Cat Hope
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Cat Hope is an Australia
n musician and academic, based in Perth
, Western Australia
. She is best known as a noise, installation and performance artist. She was a founder of the legendary Perth noise duo Lux Mammoth; was a singer, songwriter and bassist in dark indie band Gata Negra, and she also performs solo noise music
using bass guitar
. Her current projects include a series of works that focus on low frequency called 'the low grooms' and a bass improv quartet Abe Sada.
Hope lectures in classical music and music technology at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
. In 2000 she was awarded the Pandora's Box Film Festival Award for best film score. In that year her music was included in the Extreme Music From Women
compilation, issued by the Susan Lawly label.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n musician and academic, based in Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
. She is best known as a noise, installation and performance artist. She was a founder of the legendary Perth noise duo Lux Mammoth; was a singer, songwriter and bassist in dark indie band Gata Negra, and she also performs solo noise music
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
using bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
. Her current projects include a series of works that focus on low frequency called 'the low grooms' and a bass improv quartet Abe Sada.
Hope lectures in classical music and music technology at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts , Edith Cowan University was established in 1980 to provide performing arts tuition comparable to the highest calibre of national and international training benchmarks to be able to meet industry needs around the globe.The school is located in the...
. In 2000 she was awarded the Pandora's Box Film Festival Award for best film score. In that year her music was included in the Extreme Music From Women
Extreme Music From Women
Extreme Music From Women is a compilation album released in 2000 on the Susan Lawly label.-Track listing:#Rosemary Malign - "No You Listen"#Lisa & Naomi Tocatly - "Stiletto Nights""#Delores Dewberry - "Paragraph 64"#Candi Nook - "Schizephrenisis II...
compilation, issued by the Susan Lawly label.
Solo discography
- Fetish CD (Sound Gallery Label, 2000)
- Regret CD (Gods of the Tundra, 2001)
- Yume cassette (One Touch Monopolka, 2001)
- Jackie Hush CD (Bloodstar, 2002)
- Justine 8" (Bloodstar, 2001)
Collaborations
- Lux Mammoth 2000 - 2003
- Gata Negra 1999 - 2006
- Micevice 1995 -1997
- cAVity 2001-2004
- Abe Sada 2006 -