Composer Mentor – Cat Hope
Cat Hope is a composer and performer who creates music that is conceptually driven, in animated graphic scores formats for acoustic/electronic combinations and improvisations. Her music is characterised by aleatoric elements, drone, noise, and glissandi as well as an ongoing fascination with low-frequency sound that threads through all her creative work. Her works have been performed at festivals internationally, broadcast on Australian, German, Italian, French, and Austrian radio, and recordings of her works are published internationally. She maintains a collaborative practice that sees her work with dance, theatre, film, and installation. Cat is a represented composer with the Australian Music Centre, and her music is published by Material Press. Her first opera, Speechless, won the Best New Dramatic work in the 2020 Art Music Awards.
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"“Our House on Fire” was the opening line of a speech by Greta Thunberg, a 16year old Swedish activist, at the World Economic Forum in Geneva in early 2019. Each instrument in this work does what is not normal that it do: sustained, dark tones on the toy piano, sustained, variable and difficult to control cymbal and bass sounds. These are interspersed with more ‘native’ sounds: but the work explores the idea of trying to change, challenging systems do things they were not necessarily designed to do, pushing up against established systems. This work was composed during the residency with Clocked Out and is written especially for them. World Premiere Performance. Erik Griswold - Broken Toy Piano, Cat Hope - Electric Bass, Vanessa Tomlinson - Cymbals. Performed 2 August 2019 as part of the event "Carcasses of Angels" at Queensland Conservatorium. Video by Tangible Media"Cat Hope