EVENTS // Two Minutes From Home @ Melbourne Recital Centre

CONTENT COURTESY DECIBEL NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE

On July 26 at Melbourne Recital Centre, Decibel New Music Ensemble will present Two Minutes From Home live for the very first time, featuring the 20 x two-minute audio visual music commissions that were released online in 2020.

Expect a wide range of musical styles, performance approaches, and snippets of interviews from the artist between tracks.

World leading interpreters of graphic notations and pioneer digital score formats for composition and performance, including the ongoing development of their successful ScorePlayer App for iPad, composer Cat Hope says that audiences will be able to follow along in real time with stunning projections of the animated musical scores, as they transform 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,” Hope says.

In addition to the concerts, Decibel have also released an album of compositions on improvisation and new music Swiss label, ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, which is available digitally and on CD on Bandcamp.

All the pieces were created using the Decibel ScorePlayer, which Hope uses to present her animated graphic notations.

“In the track Chunk, it sends coordinates the from one page of the score to a Disklavier and the other to the live pianist on a second piano,” she explains. “In Wanderlust different audio recordings can be inserted to the score; in Shadow of Mill the sub tone is played from the score itself, and Majority of One includes a notated part for room feedback.

“Some tracks on this album were recorded in real time over the Internet between Perth and Melbourne facilitated by software developed by Decibel member Aaron Wyatt.”