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Cat Hope : Represented Artist

'Music for me is part of a larger abstract schema; it is driven by conceptual ideas and the exploration of the possible qualities of sound'.

Random Audio Sample: The Shadow of Mill : cello solo by Cat Hope, from the CD Decibel


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Artist website: http://www.cathope.com

Cat Hope (b1966) is an Australian composer, musician, sound artist and researcher. Cat's composition and performance practices are conceptually driven, engaging elements of low frequency sound, drone, noise and improvisation. Her composition practice mostly uses dynamic graphic notation, know as 'animated notation' and has been discussed in publications such as Loading the Silence (Kouvaris, 2013), Women of Note (Appleby, 2012), Sounding Postmodernism (Bennett, 2011) as well as periodicals such as The Wire, Limelight, and Neu Zeitschrift Fur Musik Shaft. Gramaphone magazine in the UK noted Hope as '"one of Australia's most exciting and individual creative voice...a remarkable composer." Gramaphone Magazine UK, 2017.

Her works have been performed at festivals internationally and broadcast on Australian, German, Italian, French and Austrian radio, and has a monograph CD of her compositions out on the Swiss Hat Hut Art labe, which won the German Preis Der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik in 2017. In 2013 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study digital graphic music notations internationally, and is a Civitella Ranieri Fellow (2014). She has undertaken composer residencies at the Visby International Composers Centre, Sweden and the Peggy Glanville Hicks House in Sydney in 2014. She also creates sound for art installation and film - collaborating with artists such as Kate McMillan, Erin Coates, Tracey Moffat and Perun Bonser. She has been a songwriter with 4 albums to her credit, playing in pop bands in Germany, Italy and Australia in the 1990s.

Cat is the director of and performer in the award winning new music ensemble Decibel that focuses on digital graphic notations and the combinations of acoustic and electronic instruments. Her leadership of the ensemble was recognised in the 2011 and 2014 with an National ARPA|AMC Excellence in Experimental Music award. The group has commissioned over 50 new works since its inception in 2009, and has toured Australia, Europe and Japan, and has three albums of new Australian music published to date. She is also the founder of the Australian Bass Orcehstra and plays bass in a variety of groups, such as HzHzHz, Candied Limbs and Super Luminum. As a flute player she has been commissioned to perform new works by Eliane Radigue and Lionel Marchetti.

Cat is currently Professor of music and head of school at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University in Melbourne.

Hope says: 'Music for me is the richest of abstract arts; mine is driven by conceptual ideas, the exploration of the qualities of sound and an ongoing fascination with low frequency sound.'


Cat Hope — current to March 2018

Collaborated with

Lindsay Vickery (1998 - current)

 

Teacher/Influence on

Duncan Gardiner (2004)

Jaslyn Robertson

Awards & Prizes

Year Award Placing Awarded for
2020 Art Music Awards: Work of the Year: Dramatic Joint Winner Speechless
2019 Art Music Awards: Award for Excellence by an Individual Finalist for leadership in the composition, performance and education of new music in Australia
2017 Art Music Awards: Award for Excellence by an Individual Finalist for performance, academia, composition, mentoring and advocacy
2014 Art Music Awards: Award for Excellence in Experimental Music Winner Curator of Drawn From Sound exhibition, showcasing Australian contemporary graphic notation practice
2013 Art Music Awards: Award for Excellence by an Individual Finalist Supporting and growing new music in WA
2013 Art Music Awards: Award for Excellence by an Organisation or an Individual Finalist (Individual) Supporting and growing new music in WA
2011 Art Music Awards: Award for Excellence in Experimental Music Winner Decibel's 2009/2010 Annual Programs
2011 Art Music Awards: Award for Excellence in Music Education Finalist Contribution to Music Education in Western Australia

Selected Commissions

  Work Commission Details
Delay Taints (audiovisual work) (2020) Commissioned as part of the '2 Minutes From Home' project by Decibel New Music
The Dark Hip Falls : A chamber concerto for theremin and chamber ensemble (2019) Commissioned by the APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund.
Digital sheet music sample We Have Become Kin : for piano, dancer and subtone (2019) Commissioned by Alex Raineri.
Digital sheet music sample Submerged in the Greater Will : for 8 part choir, two cellos and electronics (2019) Commissioned by Monash University.
Digital sheet music sample Our House is on Fire : for cymbals, toy piano and bass tones (2019) Commissioned by Clocked Out.
U Mangibeddu Nostru : chamber ensemble (2018) Commissioned by Kate Moore, Eduard van Beinum Foundation for performance by Herz Ensemble.

Analysis & Media

Book: Women of note : the rise of Australian women composers / Rosalind Appleby.

- Article: Untamed melodies at the frontiers of sound

- Article: Hope for WA music

- Article: Sweet sound of decay

- Article: Thunderous noise of classical Cat's bass.

- Article: Velvet Touch

- Video: Our House Is On Fire