:Music Research Group

Summary or Research areas:

- Compositional and performative methodologies involving infrasound;

- relationships between music composition and film;

- sound installation possiblities using consumer mobile technologies,

- audio recording in forensic science,

- Totally Huge New Music Conference founder and convenor.
For more information: http://www.cathope.com

Specfic Projects:

• Audio recording in Forenscis, SymbioticA, UWA, funded by FAE.
This is a collaborative project with Prof. ian Dadour at UWA Forensics and sound artist Rob Muir. The artist devlop techniques for recording various states of physiological decay for use in electronic music composition.

• Sound intallations using mobile technologies, BEAPworks, funded by ArtsWA.
BEAPworks is a small colelciton of artists working in electonic art. Under the guise of Metaphonica, Cat collaborates with other artists developing techniques and technologies to be used in sound installations featuring mobile phones. There has also been a paper published as a result of this research. http://www.metaphonic.com

• Compositional and performative methodologies involving infrasound, PhD studies, RMIT University, Melbourne.
This PhD project explores infrasound (extreme low frequency sound) as a tool in composition and performance. The study has led to a series of arts residencies in countries such as Germany and Singapore.

• Music and Film; numerous publications.
Cat has published articles on this subject in a variety of journals, which include:
“Hearing the story; sound design in the films of Rolf De Heer”. Senses of Cinema, 2004
“Critical Mass: Sound, story and music in David Croneberg’s film Crash.”, Ballardian.com, 2006. She is currently writing a paper on the music in Mathew Barney’s “Cremaster Cycle”.

• Totally Huge New Music Conference. Perth 2005, 2007
In conjunction with Tura New Music, Cat founded this conference and is currently organsing the 2nd conference with the theme : “The Sonic Image : Exploring relationships between the sound and visual worlds.” The inugral conference papers have been published by Edith Cowan University.

Student theses currently supervised:

• “Application of Binaural Record in the Gaming World” Max Leong
• “Lindsay Vickery’s ‘Rendevous; an analytical study” Adam Willett
• “Transforming Messiaen: the application of elements of the musical language of Messiaen to the contemporary jazz ensemble.” Johanne Leubbers
• “From Music Concrete to Helmut Lechenmann: contexts for electronic music” Lisa James