Bass Noise
Cat Hope is fascinated with low frequency sound. She is doing a PhD in it, has solo career doing it, and plays in bands with two (the now defunct Lux Mammoth) to four (Abe Sada) and even more (Abe Sada Redux) bass guitars. Her now defunct indi-pop band Gata Negra wrote all songs on the bass guitar.
This is a music that has physical, as well as aural, aspects.
Based in Perth, Cat also composes on commission for contemporary dance, theatre, art installation and film. Her works have been toured extensively, 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’d never imagined possible. For more info follow the links above this area of text.