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Cat Hope is the Cheif investigator of a new funded archive of WA music, to be held at the State Library of WA. Edith Cowan University will partner with the library, Tura New Music, the National Library of Australia and ABC CLassic FM.

For some related press and more info, go here for an article in the West Australian newspaper, here for an ArtsHub article, here for an ECU article, and here on our partner, Tura’s web page.

The project starts mid 2012 and runs for 3 years.

Cat Hope is one of the featured composers in a new book on Fremantle Press, entitled “Women of Note”. Decibel will perform her compostiion “In The Cut” (2009) at the launch on Saturday 25 February, 5.30pm, at the Dolphin Theatre, at the University of WA, as part of the Perth Festival Writers Festival. Other people on the bill include Cathie Travers, Gail Priest,  Ann Carr Boyd and  more.

More information on the author Rosalind Appleby’s blog An online version of the  newspaper below can be found here

Cat Hope will be doing a bass noise performance in a duo with incredible voice artist, Amanda Stewart,

Wednesday 14 December at the Red Rattler, Marrickville, Sydney. Great line up for the opening of the Now Now Festival program.

Its free

Cat will be in Sydney where she is performing the music she wrote for choreographer Martin Del Amo’s works Mountains New Meet and Duel. More information here, and an article about the work was published in Realtime.

Shortly after she will be in Melbourne, workshopping a new work for string quartet and bass amplifiers with the Atticus Quartet, and performing with Golden Fur at KIPL on the 25th of August.

Cat Hope’s work with Decibel was  nominated for the Inaugral Award for Excellence in Experimental Music at the AMC/APRA Art Music Awards, which she won. She also won the Western Australian state award.

Cat was also nominated for the national Award for Excellence in Music Education.

Cat was also a finalist in the Western Australian Citizen of the Year awards in the Arts and CUlture Category.

Decibel tour southwest Western Australia, doing workshops and presenting a program of works by Eno, The Velvet Underground, Percy Grianger, Alvin Lucier, Rainer Linz, Cat Hope, Lindsay VIckery and more!

Denmark – 28 January 2011
Albany – 29 January
Northcliffe – 30 January
Nannup – 31 January

Details of venues of the Decibel web site

Cat will be making sound for a new installation by Kate McMillan, that will be installed on Cockatoo Island as part of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, NSW from the 12th May to the 1st of August. Following a similar concept to thier last collaboration, Lost, the work will be visible and audible day and night, and is reachable by ferry.

DECIBEL is a group of Western Australian musicians, composers, improvisors and sound artists who are devoted to the realisation of music where acoustic and electronic instruments are represented in musical works. In each DECIBEL performance, electronic instruments are treated as just that: performed instruments in their own right with their own sound quality and presence. There is no traditional PA at a DECIBEL concert since placement of performers and instruments in the space is an integral element in the sonic design of every DECIBEL concert. DECIBEL encourage the creation of new works for this genre, and the representation of works by Australian and Western Australian artists, established and emerging.

DECIBEL have presented over six full programs to date, several Australian tours and featured 4 of Cat’s works. All reviews, audio samples and other information is on the DECIBEL website.

Decibel. Photo © KFord

A reworking of the idea in Drive (2001), tremor is currently on exhibition at the RMIT project Space, in Cardigan St, Melbourne, until the end of June. It features a pickled kangaroo skin that is gradually hardening, and a subwoofer vibrating it with some Abe Sada. Here is a picture of it at the opening, on June 4.