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New-Music Ensemble Decibel Perform the Work of Legendary Composer Alvin Lucier
Wednesday, 05 May 2010
Lucier’s work explores acoustic phenomena and auditory perception in works that combine sound art, installation and more traditional music formats.
Directed by sound artist and composer Cat Hope, Decibel features some of Perth’s best new-music artists: Lindsay Vickery (reeds, computer), Stuart James (piano, percussion, computer), Tristan Parr (cello) and Malcolm Riddoch (electronics).
In Still and Moving Lines Decibel will perform the work of Lucier examining the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, interference between closely-tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media such as walls and objects.
Tura New Music Artistic Director Tos Mahoney said: “This is a wonderful opportunity for Perth audiences to experience the magnitude of Lucier’s work through the sounds of Decibel.”
The program will feature one of the keystones of electronic music, I am Sitting in a Room, featuring special guest performer Peter Holland, taking his distinctive voice and allowing the acoustics of the room to render it unrecognisable.
Another piece Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields) explores the memory of the famous Beatle’s tune using a tea pot as a reproductive sound chamber, and Carbon Copies has musicians performing with sounds of the environment they record themselves.
Shelter takes sounds from the outside of the theatre and brings them inside, and Hands makes use of the WAAPA organ in a way you will never have seen before. Other pieces use sound activated lights and tone generators alongside traditional instruments.
Still and moving Lines: The Music of Alvin Lucier is presented as part of Tura New Music’s Scale Variable Series.
Still and Moving Lines is the first of three performances. The second and third performances will take place at the Liquid Architecture Festival of Sound Arts in Sydney and Melbourne in July this year.
Performance Information: Still and Moving Lines: The Music of Alvin Lucier
Thursday 13 May 7.30pm
Music Auditorium, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley.
Tickets are $22 full/$17 concession. Bookings through WAAPA Box Office on 9370 6636.