We’re delighted to be presenting Climate Notes as part of the Australian Romantic and Classical Era Orchestra’s 10th Anniversary Season. Climate Notes by Anna McMichael and Louise Devenish propels audiences to consider the emotional impacts of climate change. Six new works for violin and percussion, inspired by handwritten letters from scientists describing how they feel about climate change. This performance will weave music with discussion about the works.

More info about the rest of their season and tickets here.

In development in 2023, Self-World is a new 40-min installation-performance for sextet, live electronics and light developed by composer Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, percussionist Louise Devenish, designer Jason Lehane, and musicians from Rubiks Collective and The Sound Collectors Lab. Self-World explores the concept of instrumental infrastructure, using sheet materials to function simultaneously as a bespoke performance space, large-scale percussive instrument, and surface for light refraction and projection. This showing will present the work in progress, followed by an informal discussion.

Alluvial Gold will feature at the Melbourne Recital Centre’s new festival New Music Days. This burgeoning three-day festival is the latest offering in experiential programming, bursting forth into the collective sphere of the new and exciting. New Music Days presents budding ideas that facilitate broader social and political discussion. In its inaugural year, the festival focuses on the importance of First Nations composers, voices and stories, how musicians compose and respond to the environment, and the work of female composers in Australia.
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Harnessing and transforming the extraordinary resonance of the vibraphone using a variety of creative performance techniques, this performance invites audiences into a series of sonic possible worlds exploring the vital presence of water in our lives and environment as explored by Australian composers. Sonic possible worlds (inspired by Salomé Voegelin’s writing) features the premiere of new works by Alice Humphries and Louise Devenish + Stuart James commissioned for this event, alongside works by Kate Moore and Torū Takemitsu performed with guest artists from Defying Gravity.

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Each year on International Women’s Day, Monash musicians present works by women and gender diverse artists. In 2023, the event includes the premiere of a new work for percussion and piano by Cat Hope performed with Aura Go, and the pre-premiere of Alice Humphries’ where all is blue for percussion and electronics, from the Sonic Possible Worlds project.

Collaboration with Australian conductor Kelly Lovelady and Ruthless Jabiru, performed beneath The Thames in the phenomenal sub-aquatic Grand Entrance Hall, Brunel Museum. Featuring a special ‘low end’ orchestra, with world premiere of a new work by Cat Hope, European premieres of West Australian composers Lindsay Vickery and Pedro Alvarez (WA), Kaija Saariaho conducted by Indigenous artist/Decibel member Aaron Wyatt, and further works by Tansy Davies and Julius Eastman.

Decibel make their debut at the iconic Cafe Oto, with a major 40 minute composition by French musique concrete composer Lionel Marchetti, titled Inland Lake. This work is featured on Decibel’s upcoming release on Australian label Room 40 in 2022.

21 x 2 minute compositional miniatures for the Decibel ScorePlayer app, presented on screen as films designed by Karl Ockelford. Commissions supported by the Australia Council. See full program here

A selection of works by Victorian composer Cat Hope, featuring the Decibel ScorePlayer app, and from the release ‘Cat Hope: Decibel’ (Ezz-Thetics Switzerland, CD, 2022). Louise will perform solo for tam-tam and subwoofer, Tone Being.

A selection of compositions by Australian and UK composers featuring the Decibel ScorePlayer app developed by the ensemble, available on the Apple App store.

A selection of compositions by Australian and UK composers featuring the Decibel ScorePlayer app developed by the ensemble, available on the Apple App store.

Climate Notes by Anna McMichael and Louise Devenish propels audiences to consider the emotional impacts of climate change. Performed as part of Clarity Engine, a celebration of curiosity and the ingenuity of the musical inventor, curated by Backstage Music. Join us in Sydney’s newest music warehouse for a Sunday afternoon of playfulness and creativity with experimental installations, musical machines and performances by Australia’s most adventurous creators. Clarity Engine celebrates the wild, obsessive and infinitely varied creative process of artists: the messy, unpredictable and unexpected pathways that lead us to elegant, clarified artistic expression. This program then brings together all sorts of diverse, fun, interesting explorations by musical-plus-other-elements-type artists.

Join the award-winning Monash Art Ensemble on October 20 as they premiere new compositions by Paul Grabowsky, Andrea Keller and Cheryl Durongpisitskul at the Alexander Theatre as part of Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2022