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    ALBUM

    Still and Moving Lines : CD

    Still and Moving Lines

    This album featuresDecibel performing four works by important American composper Alvin Lucier, three of which had been previously unrecorded. Ever Present (2002), the only work offered here that has been recorded before is for flute, saxophone, and piano with slow sweep pure wave oscillator and is considered by many to be Lucier’s most ‘musical ‘ of his ouvre.

    Carbon Copies (1989) is for saxophone, piano, flute and playback; the work investigates musicians imitating their environments.

    Hands (1994) is for organ with four players. The performers use their hands to subtly alter the harmonics produced from the pipes of an organ.

    Shelter (1967) is for vibration pickups, amplification system and enclosed space and finds Lucier offering the sounds of outside a performance space.

    All these works demonstrate Alvin Lucier’s fertile mind and exploring, experimental sensibility.Alvin Lucier was born in 1931 in Nashua, New Hampshire and passed away in 2021. 

    Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers’ physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. His recent works include a series of sound installations and works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra in which, by means of close tunings with pure tones, sound waves are caused to spin through space.

    Decibel presented a monograph performance of Lucier’s work in 2010, which was then toured Australia wide to celebrate the composers 80th birthday. This included works such as  Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields) (1990), Sounds form the Bridge (1978), In Memorium Jon Higgins (1994) and the pieces featured here.

    In 2025, Decibel performed Carbon Copies at Revivification, an installation generating sound using Lucier’s invitro cells.  Lucier collaborator James Fei joined the group for this performance, which was followed by a short improvisation inside the installation.

    This release is packaged in a folded package of 11” x 17” card type stock paper,  inserted into re-sealable plastic sleeves. There is no jewel case or tray card. There is a bar code. It is released on the US label Pogus. You can find reviews on thier web site here.

    “engaging realisations – highly recommended”
    D. Barbiero, Avant Music News

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    Fact Overview

    • Composer featured: Alvin Lucier
    • 11” x 17” card type stock paper, folded, inserted into re-sealable plastic sleeves. There is no jewel case, tray card etc.
    • Album design: Traianos Pakioufakis.
    • Recorded, mixed and mastered at Soundfeild Studio.
    • Releasedon Pogus, December 2012.
    • Read the reviews here.

    Past Performances

    In 2010, Decibel performed a series of Australian premieres of work by US composer Alvin Lucier. 

    In July 2025, Decibel members Cat Hope, Tristen Parr and Lindsay Vickery  performed Lucier’s 1989 composition ‘Carbon Copies’ at the Art Gallery of WA with Lucier’s collaborator and saxophonist James Fei as part of Politics of the Machines: Synthetic Sentience, the 5th POM Conference, hosted by UWA. Artistic Director Cat Hope presented on composer Alvin Lucier’s use of technology as a conduit for sound and sentience, drawing on Decibel’s long engagement with his work.

    This also involved an improvised performance with Revivification (by Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson, Stuart Hodgetts and Matt Gingold) responding to the the neural activity of Lucier’s ‘in-vitro’ organoids as they pulse through transducers and actuators striking the brass resonators in the space. 

    Photos and video by Edify Media




    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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