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    ALBUM

    After Julia

    After Julia Album Cover

    After Julia is a collection of eight works commissioned from Australian women and non-binary composers, who were asked to respond musically to Julia Gillard’s tenure as the first female Australian Prime Minster (2010—2013), a period which saw her subjected to gender discrimination within politics but also from the wider Australian society.

    For artistic director of Decibel, Cat Hope, witnessing Gillard’s experience encouraged her to look into gender discrimination in her own world, Australian new music practice, and After Julia is the beginning of a response. The program was first premiered at the ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, Australia in November 2014, with Gillard in attendance.

    “Utterly Masterful”
    The Music Trust, Loudmouth, 2023

    Buy After Julia as CD on Tall Poppies or digital on Bandcamp or stream on Spotify.

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    Guest Artists

    Vocals on Arrows:  Helen Grimley, Charlotte Crowe, Ines Paxton, Eloise Martin-Jones, Clare Grant, Andrée Greenwell.

    Recording, Engineering, and Acknowledgements

    Recorded by both Stuart James and Hadyn Buxton (live and telematically) between Soundfield Studio, Perth, and Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, Melbourne University’s Digital Hub, Melbourne, during the COVID-19 lockdowns. 

    Arrows vocal recordings engineered by Ryan Miller and Tim Carr at One Flight Up, Petersham, NSW. 

    Mixed by Stuart James at Soundfield Studio. 

    Decibel would acknowledge the support of Julia Gillard, Random House, Stephen Adams, Tura New Music, Metro Arts and the Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts. 

    This project was supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the WA Dept Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.

     

    ALBUMS

    Cat Hope Decibel

    Cat Hope – Decibel

    Still and Moving Lines

    Still and Moving Lines

    Stasis Ecstatic

    Stasis Ecstatic

    Disintegration: Mutation

    Disintegration: Mutation

    Ephemeral Rivers

    Ephemeral Rivers

    The last days of reality

    The last days of reality

    Tuned Darker

    Tuned Darker LP

    After Julia Album Cover

    After Julia

    Inland Lake

    Lionel Marchetti – Inland Lake (le lac int​é​rieur)

    Actions | Remarks - John Cage's "Variations"

    Actions | Remarks: John Cage’s Variations

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    Artistic Director, Cat Hope info@decibelnewmusic.com
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