2018 has been our ninth year and it has been something!
ALBUM: The Last Days of Reality on Room 40: featuring music by Cat Hope and Lionel Marchetti. ‘The Last Days of Reality. One on NiteStylz here, another on Toneshift – who gave it five out of five stars and called it “A Masterpeice”. It also made it onto Nicola Orlandino’s”Best Artworks of 2018″ list and radio playlists accross the world.
Live: Revolution (December 2018) was a concert dedicated to the vinyl record – as a sound source, musical instrument and score. The program featured three new world premieres and as well as reworkings of established works. A new ‘Difficult Commission’ by Annika Moses was featured, alongside works by Milan Knížák, Chris De Groot, Cat Hope, Lindsay Vickery, The Velvet Underground and Ryan Ross Smith. Five out of five stars in a review in Limelight.
Decibel members also took part in the Summers Night Project, with performances in Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide.
2019?
Featuring in the Perth Festival as part of Speechless, a new Difficult Commission to fund new ‘boards’ for our collaborative composition Talking Board; and celebrating our 10th anniversary with 10 concerts throughout the year, including performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre in May, at the TENOR conference, Monash University, and Gender Diversity in Music and Art conference at UWA in July. Thats eight of the ten concerts already confirmed – more to come!