Cat Hope
Find Cat Hope:
  • Home
    • Academic CV
    • Discography
  • News
  • Compositions
    • Composition List
    • solo works >
      • The Past is Singing in Our Teeth (2017)
      • Black Tide (2017)
      • Dynamic Architecture 1 (2015)
      • Fourth Estate (2015)
      • Broken Approach (2014)
    • small ensemble >
      • 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 >
      • 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
  • songs
    • gata negra
  • bass noise
    • solo
    • Australian Bass Orchestra
    • Cat Hope and Tina Havelock Stevens
    • Super Luminum
    • abe sada
    • HzHzHz
    • candied limbs
    • lux mammoth
  • Publications
    • Sounding Art
    • Drawn From Sound
    • Digital Art: An Introduction to New Media
    • The End of Abe Sada
    • Audible Designs
    • Papers
    • Articles
  • Projects
    • Speechless
    • Collaborations
    • 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

​Longing (2011)

Picture

Picture
This work for five sustaining instruments uses a graphic score to examine ideas about glissandi and drone.  Each instrument has a part that relates to the others in terms of pitch and time but is also self referential to a central ‘pitch line’.  The tempo is set within an automated  video or score player that enables the performers to keep together. The composers interest in drone music relates to its textural and maximalist tendencies, the way small details that in other music seem insignificant can seem very large when there is not a lot of change in rhythmic or pitch materials.  This piece is written for new music enemble Decibel, but can be interpreted by any 5 instruments.


Performances:
Decibel, May 2011, PICA, Canberra, 2011, Europe 2011, USCD students, USA.

Review:
“On the outer layer of what is an an artfully produced work {swoosh/noise/hissing}, that variesd in density by  draw ng grand glissandos while Cat Hope’s voice, with the shining vowels, repeats the title of the piece ‘Longing’ throughout. “ Ziegner, Rottenberg Tagblatt.

To perform this work, you can download the video below and use that as the score, or download the iPad app, the  Decibel ScorePlayer, which includes the score, and has many more features such as the ability to network multiple iPads (one for each member in the ensemble if desired), change the speed, move around for rehearsal etc. 
You can loan or purchase a copy of the 'paper' score from the Australian Music Centre. 


Longing (2011) score from cat hope on Vimeo.

Above: score only
Right: audio recording, 
premiere performance synchronised to the score.

Powered by
✕