Artist description Cat Hope is a solo noise artist with a difference – she uses bass guitar. Based in Perth, where she performs regularly in her noise outfit LUX MAMMOTH and band GATA NEGRA, Cat also composes on commission for contemporary dance, theatre and film. Recordings of her works have been released internationally, and her solo bass album FETISH has recently been re released in Australia and the USA. Her music is languid and distorted, personal and disquieting, featuring endless bass loops, feedback, static noise and generally a bass guitar used in ways you ‘d never imagined possible.

Music Style noise

Artist History Her works have been toured extensivley, and the inclusion of one of her compositions on the Susan Lawly "EXTREME MUSIC FROM WOMEN" compilation early in 2000 led her to develop her solo bass noise performances and subsequently tour the USA., UK and Australia. Cat has also performed with Ikue Mori, Stellarc, Jon Rose, Tony Buck, Hugo Race, Quartered Shadows and Once Upon A Time and has completed albums with her band Gata Negra, Lux Mammoth, as well as MICEVICE and HUGO RACE AND THE TRUE SPIRIT.

Instruments bass and electronics

Albums FETISH (BS10),YUME (BS22)

Press Reviews "… Cat Hope has developed a unique set of chops, a powerful stage presence, great control of feedback, she also knows where number 11 is on the volume control of her amp, making her probably the noisiest woman that I've ever heard on a stage anywhere ." Jon Rose, Australia Ad Lib, 2001. "…subsonic rumbles, feedback, minimal beats all combined to form a kind of soup that merged beauty and ugliness in quite an original way. I like what Cat Hope does, I like it a bunch, and hopefully we’ll be hearing more from her as time goes on." Pittsburgh City Paper, USA. "…Cat Hope was like nothing I've ever heard/seen. Walls of feedback and raw noise generated by a bass and some effect boxes. This had to be the most "extreme" act of the night, in damn good terms of sheer abrasiveness and sensory overload…" Radio Static, Rochester USA "…Cat Hope knows her way around the bass to produce big time noise. " Vital Weekly, January 2001

Location perth, wa - Australia

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