SPEECHLESS
Opera composition and direction. Speechless is a 70-minute opera for 4 soloists, community choir and Bass orchestra. It is a wordless, animated notation opera intended as a personal response to the 2014 Human Rights Commission report ‘The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention’.
SUBDECORATIVE SEQUENCES I-IV
Audio Visual art Installation with related live performances
This is a work that is unique to each location it is shown. It features graphic music notation fixed to the walls of a room, inspired and literally ‘drawn’ from the decorative aspects of the building it is shown in, accompanied by a subtle amplification of the resonant frequency of the space. Whilst it is a stand alone audio-visual work, it is designed to be performed via a series of live music events during the installation period.
The title SubDecorative Sequences refers to musical information derived from the design and decoration of buildings, and coupled with these buildings resonant frequencies depicted as very low sine (sub) tones. It references the way decorative arts are thought of as a lesser art to altruistic aims of fine art, and how women’s art work has historically relegated to the side lines..
SUPER LUMINUM
Bass noise performance. Super Luminum is an improvised electric and bass guitar duo featuring Cat Hope and Lisa MacKinney. Their music has an aesthetic characterised by an unhurried approach to the gradual unfolding of ideas and the constructive employment of stasis as a compositional philosophy, creating loud, euphoric, swirling textures that often feature exploratory playing techniques and incorporate feedback, noise and experimental tonalities.
OCCAM XXVI by Eliane Radiuge
Flute performance. This solo piece for bass flute and alto flute was commissioned by Carriageworks and Room 40 for Cat Hope. It was premiered at Open Frame in Sydney at Carriageworks in 2018. Eliane Radigue is one of the most important French composers alive today.