decibel at Liquid Architechture 2010
Melbourne: Friday July 2: RRR studios
Sydney: Saturday July 3: Eugene Goosens Studio, ABC, Utlimo.

   Still and Moving Lines –  The music of Alvin Lucier.

   7.30pm 13th of May, 2010.

   Main Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.   

Move It:  2nd of December 2009, Apple University Consortium’s CREATEWORLD conference at Griffith University in Brisbane. More information here.

Somacoustica : 18th November 2009 Callaway Auditorium, UWA