Decibel is a new music ensemble made up of staff from the Compostion and Music Technology streams at WAAPA. You can find out all about them on thier web site.

At the beginning of 2010, WAAPA in conjunction with Tura new Music, a new music organization based in Perth, began an archiving project of Western Australian new Music. The aims of the project are to discover, collect, collate and digitize Western Australian contemporary art music from 1970 to the current day, making material available for [...]

‘Crash is a psychopathological hymn and I’m singing it’ — J G Ballard JG Ballard has always had a musical sensibility, despite his claims to possess a ‘tin ear’. He’s quoted in The Face as saying ‘there’s no music in my work. The most beautiful music in the world is the sound of machine guns’. [...]

Director, producer and writer Rolf de Heer has been called “one of Australia’s few genuine film stylists” (1) and “a director who continues to provoke and challenge” (2). One of the less talked about strengths in de Heer’s films is his attention to sound design. He is one of the few Australian filmmakers to embrace [...]

ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of sound installation and music composition practices in addressing the relationship between sound and telecommunications devices, in this case the mobile phone. The popularity of mobile phone artworks is rapidly increasing, with handsets readily available, artists excited about sponsorship opportunities, and the general push in the “electronic arts” area. [...]