August and September bring plenty of bass noise collaborations as well as world premieres for Decibel.
Exciting announcment about Super Luminum at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival later this year.
At the end of this month, there will be two performances that showcase the work I have done with French composers Éliane Radigue and Lionel Marchetti since 2012 to date. There is something about this music that keeps me re-engaging with the composers.
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Over 6 days, I was fortunate enough to work with Clocked Out and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music at Griffith University as composer in residence. This involved the creation of a new work, the preparation of extant works of my own for performance, workshopping new compositions by members of Clocked Out, meetings and a presentation at The Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre.
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Attending the wonderful collection of live electronic music that was Borderlands at Dark Mofo last month was a highlight of that festival. It also got me thinking about electronic music performance, and in particular, two artists in that night that held a special relationship to their equipment on stage, Stephen O'Malley and Kusum Normoyle.
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July is shaping up to be a busy month, full of composition, performance and public speaking. The month begins with the opening of sound art installation Sub Decorative Sequences at Linden New Art Gallery.
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Friday 28 June saw the opening of three new sound art works at Linden New Art gallery, in St Kilda, Melbourne, of which mine was one. The other artists are Mona Ruijs and Lucreccia Quintanila
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June's updates about awards, compositions, exhibitions, performances and writing.
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There are several events coming up in May after a month of creative work and recovery from Speechless!
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"Its avant-garde style, heavy emotional impact, and difficult subject matter challenge audiences to not only observe some heavily topical sequences, but also interpret a great deal of meaning from a wordless vocal score that disrupts conventional expectations of words and melody. "
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Working toward our opening night in less than a week. Directing and composing - realising what a large project it is!
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In November Cat gave the annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address in Melbourne, Perth, and Adelaide, accompanied by performances of a new collaborative work with Dobromila Jaskot for voice and electronics, performed by Karina Utomo.
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Cat's work for chamber ensemble U Mangibeddu Nostru was premiered in Perth in December at Decibel New Music Ensemble's Revolution: A Concert Dedicated To The Vinyl Record.
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Cat Hope's work will feature alongside other composers such as Liza Lim, Lisa Illean, Alistair Noble, James Rushford and Helen Gifford, in the New Waves podcast episode focusing on Phoebe Green's work as a violist in new music.
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Cat recently talked with Stephanie Eslake about gender, sound art, and the work of Éliane Radigue for Cut Common. Cat and Stephanie talk about many things, including Cat’s travels to Paris to work and learn with Éliane.
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Cat's talk 'Stepping Aside: Gender equality and privilege in Australian Music Culture' was presented as part of the Creative Exchange Institute at UTas in Hobart, Tasmania. The talk will be repeated in Adelaide in July as part of the Festival of Ideas.
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