Featured artists
Professor Cat Hope
Professor Cat Hope is a composer, musician, improviser, noise artist, curator and artistic director of Australia’s leading electro-acoustic new music ensemble, Decibel, She also leads the Monash Animated Notation Ensemble, a group made up of Monash students, staff and alumni. Her music is played by ensembles such as the BBC Scottish Symphony, KNM (Germany), YarnWire (USA), ELISION (Aus) and she has collaborated with KK Null, JG Thirwell, Stelarc and many others.
Cat has been awarded APRA AMC Art Music Awards in the categories of experimental music (2014 and 2017), best dramatic music work for her opera, Speechless in 2020, and for her leadership of Decibel in 2025. Her monograph CD ‘Ephemeral Rivers’, released on Swiss label HatHut was awarded the German Critics Prize in 2017, and she has contributed to over 40 releases as composer, performer and curator. Cat is a Churchill, Civitalla Ranieri and Hamburg Institute of Advanced Study Fellow.
Dr Johannes Luebbers
Dr Johannes Luebbers is a composer, orchestrator and arranger working across stylistic boundaries. He has arranged music for orchestras, composed for classical chamber ensembles and musical theatre, performed experimental jazz-rock, and played in cover bands. He is composer and director of his multi award-winning jazz ensemble the Johannes Luebbers Dectet (JLD), for which he has received two Australian Jazz Bell Awards and an APRA/AMC Art Music Award. Luebbers’ music explores the intersection of contrasting musical traditions and approaches, with a strong emphasis on collaborative practice. His 2021 album ‘Divide and Conquer’ was highlighted as one of the best large ensemble releases of 2021 by the ‘New York City Jazz Record’. As an arranger and orchestrator, he has written for artists such as Eddie Perfect, Kate Miller-Heidke, Shaynna Blaze, and The Panics, Eskimo Joe, Chrissy Amphlett and Jay Laga’aia.
Dr Martin Koszolko
Dr Martin K. Koszolko is an award-winning composer, producer, researcher and a Senior Lecturer at Monash University. His work explores remote music collaboration, environmental sound practices, and contemporary music production, bridging creative arts, digital communication and ecological inquiry.
His practice-led research examines how networked technologies and field recording reshape creative collaboration, authorship and listening. This research provides an evidence base for the impact of remote music collaboration on music production and the broader shift towards decentralised digital work. His doctoral project, classified as outstanding, involved collaborations with over 40 musicians across Europe, North America, and Australia.
Martin’s approach integrates creative practice, experimental production and industry engagement, generating insights transferable to other disciplines. He has contributed to over 60 releases on international labels and maintains strong global partnerships. He is the founder of the international Collaborative Music Contest and consults for companies developing cloud-based music technologies.
Dr Sam Gillies
Dr Sam Gillies is a composer and sound artist with an interest in the function of noise as both a musical and communicative code in music and art. His work treads the line between the musically beautiful and ugly, embracing live performance, multimedia and installation art forms to create alternating sound worlds of extreme fragility and overwhelming density. Sam's work has been programmed and exhibited at both national and international conferences and festivals, including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK; Test Tone Series at Superdeluxe, Tokyo; and the International Computer Music Conference. His use of harmony was once described by a prominent European composer as being "like a beautiful question mark."
2026 Day of CMT: Curious Composers and Experimental Producers
Saturday, 15 August 2026, 10am-3.30pm
Check-in opens at 9.45am