Cat Hope
Professor Cat Hope PhD is an artist and academic with an active profile as a composer, sound artist, soloist and performer in music groups internationally. She is the director of the award-winning Decibel new music ensemble, and is a Churchill and Civitella Ranieri Fellow. Her monograph CD on Swiss label Hat[Hut] won the German Critics prize in 2017, and her first opera ‘Speechless’ won the Best New Work (Dramatic) category at the 2020 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards. Cat is the co- author of ‘Digital Arts - An introduction to New Media’ (Bloomsbury, 2014) and has published internationally recognized research into music and gender, digital notations, digital archiving, low frequency sound and Australian music, including her own. She established the Western Australian New Music Archive (WANMA) at the State library of Western Australia in 2015 in partnership with Tura New Music, the National Library and the support of an Australian Research Council Linkage grant.