The new virtuosity manifesto
Translated by Þráinn Hjálmarsson
Translated by Diego Kohn.
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A review of Iran Sanadzadeh and Mike Mulshine’s Networked performance concert at Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and performance, Monash Unviersity., 28 Marrch 2024.
This new book co-edited with Louise Devenish features a range of esteemed authors discussing what virtusosity means today.
This is a discussion between Kate McMillan and Cat Hope, about their new project together, Never At Sea that opens at St Mary Le Strand church in London, UK on June 21st 2023
Speechless, an opera written by Cat Hope in 2014- 2019, was presented in Hamburg, Germany as part of the Ligeti Festival in May 2023. This blog article is an overview that experience and its outcomes, and will be followed by a series of specific articles on elements of video, choir, score and staging.
This is the text of Cat Hope’s presentation as part of the ‘Freedom in Art’ at the ‘Freedom in Crisis’ Conference in Hamburg on November 19, 2022.
This blog post is a personal memorium to the singer, songwriter and drummer in US band Low, who passed away this month aged 55.
As you might expect with such a prolific artist, not every Morricone work is a masterpiece. Working in the film industry sometimes requires the creation of music for a film where the deadline is short and parameters fixed. Yet Morricone’s work is distinguished by just how good his best works are.
On the death of Ennio Morricone, a short peice about how his music has been with me most of my life, as a listener, composer, musician and person in the world.
I am very honoured to be giving the 2018 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address. Established by the New Music Network in 1999, I follow in the footsteps of amazing musicians and speakers that have included Genevieve Lacey, Warren Burt, Michael Kieran Harvey, Nicole Canham, Simone Young, and the late Richard Gill.
I really believe that art is important; I believe in its power to bring people together, how it helps us challenge and reflect on our views and improves our quality of life. Arts should be at the core of our national identity, as it helps us make sense of it .…
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The book explores contemporary notions of musical virtuosity, redeveloping historic concepts and arguing that our present understanding of virtuosity in Western Art Music has shifted from what seemed, for a time, to be a relatively clear and stable definition.
This article argues that animated notations are the most exciting new direction for music notation since the conception of the real-time score. Beginning with a brief historic overview of trends and background that may have informed the development of animated notation, contemporary practices and their application to a range of music is also examined.
Digital Arts presents an introduction to new media art through key debates and theories. The volume begins with the historical contexts of the digital arts, discusses contemporary forms, and concludes with current and future trends in distribution and archival processes. Considering the imperative of artists to adopt new technologies, the chapters of the book progressively present a study of the impact of the digital on art, as well as the exhibition, distribution and archiving of artworks.
In 2014 composer Cat Hope sought to commission a work from Éliane Radigue. During discussions, Radigue proposed a collaborative composition with another composer, performer and lead interpreter of her acoustic work, Carol Robinson. The result was Radigue's first co-composed work, and the first work by Radigue for an Australian group.
Low-frequency sound on the cusp of the audible offers the possibility of redefining the way we think about listening to music. As the perception of pitch is lost in very low-frequency sound emissions, an opportunity arises for a different kind of music and a different way of listening. Low frequencies can be engaged to activate responses other than the aural or be used as a kind of “silent activator,” enabling or affecting other sounds. This article explores the possibilities for what may be called an “infrasonic music.”