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A plea for those who have capacity to support this small arts organisation in our plight to commission, perform and record new Australian music in its 17th year.
In this short piece, I look at the potential of listening as a new way to understand a more complex world where visualisation is holding us back.
This is the second entry about how my compositional tools speak to my core compositional interests, in particular my own system of animated, graphic notation. The last blog addressed reading a line as music notation - this entry talks about how I use, circles in my notation.
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Cat’s composition and performance practices engage elements of low frequency sound, drone, noise, graphic notation and improvisation. Her works have been performed at festivals internationally and broadcast on Australian, German, Italian, French and Austrian radio. She has been a songwriter with some 6 albums to her credit, playing in pop bands in Germany, Italy and Australia in the 1990s. She creates sound for art installation and film - working with Kate McMillian, Erin Coates and Anna Nazzari, Tracey Moffat and Perun Bonser.
Cat Hope has been making sound installations for over 20 years. These have been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Perth Institute of Art, Titank Gallery, Finland, Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallin, Kerb Gallery and Linden.
Collaboration is central to Cat Hope’s artistic and academic practice. She works with visual artists, film makers, other musicians and composers in the creation of new work.
Cat Hope has a live bass noise performance practice that consists of solo shows, duos, small ensembles all the way up to orchestral works.
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VOLUMINUM is a program celebrating the centenary of the birth of Hungarian composer György Ligeti.
Opera composition and direction. Speechless is a 70-minute opera for 4 soloists, community choir and Bass orchestra. It is a wordless, animated notation opera intended as a personal response to the 2014 Human Rights Commission report ‘The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention’.
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Cat Hope is an artist scholar academic with interests in animated notation, Australian music, gender and music and music composition as artistic research. She is currently professor of music and head of school at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University in Melbourne.
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The book explores contemporary notions of musical virtuosity, redeveloping historic concepts and arguing that our present understanding of virtuosity in Western Art Music has shifted from what seemed, for a time, to be a relatively clear and stable definition.