Cat Hope is a solo noise artist with a difference - she uses bass guitar. Based in Perth, where she performs regularly in her noise outfit LUX MAMMOTH and band GATA NEGRA, Cat also composes on commission for contemporary dance, theatre and film. Her works have been toured extensivley, and the inclusion of one of her compositions on the Susan Lawly EXTREME MUSIC FROM WOMEN compilation early in 2000 (there is a sample of the track on that site) led her to develop her solo bass noise performances and subsequently tour the USA., UK and Australia. Cat has also performed as a noise artist with Ikue Mori, Stellarc, KK Null, Jon Rose (see her contibution to the Australia Ad Lib site) and Tony Buck, and has completed albums with her band Gata Negra, Lux Mammoth, and contributed to albums by artists such as Lawrence English, Zipperspy and others. Recordings of her works have been released internationally, and her only solo bass album to date FETISH has been released in Australia and the USA. Her music is languid and distorted, personal and disquieting, featuring endless bass loops, feedback, static noise and generally a bass guitar used in ways you Œd never imagined possible.

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