Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

Realtime Review of Lucier concert

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

http://www.realtimearts.net/article/97/9884

SOMACOUSTICA review by Adam Trainer

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

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Decibel concert rated in Top 5 Australian Artist gigs

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

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”.

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

read the review here

Image of Decibel Image: Cat Hope, artistic director of Decibel

Two 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

SOMACOUSTICA review in The West Australian newspaper

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

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review of TAPE IT in Earwax magazine

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

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Decibel: article in ‘Inside WAAPA” Issue 21.

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

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TAPE IT preview interview with Cat Hope

Monday, September 21st, 2009

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TAPE _ IT review Drum 17 September 2009 By Jason Kenny

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

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