” a very special experience of sound sculpture in composition.” Read the full review here

“Sights and sounds may be joined at the hip, but as always, Decibel spurred us this evening to observe that relationship in a fresh, illuminating way.” Read the full review here.

“Decibel is poised to become one of Perth’s most innovative new music ensembles. Formed only in 2009, it has already given numerous concerts, released a CD of original music and a book commenting on its activity to date. Directed by WAAPA’s Cat Hope, Decibel is armed with an understated yet audacious manifesto. Its aim is clear: to change the way Australians see music. Will it succeed?” Read the full interview here

“Camera Obscura tied images and music together, with intriguing visual scores, a screening of the 1963 Stan Brakhage film Mothlight, and Marina Rosenfeld’s modular piece ‘White Lines’; which relied on sensitive improvisation upon the visual stimulus provided by lines of varying transparency and size.”  Read the review here

“Sound and imagery create a feedback loop. Image directs the way that one hears sound just as sound frames one’s reading of imagery. Such relationships have existed forever. What Decibel has done in Camera Obscura is to foreground these relationships. What the audience is left with is a fuller sensory experience: sight and sound as a dynamic conversation.” See the full review here

“There was a hint of disbelief in the air pre show as word slowly filtered round the PICA bar that Decibel’s first performance for the year had sold out and that aspiring concertgoers were being turned away. A new ‘classical’ music even packing the house? Yes, it happened. With this in mind it is fair to say that the expectations for Decibels first of three PICA performances for the year did not dissapoint.” Full review here.

“The performance and sound design was flawless,the compositions were innovative and interesting, and the concert was presented in a space with an acoustic that actually favored the music. Decibel remains a figurehead of Australian new music.” Full review here.

” A fascinating program” Neville Cohn, The West Australian. Review the whole review here

“adventurous, inquisitive, challenging. They both honour and sabotage modernist traditions. They’re at times uplifting, at others, terrifying, and almost always, thought-provoking. Decibel are doing things that literally no-one else in the state, even the country, is doing, and as such they are as precious as the gold in our proximate desert plains”

Lyndon Blue, Cool Perth Nights, read the full review here.

“A Dark And viscerally unsettling release.” Andy Hamilton, The Wire - Adventures in Modern Music, 328, June 2011, p61.

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“Disintegration: Mutation is absorbing and resolved work that extends the aesthetic that has emerged over recent years in blending the sonically possible into the demandingly-but-satisfyingly musical. The CD’s title suggests Decibel’s approach —the disintegration of conventional music and the mutation of sound into new forms.”

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