…Who is Cat Hope
Cat Hope is an accomplished composer, sound artist, performer, songwriter and noise artist whose practice is an interdisciplinary one that crosses over into video and installation. She has written soundcsapes for dance and theatre companies as well as completed commissions to write music for film (winning the Pandora’s Box Film Festival Best Score award in 2000) and pure music works.
Cat is a classically trained flautist, but also a vocalist and experimental bassist who plays as a soloist and as part of small ensembles, such as Gata Negra, Lux Mammoth, the noise improvisation bass quartet Abe Sada and new music ensemble Decibel. She has directed and edited numerous short music videos and created audiovisual installations.
Cat is an active researcher and has conducted extensive funded research into communication technologies, audio recording in forensics, noise notation and surveillance techniques for use in performance, and maintains an active interest in challenging the relationship of image and sound. She is part of the sound art research collective Metaphonica, and has a small music label and production company, Bloodstar . Cat is the founder of the Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference and editor of the associated proceedings, Sound Scripts.
She is a PhD candidate in SOUND at RMIT University where she is looking at creating music that focuses on low frequency sound and lectures at WAAPA, ECU in music technology, 20th century music history and composition.