Decibel have been awarded a $18,000 grant to work with mulitple tablet computers as music readers and writers  in live performance  using wireless networks. This project will research application development and creative uses for tablet computing by extending current capacity to read and generate new music materials for use in live music performance.

The project involves the creation of 2 new works by Lindsay Vickery and Cat Hope, as well as a rendition of John Cage’s complete set of Variations I – VII for score reading apps on ipads.

A paper written and presented for the XVII Colloquio Musica Informatica in Torino, Italy, in 2010. You can read the paper  here

A paper by Cat Hope & Lindsay Vickery written for Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference , Huddersfield, UK, July, 2011. pp 224 – 23. Download it here

You can download a conversation between Cat Hope and Lindsay Vickery about the involvement of computers in the composition process here. This was used as a basis for a paper by Cat Hope presented at the Australasian Computer Music Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, in July 2011. You can read it here or download the proceedings for the conference here.

WHEN LINES BECOME BITS:
ENGAGING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY TO PERFORM WORKS BY ALVIN LUCIER

Dr. Cat Hope
Head of Composition and Music Technology
Stuart James
Lecturer in Music Technology

Kynan Tan
Honours Student

[ You can download the full paper here]

THINGNESS & SONIC ALCHEMY:DECIBEL PERFORMS ALVIN LUCIER

Liquid Architecture 11, 2010

The Performance Space, RRR Radio, Melbourne July 2
Eugene Goosens Hall, ABC Studios, Sydney, July 3

Essay by Jonathan W. Marshall.

[You can download this essay here]

MOBILE SCORES AND CLICK TRACKS – teaching old dogs new tricks

[you can download this paper as a PDF here]