Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Cat is an academic with an active profile as a composer, sound artist and musician. She is the director of the award winning music ensemble, Decibel, and has toured internationally. Her composition and performance practices explore the physicality of sound in different media, and her compositions have been recorded for Australian, German and Austrian national radio, with her work being awarded numerous prizes including the APRA/AMC Award for Excellence in Experimental Music. Cat has collaborated with Australian visual artists such as Tracy Moffat, Kate McMillan, Erin Coates and Tina Havelock-Stevens, and she has written work for the London Improvisers Orchestra amongst others.
Supervision interests
Professor Cat Hope maintains her practice as a composer, musician, sound artist, curator and artistic director of the Decibel music ensemble. Research interests include graphic and animated notation, electronic music performance practice, low frequency sound, Australian contemporary music, digital music archiving, improvisation, noise music, gender equity, and music technologies. Hope has strengths in supervising projects that engage artistic research and projects that work with industry partners.
As someone who maintains a current performance and composition profile, Hope enjoys collaborating with industry partners as well as engaging in more traditional research. Hope welcomes working with a broad range of postgraduate projects and taking part in research culture.
Completed PhDs include:
- "Spectromorphology and Spatiomorphology: Wave Terrain Synthesis as a Framework for Controlling Timbre Spatialisation in the Frequency Domain." Stuart James.
- "Pedagogy in Performance: An Investigation into Decision Training as a Cognitive Approach to Circus Training." Jon Burtt
- "Music In Site: Interating Elements of Site -specificity into Composition." Mace Francis
- "Sighting Circus: Perceptions of Circus Phenomena investigated through Diverse Bodies" Katie Lavers
- "What remains is the Book: The Idea of the Book in and around Electronic Space." Adam Simonato
- 'Writing as Dancing: The Dancer in you Hands: A Novella" Jo Pollit"
- "The Grain of the Digital Workstation" Michael Terren
- "Giving voice to the extra-normal self with the extra-normal voice: Improvised exploration through the realms of shamanic chaos magick, insight meditation and gender performance" Sage Harlow
- "Re-Composing Feminism: Australian Women Composers in the New Millennium". Talisha Goh
Community service
Cat Hope's Impact and Engagement profile is extensive, and includes:
- 2019 Appearance at the Melbourne Writes Festival, with Karina Utomo,in 'Duets' series.
- 2018 Peggy Glanville Hicks Address in Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide
- 2018 Keynote at the International Conference on Technologies of Music notation and representation, Montral, Canada.
- 2017 Keynote given at the Women in the Creative Arts Conference, ACT
- 2016 Keynote given at the International Sound & Music Computing Conference, Germany
- 2015 Keynote given at the Australasian Computer Music Conference in Sydney, Australia
Cat also serves on a number of industry panels, including Vice President of the Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (2019 - ), Peer panel member of Cretive Victoria (2018-), Bloomsbury Popular Music editorial advisory board (2019-), Bundanon Trust (2018-), APRA Professional Development Awards (2017-), Vice President of the Australasian Computer Music Assocation (2014-2019)); Witness for the Senate Enquiry into Federal Arts Funding (2016), and as a Peer Panel Member to the Australian Council for the Arts' music and experimental arts panels over a number of years since 2008.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
College of Experts, Australian Research Council (ARC)
2017 → 2019
Research area keywords
- Music Composition
- Music Performance
- Australian Music
- Electronic Composition
- Improviser
- Experimental music
- Sound artist
- Audio Technologies
- Musical Archiving
- Performance Art
- Music Theory
- Musical Curation
Network
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Hamburg Insitute of Advanced Studies Research Fellowship
Hamburg Institute of Advanced Studies
1/09/22 → 31/05/23
Project: Research
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DigiScore: Digital Scores – investigating the technological transformation of the music score
Vear, C., Hope, C., Baghwati, S., Fields, K. & Xiaobing, L.
1/10/21 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
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Diversifying Music in Australia: Gender Equity in Jazz and Improvisation
Burke, R., S. Barrett, M., Hall, C., Hope, C., Devenish, L. & Canham, N.
1/05/21 → 30/04/24
Project: Research
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Decibel as part of the Australia/UK Season
Hope, C., Devenish, L. & Wyatt, A.
1/08/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Decibel Remote Recordings
Hope, C., Wyatt, A., Devenish, L., Vickery, L., James, S. & Parr, T.
14/12/20 → 26/11/21
Project: Research
Research output
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Gender as performance, experience, identity and, variable: A systematic review of gender research in jazz and improvisation
Canham, N., Goh, T., Barrett, M. S., Hope, C., Devenish, L., Park, M., Burke, R. L. & Hall, C. A., 28 Nov 2022, In: Frontiers in Education. 7, 14 p., 987420.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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Animated percussive notation: Perspectives from three practitioners
Devenish, L., Hope, C. & Wyatt, A., 2020, In: Percussive Notes. 2020, p. 8-12 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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Decibel telematic performances
Hope, C., Devenish, L. & Wyatt, A., 2020Research output: Non-textual form › Music Performance › Research
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Decibel Telematic Performances - GAS Festival
Hope, C., Devenish, L. & Wyatt, A., 17 Oct 2020Research output: Non-textual form › Music Performance › Other
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Decibel Telematic Performances - Piteå Performing Arts Biennial
Hope, C., Devenish, L. & Wyatt, A., 27 Oct 2020Research output: Non-textual form › Music Performance › Other
Prizes
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APRA AMC Art Awards: Award for Excellence in Experimental Music
Hope, Cat (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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APRA AMC Art Awards: Victorian State Award for Excellence by an Individual
Hope, Cat (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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APRA AMC Art Music Awards: Inaugural Award for Excellence in Experimental Music
Hope, Cat (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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APRA AMC Art Music Awards: State Award for Excellence (Western Australia)
Hope, Cat (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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APRA AMC Art Music Awards Best New Work Dramatic
Hope, Cat (Recipient), 8 Sep 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Panel member - European Science Foundation (ESF) College of Experts (2021-)
Cat Hope (Fellow)
2022 → 2025Activity: External Academic Engagement › Grant review responsibilities
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President - Technologies of Music Notation and Representation Conference Committee
Cat Hope (Fellow)
2021 → 2024Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups
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Council for Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (External organisation)
Cat Hope (Member)
2021 → 2024Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board
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Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Cat Hope (Editorial board member)
2019 → 2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Australian Alliance for Wellness in Entertainment Advisory Committee (External organisation)
Cat Hope (Member)
2019 → 2022Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board
Press / Media
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REVOLUTION BY DECIBEL (TURA NEW MUSIC)
Cat Hope, Aaron Kenneth Wyatt & Ryan Ross Smith
3/12/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Review
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The Last Days Of Reality by Lionel Marchetti & Cat Hope
Cat Hope, Aaron Kenneth Wyatt, Lindsay Vickery, Louise Devenish, Stuart James & Tristen Parr
14/11/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Review
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CAT HOPE TO GIVE PEGGY GLANVILLE-HICKS ADDRESS
14/10/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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review of Digital Arts - An INtroduction to New Media, by Cat Hope and John Ryan
3/08/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Review