Cat Hope
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    • solo works >
      • Wanderlust (2018)
      • Thier Lives Are Stripped of Meaning (2018)
      • The Shadow Of Mill (2017-18)
      • The Past is Singing in Our Teeth (2017)
      • Black Tide (2017)
      • Dynamic Architecture 1 (2015)
      • Fourth Estate (2015)
      • Broken Approach (2014)
    • small ensemble >
      • U Mangibeddu Nostru (2018)
      • Smoothing the Pillow of Dying Race (2015)
      • Sub Aerial (2015)
      • Tough It Out (2014)
      • The Sinister Glamour of Modernity (after Ross Gibson) (2013)
      • Black Disciples (2013)
      • Miss Fortune X (2012)
      • Black Eels (2012)
      • Juanita Neilsen (2012)
      • Stella Degradation (2012)
      • Platinum Fox (2012)
      • Longing (2011)
      • Wolf at Harp (2010)
      • In The Cut (2009)
    • Instruments with Electronics >
      • The Aesthetics of Disappearance (2018)
      • The Post Truth Pleasure Garden (2018)
      • The Last Days of Reality (2018)
      • Delay Taints (2018)
      • Kaps Freed (2017)
      • Great White (2016)
      • Marking Time (2016)
      • Tone Being (2016)
      • Shadow (2016)
      • Majority of One (2016)
      • Erst (2015)
      • Tension Lines (2015)
      • The Earth Defeats Me (2014)
      • Pure (2014-16)
      • Lupara Bianca (2014)
      • Wall Drawing (2014)
      • Signals Directorate (2014)
      • Sogno 102 (2013)
      • Lowest Drawer (2013)
      • Liminum (2012)
      • Cruel and Usual (2012)
      • Chunk (2011)
      • Talking Board (2011)
      • Kuklinski's Dream (2010)
      • Empire (2010)
      • The Possible Stories of Harry Power (2009)
    • large ensemble >
      • Speechless [2017]
      • her pockets full of inertia [2015]
      • The End of Abe Sada 2014
      • Moments of Disappearance 2013
      • Black Emperor 2012
    • electronics >
      • Bravo Compound 2015
      • Chrome Arrow 2014
      • Kingdom Come 2008
    • acoustmatic
    • film music
  • Installations
    • Performance Installations >
      • Plug (2006)
      • Voyuerages (2004-6)
      • Unravelled (2003)
      • D.A.C.S (2002)
      • The Other Velvet (1999)
    • sound installations (solo) >
      • The End of Abe Sada 2014
      • Sounds of Decay [2013]
      • Amp Stack (2011)
      • Ruined Speaker Project (ongoing)
      • Drive [2002] and Tremor [2009]
      • Pick Pocket (2005)
    • visual art installations (collaborations) >
      • The Past is Singing in Our Teeth [with Kate McMillan] (2017)
      • Moments of Disappearance [with Kate McMillan] 2013
      • Islands of Incarceration [with Kate McMillan] 2010
      • Lost [with Kate McMillan] 2008
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  • bass noise
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    • Australian Bass Orchestra
    • Cat Hope and Tina Havelock Stevens
    • Super Luminum
    • abe sada
    • HzHzHz
    • candied limbs
    • lux mammoth
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    • Drawn From Sound
    • Digital Art: An Introduction to New Media
    • The End of Abe Sada
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    • Churchill Fellowship
    • A year in Peggy's House - Peggy Glanville-Hicks Residency 2014
    • Films
    • Drawn from Sound graphic score exhibition and book
    • decibel new music ensemble

Abe Sada bass orchestra project

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Abe Sada is a bass orchestra project whose main aim is to manipulate the lower end of the sound spectrum through live shows that combine installation with performance. In groups of 3 to 30 bass players from all different genres of music, they play under or around stages, car parks, in multi-story buildings, on soccer fields or in shop fronts to vibrate audiences with the extreme bass they produce. Directed by Perth based sound artist and composer Cat Hope, the Abe Sada project has a constantly evolving line up of bass players and scenarios, each epitomised in a text score in the Abe Sada Songbook, which you can download here. 
The group developed out of bass duo Lux Mammoth, whose first album is available on bandcamp. They have toured Japan twice and appeared in major festivals around Australia. Abe Sada can also be an installation, as seen here

DISCOGRAPHY 
Debut album Subzilla released on Bloodstar (2007). Featuring guest chainsaw solo and vocals by Tabatha Purwell. You can preview or download a free digital edition on Bandcamp.

The Low Chord  (2009)  is released on Japanese label Kubitsuri Tapes International. The album features collaborations with bass players Ed Ammendola (Augie March) and Dave Brown (Bucketrider).

Tatar Steppe (2010) is a limited CDR  released on Japanese Label VLZ produkt

Abe Sada: Redux is a live recording of 25 bass players on a red viynl split EP with chainsaw band Subordnance on Heartless Robot Productions.  You can listen to and buy it here.

ABE SADA COLLABORATORS have included: Bassta!Pex, Kenta McGrath, Leemo, Ben Franz, Cease, Katerina Katherine Papas, Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes), Kevin Robertson (Diode), KFord (chainsaw and bass), Dave Brown (Bucketrider), Edmondo Ammendola (Augie March), Bruce Mowson.

SELECTED PERFORMANCES:
Mona Foma, Princess Wharf, Hobart, Australia, 2011. With Brian Richie, Dave Brown and 20 others.
Elevator, Osaka, Japan, 2009. With 4 Australian and 6 Japanese bassists.
Spectrum Project Space, Perth, Western Australia, 2009, 25 bass guitars. you can hear this one here: 
Liquid Architecture Festival of Sound Arts, RMIT Carpark, Melbourne, 2010 with Ed Ammendola, Dave Brown, Robin Fox and 5 other bassists.


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