A start to 2020

COMPOSITIONS
The first part of this has been spent working on a new work for solo noise bass and symphony orchestra. Shivering Shoulders is based on a poem by Maxine Beneba Clarke, entitled ‘The Monsters Our Out’, and refers to gendered violience in the Australian state of Victoria. This will be premiered at the Tectonics Festival, Glasgow, on May 2nd by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Vlokov.

Cat’s piece The Aesthetics of Disapearance will be performed on that same night at the Melbourne Recital Centre by Elision ensemble.

PERFORMANCES

and… Cat will be the featured noise bassist in the aforementioned commission, performing this new piece at Tectonics
Super Lumimum also recently performed at the Make It Up Club, and the Country Daze music Festival in Castlemaine on 21 February.
Cat will be performing as part of the Monash Animated Notation Ensemble (MANE) in the Metropolis Festival, at the Melbourne Recital Centre, on April 8th, and in the Art Day Earth Model telematic performance event on 22nd of April.

RECORDINGS AND EXHIBITS

Two releases featuring Cat’s music came out over the change of year. ’Hear Now Here’, by the Monash Art Ensemble on FMR Records features over 2 hours of music, and Cat’s homage to Scott Walker, ‘Dark Hip Falls’ featuring Thereminist Miles Brown, is included. This has seen appearances on the ABC Radio National program, The Music Show, and interviews on ABC Melbourne.

Kaps Freed was released on the new Hat Hut splinter later, Ezzthetics, performed by Gabriella Smart, who has been touring this and the piano work Fourth Estate on her overseas tour this year.

Dark Water, the film co-directed by Erin Coates and Anna Nazzari, and with a film sound soundtrack composed by Cat and performed by Decibel, will be shown at the Adelaide Biennale ‘Monster Theatres’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia this March. It has also featured as part of the Official Selection for the Oaxaca FilmFest and Ax Wound Film Festival.

The ABC FM recording of Cat’s opera, Speechless, which premiered at the Perth Festival last year, will be broadcast on ABC Classic FM “Sunday Opera” as part of the International Women’s Day celebebrations on Sunday 8 March, alongside the first opera ever written by a woman, Francesca Caccini’s 'La liberazione di Ruggiero’. Also, as part of IWD celebrations, Cat will be hosting the Sound Barrier on PBSFM that night, with a 2 hour show with the subtitle “Dark, Angry, Strange and even Creepy”, taking a different look at female composers around the world, and challenging the stereotypes of what any idea of 'women's music' might mean.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

Cat will be visiting Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand in mid March to present talks on gender in music and the Summers Night Project she co-founded, which she will be participating in again this year.

She will be participating in ISCM Auckland in April, and the TENOR conference in Hamburg, in mid May as part of Decibel who will be artists in residence during the conference.