Research
Cat has been involved in several research projects, as outlined below. There is a list of the papers written by the artist if you scroll down the page, and there are also in the Cat Hope Academic CV .
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
2010 – winner of the RMIT University ResearchPrize for outstanding thesis.
2009 – Paper on Infrasonic Music published in Leonardo Music Journal Vol 17, available here.
Convened the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Totally Huge New Music Festival Conferences. Editor of related journal, SoundScripts, published by the Australian Msuic Centre, 3 volumes to date.
2009 – Awarded the Veronica Kelly Prize – for the Best Postgraduate Paper presented at an ADSA conference.
2009 – Book Chapter “Cultural terrorism and anti-music: Noise music and its impact on experimental music in Australia” published in Experimental Music – Audio explorations in Australia, edited by Gail Preist. More information here.
2008 – Attended and presented at the 13th international conference on Low Frequency Noise and Vibration, Tokyo, Japan.
Awarded Edith Cowan internal Industry collaboration grant entitled: The Western Australia New Music Archive: 1970 – 2000: Unearthing, remembering, performing. With Tura New Music. AUD$28 000 awarded, $15 000 industry sponsorship. Chief Investigator.
ARC LEIF LINKAGE, $850 000 co CI with Prof. Roger Dean, UWS. The Australian Music Navigator: research infrastructure for discovering, accessing and analysing Australia’s musical landscape.
PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
Hope, C. (Ed.). (2011). Decibel: Audible designs. Perth, WA: PICA Press. Purchase it here
Refereed Journal Articles
Hope, C., & Vickery, L. (in press, submitted 22 March 2011). Visualising the Score: Screening scores in Realtime Performance. IM E Journal, Murdoch University.
Hope. C. (2010). Vibrating performance: Experiencing music though vibration in the works of Abe Sada. Australasian Drama Studies, 56, 170-182.
Hope, C. (2009). Infrasonic music. Leonardo Music Journal, 19, 51-56.Read it here
Hope, C. (2009). The wonderment of the bleak: Sculpting the static. Art Monthly, 225, 45-47.
Refereed Conference Papers
Hope, C. & Gillies, S. (2011). Manifesting meaning from a performance of cruelty:Parallels in the Musical Experimentalism of Antonin Artaud and Sub Ordnance. Sound Scripts – Proceedings of the Totally Huge New Music Festival (pp. 31-36), Vol 3. AMC Press. Purchase this entire jounral here
Hope, C. & Tan, K. (2011) Spatialising Threads/Hallucinations: Closing the gap between installation and performance.Sound Scripts – Proceedings of the Totally Huge New Music Festival (pp. 43-52), Vol 3. AMC Press. Purchase this entire jounral here
Hope, C. (2011). The composer and the machine: organic processes and musicality in computer programming for music. Australasian Computer Music Conference, The School of Music University of Auckland, New Zealand. Read it here
Hope, C. & Vickery, L. Screen scores: New media music manuscripts. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference , Huddersfield, UK, July, 2011. pp 224 – 231. Read it here
Hope, C., & James, S. (2011). Multidimensional data sets: Traversing synthesis, sound sculpture, and scored composition. Australasian Computer Music Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
Hope, C. (2011). Reinterpreting technology and concert techniques for electronic instruments in chamber music performance. XVII CIM, AIMI, Torino, Italy. Read it here
Hope, C. (2010). The Western Australia New Music Archive 1970 – today: Accessing, remembering, performing. AHA Biennial Conference 2010 ‘Reviewing History’, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA.
Hope, C. (in press, accepted 4/3/11). Music to feel: Revising the listening experience with low frequency sound. Australasian Musicological Society Conference 2010, Otago, New Zealand.
Hope, C., James, S. Tan, K. (2010). When lines become bits: Engaging digital technology to perform works by Alvin Lucier. Australasian Computer Music Conference (pp. 29-36), Canberra, ACT. Read it here
Hope, C. (2009). Earth pulse: Vibrational data as artistic inspiration. Re:Live Media Art histories 2009 Refereed Conference Proceedings (pp. 73-77), The University of Melbourne & Victorian College of the Arts and Music. Read it here
Hope, C., & Riddoch, M. (2009). The vanishing bass: Possible implications of internet centric delivery and listening on bass perception (pp. 48-52). Createworld Conference Proceedings 2009, Queensland, Apple Consortium Australia. Read it here.
Hope, C., Riddoch, M., & James, S. (2009). Musical Technology / Technological Music: Teaching Electronic Music in the Academy. Media Art Scoping Study Symposium Proceedings (pp. 80-89), VCA, Melbourne University.Read it here
Hope, C. (2009). The Nth art: The state of the sonic image. Sound Scripts – Proceedings of the Totally Huge New Music Festival (pp. 15-19), Vol 2. AMC Press.
Hope, C. (2008). The possibility of infrasonic music. 13th International Conference on Low Frequency Sound and Vibration (pp. 67-79), Japan, October 2008. Read it here.
Hope C. (2008). The bottom end of cinema: Low frequency effects in soundtrack composition. Sound Scripts – Proceedings of the Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival (pp.74-78), Vol. 2. AMC Press: Sydney. Read it here
Hope, C. (2007). Silence as stillness? Sonic experiences in art using infrasonics. Stillness – Computers in Art and Design Conference Proceedings (pp.118 – 122), Curtin University, 12-14 September 2007.Read it here
Hope, C. (2007). Making music as contemporary art. Hatched 07 Discussion Papers (pp 48 – 51), Hatched 07 Arts Research Symposium, 20 April 2007.
Hope, C. (2007). Composing music with low frequency sound. Crossing Continents Composers Symposium, University of WA. Invited Paper.
Hope, C. (2007). Online environments for new music composition: The WAAPA composers server. Createworld Conference, Brisbane.
Hope, C. (2006). Composing experimental music for film and video. VFx Conference, Bysteria Banksia Art Academy, Slovakia.
Other
Hope, C. (2007). Learning art with i-pods. Createworld Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane.
Hope, C. (2007). Online environments for new music composition – the WAAPA Composers Server. Createworld Conference, Brisbane.
Hope, C. (2006). Composing experimental music for film and video. VFx Conference, Bysteria Banksia Art Academy, Slovakia
- Editorial and two ‘in conversation articles’ with Anthony Pateras and Lindsay Vickery in RESONATE journal, vol 3. read it here.
-”Critical Mass: Sound, Story and Music in Cronenberg’s Crash”, Ballardian.com Read it here
-”Sound art : Mobile art”, 2005, Totally Huge New Music Inagural Conference Read it here
- “Hearing the Story:Sound Design in the Films of Rolf de Heer”, 2004, Senses of Cinema Magazine. Read it here
- “Transmediale Berlin 2006″ Filter , Lo Fi vs Hi Tech Read it here
- “cAVity – sound and video working together without the square screen” Australia Computer Music Conference, WA , 2003. Co-written with Anne Walton. Read it here
- “A Wardrobe Of D.A.C.S- The Development Of An Interactive Garment” Australia Computer Music Conference, WA, 2003.
Read it here
-”ISEA 2002″ Report for ANAT. Read it here
- “New Ways of Thinking- Sound Performance Spaces for the New Century” PIAF Celestial City Program, presented at AGWA, 2002 Read it here