{"id":5054,"date":"2023-11-01T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novamondo-dev.de\/hias\/?post_type=fellow&p=5054"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:45:36","slug":"cat-hope","status":"publish","type":"fellow","link":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/fellow\/cat-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cat Hope is a classically trained flautist, self-taught vocalist, experimental bassist, composer and artistic director of Decibel new music ensemble. Her music is conceptually driven, using graphic scores, acoustic \/electronic combinations and digital scores. Her music has been discussed in books such as Hidden Alliances<\/em> (Schimmana, 2019), Sonic Writing<\/em> (Magnusson, 2019), Loading the Silence<\/em> (Kouvaris, 2013), Women of Note<\/em> (Appleby, 2012), Sounding Postmodernism<\/em> (Bennett, 2011) as well as periodicals such as Gramophone, The Wire, Limelight, and Neue Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Musik. Her 2017 monograph CD \u2018Ephemeral Rivers\u2019 (Hat[Art]Hut) won the German Record Critics prize that year, when Gramophone magazine called her \u201cone of Australia\u2019s most exciting and individual creative voices.\u201d Cat is Professor of Music at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she is part of the \u201eDigiScore\u201c European Research Council project and leader of the music notations research group. She is the co-author of the book Digital Arts \u2013 An Introduction to New Media<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cat Hope\u2019s sonic practice focuses on low frequency sound in both literal and conceptual frameworks. She explores systems for creating and reading graphic notations for music that facilitate this interest, including software development as well as new compositions, improvisations, performances and more traditional research outputs. Hope also researches early Australian electronic music, composers such as Giacinto Scelsi and Fausto Romitelli, digital archiving for music, art activism and issues around gender in music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cat Hope\u2019s collaboration partner is Georg Hajdu, professor of composition\/ theory with a focus on multimedia composition at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater Hamburg. She will be premiering her opera Speechless<\/em> in conjunction with the Hochschule, as well as working with staff and students at the Hochschule during her stay. She will also compose a range of works for ensembles around Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cat Hope\u2019s HIAS Fellowship is provided by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the federal and state funds acquired by the University of Hamburg in the framework of its Excellence Strategy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The University of Hamburg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Georg Hajdu<\/a>, Professor of Multimedia Composition at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater Hamburg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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06\/29\/2023, Lecture: The Future is Graphic, Animated digital notation for music<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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05\/03\/2023, Speechless \u2013 a wordless, animated notation opera<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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03\/31\/23, Conference: Sense and Visibility. Multisensory Experience and Representation of the Environment beyond the Visual<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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08\/12\/2022, HIAS on stage, Cat Hope and guests \u201eNew Australian Music Shorts\u201c<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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11\/18\/2022, Panel at \u201cHamburger Horizonte\u201d, Freedom in arts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publications in the Fellows Library<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n