Cat Hope

Background

About Cat Hope

Cat Hope is an artist and academic with an active profile as a composer and performer in music groups Internationally. She is an internationally recognised researcher of digital music notation, experimental music, gender equity in music and digital archiving. Cat is Professor of Music at Monash University, Melbourne and is the director of the award winning new music ensemble and research team, Decibel. Cat has composed over 60 musical works, including a major opera, a number of film scores and a range collaborations with visual artists.Cat is the co-author of the book ‘Digital Arts - An introduction to New Media’ (Bloomsbury, 2014), co-editor of 'Contemporary Musical Virtuosities'(Rougtledge, 2004) and has partnered on a range of grants, including projects funded by the European Research Council, the Australian Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Creative Australia.Cat’s composition and performance practice has been discussed in books such as Sonic Writing,(Magnusson, 2019), Hidden Alliances (Schimanna, 2019), Loading the Silence (Kouvaris, 2013), Women of Note (Appleby, 2012), Sounding Postmodernism (Bennett, 2011), academic journals such as Tempo and Organised Sound, as well as periodicals such as Gramophone, The Wire, Limelight and Neu Zeitschrift Fur Musik Shaft.