Cat Hope is an award-winning Australian composer and performer who focuses on the extremes of sound – from extreme noise to barely audible delicacy. Her works have been performed worldwide by ensembles such as Yarn Wire (US), Hanatsu Miror (FR), the BBC Scottish Symphony (UK), KNM (DE), and Norbotten Neo (Sweden). Recordings of her works are published internationally on labels such as Hat (Hut) Art, with her monograph CD Ephemeral Rivers winning the German Critics Prize in 2017. Her music has been discussed in books such as Score Writing (Thor Magnusson, 2019) and Hidden Alliances (Schimmana, 2019), as well as periodicals such as The Wire (UK), Revue & Corrigée (FR), Neu Zeitschrift Fur Musik Shaft (DE) and Gramophone (UK), who named her “one of Australia’s most exciting and individual creative voices.” Cat is also an active music curator and academic. Her recent book, co-edited with Louise Devenish, “Contemporary Musical Virtuosities” (Routledge, 2004) has been called “a rewarding, thought-provoking book” (Stefenakis, 2024), and her co-authored book ‘Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media’ (Bloomsbury, 2014) was described as “brilliant in its relevance and succinct accessibility” (Young, 2017). Cat is the director of the Decibel new music ensemble, who pioneer the interpretation of digital and animated notations for music.