Revolution by Decibel New Music Ensemble
Where: Melbourne Recital Centre
When: 6pm Thursday 28 June
Tickets: $25/$20 from Melbourne Recital Centre
Revolution is a concert dedicated to the vinyl record – as a sound source, musical instrument and score. Decibel’s performance in Primrose Potter Salon features works which engage both turntable and vinyl records as sources of musical material in a chamber music setting. It goes beyond the turntable as a machine, and the vinyl record as a container for a complete, recorded piece of music.
Since the invention of the gramophone in the late nineteenth century, composers have experimented with using the player and records in their music as instruments, scores and sound materials.
This program presents a range of historic and recent works including pieces by Milan Knížák, John Cage, Cat Hope, Lindsay Vickey, Annika Moses, Chris De Groot and The Velvet Underground.
Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Decibel New Music Ensemble.
Two Minutes From Home
Where: Melbourne Recital Centre
When: 6pm Tuesday 26 July
Tickets: $40/$29 from Melbourne Recital Centre
Decibel makes music for curious minds. Bridging the divide between acoustic and electronic; classical and contemporary; traditional and avant-garde; the ensemble is a boundary-breaking force in chamber music.
Over the last decade, Decibel has commissioned over 70 new works, collaborated with a who’s who of iconic Australian composers, put its stamp on music by pioneers such as John Cage and The Velvet Underground, and championed inspired new ways of music-making.
Part cinema, part experimental music extravaganza, Decibel performs 20 two-minute works composed in the year 2020. The big twist? Each work is written in a radically different visual language for Decibel to decipher.
Follow along in real time with stunning projections of the animated musical scores, as the ensemble transforms colours, shapes, lines and objects into music. There’s Aaron Wyatt’s 'Glisten' that turns jewellery box treasures into an equally shimmering soundscape; Thembi Soddell’s 'Let Go of Control' which sounds and looks like a gritty adventure into the unknown; Marina Rosenfeld’s self-referential and resolutely non-conformist 'A martial exercise in togetherness'; J.G. Thirwell’s 'Angel of Retribution' in which a minefield of colourful shapes and symbols explodes across the senses; and so much more.
Open your ears, your eyes and your mind, in a concert like no other by acclaimed genre-disruptors Decibel.
Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Decibel New Music Ensemble.
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