Decibel is a 6 piece new music ensemble focusing on the integration of acoustic and electronic instruments in chamber music performance, founded in Western Australia in 2009 by
Louise Devenish, Cat Hope, Stuart James, Tristen Parr, Lindsay Vickery and
Aaron Wyattin.
Decibel are world-leading interpreters of graphic notations and pioneer digital score formats for composition and performance. This includes the ongoing development of their successful Decibel ScorePlayer App for iPad, enabling coordinated performance of graphic notations. Whilst rooted in western art music tradition, Decibel aim to remove stylistic boundaries in their commissioning and performance approaches, which focus on the combination of acoustic and electronic sounds. The ensemble has collaborated with composers such as
Eliane Radigue,
Werner Dafeldecker, Agostino Di Scipio,
Alvin Curran,
David Toop,
Marina Rosenfeld,
Lionel Marchetti, Andreas Weixler and Johannes S. Sistermanns and worked with iconic Australian composers Jon Rose, Alan Lamb,
Ross Bolleter, Warren Burt, Eric Griswold and
Anthony Pateras. Decibel have contributed the Australian premieres of works by Fausto Romitelli, Tristan Murail,
Alvin Lucier, Peter Ablinger, Mauricio Kagel and have toured and recorded monograph concerts dedicated to Roger Smalley, Alvin Lucier,
John Cage and
Giacinto Scelsi.
