Tura New Music & UWA School of Music presents
Scale Variable 3 2009
Decibel Somacoustica
8pm Wednesday 18th
November 2009
Callaway Auditorium, UWA
Tickets $20/$15 door sales
Advance bookings from Tura:
9228 3711 or info@tura.com.au
Somacoustica is a program of works investigating acoustic phenomena and it's effect on the human body: vibrations, wave
beats, performance processes and things that happen to the body when it shares space with sound. The program features open
works from the late 19703 composers Ros Bandt and Rainer Linz (Vie), as well as recent works by Western Australians Cat Hope,
Hannah Clemen and a new commission for the full ensemble by Lindsay Vickery. Laurie Andersen's work for a violinist in a door
jamb, a listen and response work by Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier's works for instruments and sine tone generators, and John
Cage's piece for turntable styli - interpreted on the body - represent key pieces in the mediation of the body and sound. For
Somacoustica John Cale's unforgettable recitation of a Lou Reed text is presented in its original form on LP record as Decibel
recreate the spirit of the Velvet Underground's cornerstone work of 1968, The Gift.
Program:
- Alvin Lucier
- Still And Moving Lines Of Silence In Families Of Hyperbolas (1972)
- Laurie Anderson
- Duet For Violin and Door Jamb (1976)
- John Cage
- Cartridge Music (1960)
- The Velvet Underground
- The Gift (1968)
- Hannah Clemen
- a-cne lha-mo (2000)
- Pauline Oliveros
- Antiphonal Meditation (1979)
- Cat Hope
- Sada Abe 1936 (2009)
- Ros Bandt
- Four + FiVe (1979)
- Rainer Linz
- Walk on Parts (1980)
- Lindsay Vickery
- Antibody (2009)
Decibel is a new music ensemble devoted to the performance of music where electronic and acoustic
instruments feature side by side.
They foster and support Australian music and emerging Western Australian
composers in the genre, http://decibel.waapamusic.com
Presented by UWA School of Music in association with Tura New Music
Tura New Music's Annual Program is supported by the Government of Western Australia through the Department of Culture and the Arts in association with Lotterywest, and the Australian Government through the Music Board of the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
