1-PRIMAL NOTIONS

Composer: Mauricio Rodriguez

Dizi: Zhou Yiming

Mauricio Rodriguez

Composer & Sonic Architect

Doctor of Musical Arts (Stanford, mentored by Brian Ferneyhough); MA Sonology (Royal Conservatory The Hague). Performed by Arditti & JACK quartets, Ensemble Intercontemporain, ICE, Klangforum Wien, Talea, Curious Chamber Players and more.

Residencies: Arteles Finland, CCMIX Xenakis Centre, Gotland ICMC, Royaumont, Havana Superior Institute of Art. Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts Mexico.

Primal Notions 

Solo dizi flute & performer, 96 algorithmic modules

A walkable, floor-sized score invites the performer to pace, select and sound algorithm-born modules in real time; no path is ever repeated thanks to Koenig’s Series filter embedded in Max/MSP. In the digital mode the same logic is projected for audience and player, turning every performance into a unique, unretraceable topology of breath, gesture and code.

2-STORMBRUSH

Composer: Xavier Davenport

Pipa:Luo Ran

Zheng:Wu Yanxiao

Yangqin: Shen Peiyu

Zhonghu: Zeng Yujie

Zhongruan: Zhu Lingduo

Xavier Davenport

Quantum-acoustic provocateur

Ohio-born, triple-degree in physics, Chinese & music (Wittenberg);

M.S. electrophysics (National Chiao-Tung), M.M. composition (DePaul);

now DMA candidate at UIUC, writing quantum algorithms that make music laugh, stutter and improvise.

Stormbrush 

For five Chinese instruments + stereo audio + browser-based video score

ViPPSA technology synchronizes five pre-rendered videos across separate screens, letting pipa, guzheng, zhongruan, yangqin and zhonghu weave polytempic raindrop hockets while they improvise on color, brightness and brush-stroke contours. Four graphic languages—precise arcs, randomized hues, falling “rain” and melodic gestures—shape an impressionist thunderstorm that swells, cracks and evaporates in real time. Performers annotate directly on the scrolling score, turning every rehearsal into a new layer of meteorological memory.

3-When The Self of Us Becomes Ours

Composer: Fernando Egido

Erhu: Wu Siyao, Zhang Yanzhuoya

Zhonghu: Yang Manting, Huang Yushan

Fernando Egido

Fernando Egido is a Composer dedicated to experimental, instrumental, and electronic music. He studied composition with José Luis de Delás and received musical training in workshops with composers, analysts, and interpreters at the Music School of the University of Alcalá de Henares. He studied Computer Music, especially with Emiliano del Cerro, at LIEM courses. 

When The Self of Us Becomes Ours

2 erhu + 2 zhonghu, live electronics, audience web app

A closed Wi-Fi loop turns listeners into co-authors: every 30 seconds their 1-to-5 rating rewires a swarm of Max/MSP pattern-bots, which in turn beam fresh notation to the players’ phones. No score exists before you click; form is the real-time graph of collective approval. The piece asks whether a crowd can become a single, sensing organism—or remain isolated atoms of taste—while microtonally scordatura strings translate our shared hesitation into shimmering, data-driven lyricism.

4-H3

Compoer: Paul Turowski

Pipa:Luo Ran  

Erhu: Zhang Yanzhuoya

Dizi: Zhou Yiming

Paul Turowski

Paul Turowski is a composer, performer, and Senior Lecturer in Music for Digital Games at the University of Liverpool. He also serves as Subject Lead for the Game Design and Game Design Studies programmes.Paul's research examines intersections of game design/gameplay and musical composition/performance. This includes the employment of digital games as interactive musical scores as well as the creation of video games that afford musical authorship to the player. His creative work has been performed by ensembles such as Dither, Ekmeles, and the Ligeti Quartet; has been presented at events such as the annual conference of the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, the Kyma International Sound Symposium and the International Conference on Technologies of Notation and Representation; and has been featured on such websites as Cycling74.com and animatednotation.com.

H3   

digital game-piece for 3 pitched instruments, 2025

Three musicians become live players inside a shared, XP-driven score: one locks the pulse, one steers the harmonic map with sustained tones, one “activates” orbiting planets through scale-bound improvisation. Roles rotate every cycle while silent AI agents harvest experience points,reshaping the grid and forcing human tactics to mutate. The result is a volatile arcade of flickering modalities, elastic grooves and unexpected alliances—contemporary chamber music re-coded as cooperative speed-run.  

5-GeGETet: Orkhon_Stream

Composer: Aigerim Seilova

Erhu: Wu Siyao

Zhonghu: Yang Manting

Sheng: Kong Jiayi

Gaohu: Ma Yixin

Aigerim Seilova

Composer & media artist | Hamburg

Kazakhstan-born; alumnus Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory & HfMT Hamburg.

Operas to sensor-driven installations performed by Ensemble Modern, Boston Symphony, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Badische Staatskapelle at Schleswig-Holstein, Schwetzingen Mozart and Chelsea NY festivals.

Hindemith Prize laureate; Deutsche Bank “Akademie Musiktheater Heute” scholar; deputy chair, German Composers’ Association Hamburg.

GeGETet: Orkhon_Stream 

for erhu, gaohu, zhonghu, sheng, Chinese drum & video score, 2025  

A musical archaeology in streaming form: ancient Turkic runes meet the HTTP GET request.

Five players read a colour-coded video score—green erhu, yellow gaohu, orange zhonghu, blue sheng, red drum—where glyphs appear, loop and vanish like browser cache.

No metre, no fixed pitch: only timbral gestures that inscribe, erase and overwrite themselves against a fixed electro-acoustic backdrop.

The result is a broken, layered torrent in which memory is downloaded, performed, then instantly refreshed.

6-Pannotia 

Composer: Lindsay Vickery

Bass flute: Cat Hope

Viola: Aaron

Bass clarinet: Lindsay

Zheng: Zhihui

Percussion: Yang Zhiyao

Tectonic – Pannotia

distributed dynamic score for 20+ players, 2025

A single tectonic plate drifting across global networks: musicians in five cities open the Decibel Scoreplayer on their tablets and receive real-time text, shape and state prompts broadcast from Perth.  No fixed notation—only fluid instructions such as “grains → liquid → plasma,” “tutti hits,” or “shadow in contrary motion.”  Each performer becomes a free electron within an ever-shifting lattice of noise, wind, sonar and morse-code textures, guided by register bands and a crawling red timeline.  The ten-minute result is a sonic super-continent that assembles, erodes and disperses in the same breath.

7-Tara

Tara Community

Presented by Cat Hope

Tara

composed by the community at Tara, Northern Territory, Australia.

Performed by Decibel with special guests from Monash University and the Central Conservatory.

Cello: Ren Baoyi  Percussion: Yang Zhiyao

   Earlier this year, Decibel commissioned Australian musical innovator Jon Rose to collaborate with the DIgiScore project to create a digital score. He chose to work with a community of Kaytetye children in Tara, a small town of around 60 people in central Australia. Tara was established to provide a key important link in the first telegraph line connecting Australia and the rest of the world in 1872.

He asked the children to tell a story about the idea of the telegraph using images that would be read as music by the Decibel new music ensemble. Most of the pieces include morse code as a reference to the towns origin,, sometimes representing specific messages, some in the local language of that community. I orchestrated these 9 drawings into short pieces across the ensemble.

8-Solaris 2

Composer: Craig Vear

Craig Vear

Solaris 2 (AKA "Extensors") is the next generation AI Jazz trio. 

Solaris is a flow-based, post-modern, free, math-AI jazz trio led by the musician Craig Vear.

The AI used here has been developed over many years and is part of the creative journey of this group. 

It is a creative and expressive statement.

The trio is piano, bass and drums/ drum-machine performed by AI and a single human-in-the-loop on drums.

The visual score, created by Fabrizio Poltronieri, is designed to express the internal processes of the

AI, offering the outside world a sense of liveness. It is presented as poetic graphics that stimulate 

connections and bonding with the human musician and audience through the flow of the music. 

Ultimately, the system as a whole (AI, visuals, humans) is seeking to reach a state of emergence, 

togetherness and freedom with the AI having a voice in the nature of the music.