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Laura Jane Lowther: Loaded [NSFW]

from After Julia [studio album] by Decibel

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Emotionally charged headlines have always been used to cause shock and provocation. Now click bait and intentionally misleading words can
lead to inaccurate assumptions about everything from local news to global events. We use them to filter out what is worthy of our reading time, often procrastinating on our laptops, needing to feel ‘up-to-date’ but ending up reading stories about talented animals. In LOADED [NSFW], the soundscape is created by the emotional response of the players to the headlines. The quotes have been curated from recent online media, you may even recognise some. The piece slowly builds to a cacophony of sounds that both agitate and comfort the audience, like elevator music made from the barrage of notification and computer sounds coming from a busy office. This work was cis funded through the Difficult Commission, an initiative supporting the creation of new work by Western Australian composers for the Decibel New Music Ensemble.

Laura Jane Lowther is a composer from Perth, Western Australia and a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Composition and Music Technology. Most notably she is the vocalist and producer of the electronic pop act, KUČKA, who have been making waves both nationally and internationally in the popular music industry. Laura’s work often blurs the lines between music and fine art; she has composed for theatre, chamber ensembles, contemporary dance productions, and has created interactive sonic art installations for major arts institutions.
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from After Julia [studio album], track released September 4, 2023
Recorded by both Stuart James at the Geoff Gibbs Auditorium, at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Mixed by Stuart James.

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Decibel is an Australian new music ensemble devoted to the realisation of music where acoustic and electronic instruments are represented. Decibel pioneer electronic score formats for new and existing works, incorporating mobile score formats and networked playback environments.
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