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16 September 2020 @ 4:00 pm

Animated Notation - A Digital Future for Music Notation

Animated Notation - A Digital Future for Music Notation

This SensiLab Forum presentation examines Animated Notation – a dynamic, digital format of music notation. An alternative, rather than a replacement for traditional music notation, it is a way of communicating musical ideas where the contribution of performers plays a more significant role, and is accessible to musicians of any style or background. As a composer, Cat Hope has written over 40 works using this medium, and has led a team of musicians, composers and programmers to develop an iPad application, the Decibel ScorePlayer, that facilitates the coordinated reading of graphic notation for musicians to read. In this presentation she presents exemplars of animated notation, and outlines the evolution of the app as product of artistic research.

This SensiLab Forum was held on Wednesday 16 September at 4pm.

Cat Hope is a composer, performer, songwriter, noise artist and researcher. She is a flautist and experimental bassist who plays as a soloist and as part of other groups. She is the director of and performer in Decibel: a group focused on the nexus of electronic and acoustic instruments and animated score realisations, which led to her being awarded the the APRA|AMC Award for Excellence in Experimental Music in 2011 and 2014. She has been a resident at the Peggy Glanville Hicks Composers House in Sydney, Australia, as well as a Civitella Ranieri, Visby International Centre for Composers and is a Churchill Fellow. Her work has been discussed in books such as Hidden Alliances (Schimmana, 2019), Sonic Writing (Magnusson, 2019), Loading the Silence (Kouvaris, 2013) and Sounding Postmodernism (Bennett, 2011) as well as periodicals such as s The Wire.  Neu Zeitschrift Fur Musik Shaft and Gramophone, who called her “one of Australia’s most exciting and individual creative voices.” Her 2017 monograph CD on Swiss label Hat Hut won the German Record Critics prize. An advocate for Australian music and gender diversity, she is also the co-author of Digital Art – An Introduction to New Media (Bloomsbury) and Professor of Music at Monash University.