…Who is Cat Hope
“..music of great psychological and theatrical impact..” Chris Reid, Realtime.
Cat Hope is a composer, sound artist, performer, songwriter and noise artist. 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 (winning the AMC/APRA National Award for Excellence in Experimental Music in 2011).
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, free improv duo Candied Limbs and new music ensemble Decibel. She has directed and edited numerous short music videos, created audiovisual installations and often works with dance choreographers.
Cat is an active researcher and has conducted extensive funded research into new scoring technologies, graphic scores, communication technologies, audio recording in forensics, noise notation and surveillance techniques for use in performance, and maintains an active interest in challenging boundries of composition, sound art and improvisation. Cat is the founder of the Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference and editor of the associated proceedings, Sound Scripts. She is also the founder and director of the Australian Bass Orchestra.
She completed a PhD from RMIT University entitled ‘The Possibility of Infrasonic Music’ and was head of composition and music technology at WAAPA, ECU 2004- 2011, and has now taken a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship position at that same university. She won the ECU Vice Chancellors Award for excellence in teaching and learning in the arts and humanities, and was nominated for her contribution to WA tertiary music education at the APRA/AMC Art Music Awards that same year. She was a finalist for the 2011 Western Australian Citizen of the Year Awards, in the Art, Culture and Entertainment Category.
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