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“While I've been involved in some big productions before, including the premieres of Cat Hope's opera Speechless in the 2019 Perth International Arts Festival and Gina Williams' and Guy G'house's new opera Koolbardi Wer Wardong last year, this opportunity with the MSO represents such a huge step forward, both for me as an individual and for Indigenous representation in Australian classical music.” - Aaron Wyatt
This week's episode of DECLASSIFY welcomes on board someone whose research and collaborative-interdisciplinary approach to music making has influenced my own practice since I attended her composition seminar as a Conservatoire student back in 2015. This is none other than prolific composer, musician, performer and noise artist and currently Professor of Music at Monash University, composer and performer Professor Cat Hope. Described by Gramaphone Magazine as “one of Australia's most exciting and individual creative voices,” Cat creates music, art and performances that are conceptually driven ranging from animated graphic scores for acoustic and electronic combinations and for improvisation, with a fascination with low frequency sound. Paired with her research practice and her artistic direction of Decibel ensemble, Cat's academic research engages with contemporary Australian music, digital music, noise music, gender equity and music technology. With such multi-faceted experience and expertise, this episode explores exclusive new music groups, how to break boundaries, the effect of marketing and what it means to make music collaboratively. Resources:Cat Hope website: https://www.cathope.com/ https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/cat-hope FOLLOW DECLASSIFY: @declassifypodcast on instagramCONNECT WITH VICTORIA: Instagram : @victoriaavpham
Intro: Serene Ailment Incantation Praxis from cold_storage Clinton Green Here? / Secret (excerpts) (2021)Here?/Secret is a new work of tape compositions reimagining voice and the reverberant influence of collaboration, by Australian experimental musician Clinton Green.Voices include Jen Callaway, Chun-liang Liu, Michael McNab, Shani Mohini-Holmes, Elnaz Sheshgelani, Tony Yap, and others unknown/anonymous.Composed/constructed by Clinton Green Nov 2020 – Aug 2021. Cat Hope Fetish (2001) #1 - 7This is Cat Hope's debut noise album, first released Bergerk, (2000) then on Bloodstar, (2001) and later on US label Menschenfeild. Francisco López NO [original soundtrack] (excerpts) 2021NO' - Original film soundtrack by francisco lNO' - Original film soundtrack by francisco lópez‘NO' - A film by Santiago Sierra
Haruka Hirayama created a piece entitled "Tsumotta Yuki" for the 2 Minutes From Home series of new music commissions, performed by the Decibel New Music Ensemble. Haruka talks to Decibel artistic director Cat Hope from her home in Tokyo, Japan, in the last of the series.
Amanda Stewart created a piece entitled "Soup (Tautology 12)" for the 2 Minutes From Home" series of new music commissions, performed by the Decibel New Music Ensemble. Amanda talks to Decibel artistic director Cat Hope about the basis of this piece and life in Sydney during COVID 19.
J.G. Thirlwell created a piece entitled "Angel of Retribution" for the 2 Minutes From Home" series of new music commissions, performed by the Decibel New Music Ensemble. JG talks to Decibel artistic director Cat Hope.
Pedro Alvarez created a piece entitled "Chronotype Situation No. 2" for the 2 Minutes From Home" series of new music commissions, performed by the Decibel New Music Ensemble. Pedro talks to Decibel artistic director Cat Hope about his work and a composers life during a pandemic.
Thembi Sodell created a piece entitled "Let Go of Control" for the 2 Minutes From Home" series of new music commissions, performed by the Decibel New Music Ensemble. Thembi talks to Decibel artistic director Cat Hope from regional Victoria, Australia.
Cat Hope created a piece entitled "Delay taints" for the 2 Minutes From Home" series of new music commissions, performed by the Decibel New Music Ensemble. Cat talks to the performers Tristen Parr (cello) and Laura Boynes (dance) in this episode.
Marina Rosenfeld created a piece entitled "a martial exercise in togetherness" for the 2 Minutes From Home" series of new music commissions, performed by the Decibel New Music Ensemble. Marina talks to artistic director Cat Hope from New York.
Lionel Marchetti created a piece entitled "La Patience" for the 2 Minutes From Home" series of new music commissions, for the Decibel New Music Ensemble. Lionel talks to artistic director of Decibel, Cat Hope about the work and his approach.
Daniel Thorpe is second composer to be featured in the "2 Minutes From Home" series of new music commissions for the Decibel New Music Ensemble. Daniel talks to artistic director of Decibel, Cat Hope about their composition.
Louise Devenish is the first composer to be featured in the "2 Minutes From Home" series of new music commissions for the Decibel New Music Ensemble. Louise talks to artistic director of Decibel, Cat Hope about her piece, 'Taut'.
10 creative musicians from around the country expand your music collection with some great new releases and old faves.
10 creative musicians from around the country expand your music collection with some great new releases and old faves.
Listen to Cat Hope's wordless opera, inspired by The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention.
Listen to Cat Hope's wordless opera, inspired by The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention.
Cat Hope and singer-collaborators talk about her wordless opera that aims to give voice to the voiceless.
Cat Hope and singer-collaborators talk about her wordless opera that aims to give voice to the voiceless.
0:00 - Vetv - "Before Night Falls" 04:43 - Blear Moon - "Laps" 13:50 - Banibila + Machinefabriek - "Unearth" 20:54 - Robert Farrugia - "Textures" 26:06 - Dolphin Midwives - "Temple VII" 31:50 - Koonta Tanimur - "Call that Art" 34:36 - Tonga Boys - "Nakhala Nekha" 40:33 - Garibe - "Paste" 46:23 - Personal Bandana - "Hollow Soft" 51:55 - Lionel Marchetti & Cat Hope (performed by Decibel) - "The Last Days of Reality"
Composer Cat Hope has been described as “a superstar of Australian new music” best known for her graphic scores and new score-reading technologies. It's fascinating to wonder how the daughter of a military family with no especial leaning towards the arts has ended up being an internationally recognised authority on experimental music. Despite the bass guitar being her first love (instrumentally speaking), Cat Hope began as a flautist - it was the main instrument through which she achieved her undergraduate degree at the University of Western Australia. She has always been a political animal, and described herself in her university days as being, to all intents and purposes - “a punk” - studying classical music by day and attending thrash gigs and engaging in active anarchic action by night. Yet it was at UWA that Cat's ears were first tuned to new (experimental) music, where she realised that classical and new music are not completely separate…that new classical music is often an outcome of new political happenings and that some of it sounded a lot like the punk music she was already listening to. A long time spent in Europe, particularly in the heady days of post Wall Berlin, Cat refined her bass playing, learned how to write a solid pop tune and finally settled back in Perth in 1997, continuing to play and compose in her groundbreaking style here despite the creative brain drain and cultural cringe of the time, forming bands including Gata Negra, Lux Mammoth and Decibel. Two decades later, as an established member of the local, national and international arts community, one (as she says) with “the privilege of a full time job”, Cat Hope has visibly returned to her political roots, taking a stand against the Federal Government's severe funding cuts to the arts and actively promoting women in the new music arena. In 2017 Cat takes up a brilliant new appointment as Head of the Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music at Monash University in Melbourne. Find examples of Cat Hope's music here on her BandCamp page. Three Gates Media thanks Cat immensely for this conversation. This episode of Rare Air was recorded in 2016 at the studios of RTRFM 92.1 in Mount Lawley, WA Mixed by Adrian Sardi of Sugarland Studios Music "The Summit" by Blue Dot Sessions from freemusicarchive.org
New works by emerging composers Olivia Davies, Carmen Chan Schoenborn and Rachel Bruerville.
New works by emerging composers Olivia Davies, Carmen Chan Schoenborn and Rachel Bruerville.
An extended conversation and studio recital with Phoebe Green featuring music by Liza Lim, Cat Hope, Lisa Illean, Alistair Noble, James Rushford and Helen Gifford.
An extended conversation and studio recital with Phoebe Green featuring music by Liza Lim, Cat Hope, Lisa Illean, Alistair Noble, James Rushford and Helen Gifford.
In this episode you’ll hear: Composer: Cat Hope Website: www.cathope.com interviewed by: Leah Blankendaal Website: www.leahblankendaal.com This conversation was recorded in 2016 in Cat’s home in North Perth, WA. Show Notes “I guess the key thing to understand about my music is that I’m not interested in pulse. And I’m really interested aleatoric processes, especially around pitch.” … Continue reading Making Conversation, Episode 29: Leah Blankendaal interviews Cat Hope
Meet Alex Turley and Mitchell Mollison, two of the five young composers at the 2016 Soundstream Emerging Composers Forum. Along with forum composer-mentor Cat Hope, they discuss their music, inspiration and creative journeys.
Meet Alex Turley and Mitchell Mollison, two of the five young composers at the 2016 Soundstream Emerging Composers Forum. Along with forum composer-mentor Cat Hope, they discuss their music, inspiration and creative journeys.
Emerging music journalists and composers Lisa Cheney, Peggy Polias and collaborators interview established composers Joseph Twist, Cat Hope, Timothy Tate and Julian Day about their journeys to composing.
Emerging music journalists and composers Lisa Cheney, Peggy Polias and collaborators interview established composers Joseph Twist, Cat Hope, Timothy Tate and Julian Day about their journeys to composing.
Composer Cat Hope has been described as “a superstar of Australian new music” best known for her graphic scores and new score-reading technologies. It’s fascinating to wonder how the daughter of a military family with no especial leaning towards the arts has ended up being an internationally recognised authority on experimental music. Despite the bass guitar being her first love (instrumentally speaking), Cat Hope began as a flautist - it was the main instrument through which she achieved her undergraduate degree at the University of Western Australia. She has always been a political animal, and described herself in her university days as being, to all intents and purposes - “a punk” - studying classical music by day and attending thrash gigs and engaging in active anarchic action by night. Yet it was at UWA that Cat's ears were first tuned to new (experimental) music, where she realised that classical and new music are not completely separate…that new classical music is often an outcome of new political happenings and that some of it sounded a lot like the punk music she was already listening to. A long time spent in Europe, particularly in the heady days of post Wall Berlin, Cat refined her bass playing, learned how to write a solid pop tune and finally settled back in Perth in 1997, continuing to play and compose in her groundbreaking style here despite the creative brain drain and cultural cringe of the time. Two decades later, as an established member of the local, national and international arts community, one (as she says) with “the privilege of a full time job”, Cat Hope has visibly returned to her political roots, taking a stand against the Federal Government’s severe funding cuts to the arts and actively promoting women in the new music arena. Three Gates Media thanks Cat Hope for sharing some of her story.
Three striking new works for percussion by composers Kate Moore, Cat Hope, and James Hullick.
Three striking new works for percussion by composers Kate Moore, Cat Hope, and James Hullick.
Decibel ensemble present treasures from the archive - electro-acoustic chamber music from one of Perth's founding new musical voices.
Decibel ensemble present treasures from the archive - electro-acoustic chamber music from one of Perth's founding new musical voices.
More immense and immersive spatial electro-acoustic music from Perth-based composers, featuring Cat Hope, Stuart James, and program curator Steve Paraskos.
More immense and immersive spatial electro-acoustic music from Perth-based composers, featuring Cat Hope, Stuart James, and program curator Steve Paraskos.
A program of new music for piano and electronics full of electronic doubling, shadowing and transformations, performed in concert by Zubin Kanga.
A program of new music for piano and electronics full of electronic doubling, shadowing and transformations, performed in concert by Zubin Kanga.
Part two of a special broadcast event from the Australasian Computer Music Conference featuring new works by Cat Hope, Michael Terren and Ros Bandt.
Part two of a special broadcast event from the Australasian Computer Music Conference featuring new works by Cat Hope, Michael Terren and Ros Bandt.
A special broadcast event from the Australasian Computer Music Conference featuring new works by Eve Klein, Mitchell Mollison, Brigid Burke, Nigel Helyer, Michael Atherton and Jon Drummond.
A special broadcast event from the Australasian Computer Music Conference featuring new works by Eve Klein, Mitchell Mollison, Brigid Burke, Nigel Helyer, Michael Atherton and Jon Drummond.