"Cat Hope, born 11 March 1966, is an Australian musician and academic, based in Melbourne and is currently the Head of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music - Monash University. She is best known as a noise, installation and performance artist. She was a founder of the legendary Perth noise duo Lux Mammoth; was a singer, songwriter and bassist in dark indie band Gata Negra, and she also performs solo noise music using bass guitar. Her current projects include a series of works that focus on low frequency called 'the low grooms' and a bass improv quartet Abe Sada.

Hope lectured in classical music and music technology at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. In 2000 she was awarded the Pandora's Box Film Festival Award for best film score. In that year her music was included in the Extreme Music From Women compilation, issued by the Susan Lawly label. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the UWA School of Music (now the UWA Conservatorium of Music)."

Aaron Wyatt: "Originally from Perth where he had an extensive career as a freelance musician, Aaron is now an assistant lecturer at The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University. He is a violist, violinist, conductor and programmer.

Playing across a range of genres with many different ensembles, he was a long time, regular casual with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and recently toured with them to China and Abu Dhabi. He has performed internationally with a number of other groups and productions, including the award winning fringe show City of Shadows by Rachael Dease.

In Decibel, he is the developer behind the Decibel ScorePlayer app, the group's animated graphic notation software for the iPad. Aaron was recently nominated for a Helpmann Award for his musical direction of Cat Hope's new noise opera Speechless, presented as part of the 2019 Perth International Arts Festival."

"Caitlin is an Australian Mezzo-Soprano currently working as a principal artist at Opera Australia in the NSW Schools Tour of Barber of Seville.

Recent appearances include Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with the State Opera of South Australia, as Ježibaba in Rusalka and as Silvia (traditionally cast as Silvio) in I Pagliacci with Freeze Frame Opera.

Caitlin made her principal debut with West Australian Opera (WAO) in 2013 as Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto, re-joined the company for the 2014 production of The Magic Flute in the role of Third Lady and again when she sang Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro. Caitlin is an alumnus of WAOʼs Young Artist Programme and the winner of both the Wesfarmer and Bendat scholarships.

Caitlin recently completed a Professional Studies Diploma at Mannes College, New York City. During this time Caitlin performed the roles of Zita in Gianni Schicchi and the Monitor in Suor Angelica in Mannes Operaʼs Puccini Double Bill, the Older Woman in Jonathan Doveʼs Flight and Alma March in Adamoʼs Little Women.

Caitlin is a graduate from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where she completed a Bachelor of Music, a Graduate Diploma and a Master of Creative Arts.

At WAAPA Caitlin received the Barbara McLeod scholarship for the Most Outstanding Classical Female Student of 2010 and the following year was a Semi-Finalist and the winner of the Tinkler Encouragement Award at the Australian Singing Competition."

"Versatile and unconventional soprano Judith Dodsworth is an accomplished performer across the genres of opera, oratorio, chamber music and art song. A graduate of Canberra School of Music and the University of Melbourne, she furthered her studies in London and Vienna where she worked extensively with such groups as the Arnold Schönberg Chor, Concentus Vocalis Wien and NeuOper Wien.

Her numerous and varied operatic roles include Greta in Brian Howard's Metamorphosis for Victorian Opera, the title role and Mercedes in Carmen for OzOpera, the lead soprano in Opiume (world première) for the Singapore and Hong Kong Arts Festivals, Eugenia in The Country Philosopher and the title role in Rameau's Pygmalion (presented as Cantata) in Canberra for Stopera and Mrs P in Michael Nyman's The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

In 2012 she sang the role of Clara for the première of Gordon Kerry's Midnight Son for Victorian Opera at less than twenty-four hours notice. In 2013 her performance in Peter Maxwell Davies' seminal one-woman opera Miss Donnithorne's Maggot with Syzygy Ensemble was described by Limelight magazine as "positively mesmerising". Recently she created the role of Sophie in From A Black Sky by Sandra France for the Canberra Centenary Festival.

Increasingly in demand as an exponent of new music, Judith has performed, recorded and premièred numerous vocal, operatic and chamber works by composers throughout Australia including Kevin March, Nicholas Vines, Ann Carr-Boyd, Mary Finsterer, Johanna Selleck, Stuart Greenbaum, Nirmali Fenn, Larry Sitsky, Peter Sculthorpe, Calvin Bowman, Matthias Pintscher and John Taverner. Her performance of the Australian première of György Kurtàg's Messages of the Late Miss R V Troussova with the Australian National Academy of Music and Brett Dean in 2010 cemented her reputation as a formidable interpreter of challenging scores.

As an oratorio soloist Judith's repertoire is similarly diverse and has included Carmina Burana (Orff), A Child of Our Time (Tippett), Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah and Dixit Dominus, Charpentier's Te Deum, Vivaldi's Gloria, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and many sacred works of Schubert, Haydn, Mozart and Bach."

"My singing practice takes inspiration from Tuvan and Mongolian overtone singing, Inuit throat singing, sound poetry and an ongoing exploration of extra-normal vocal technique.

I also take influence from industrial musick, trance, and drone; insight meditation practice, urban/industrial shamanism and chaos magick; feminist, queer and trans praxis; and Discordianism.

As a researcher, I have interests in feminist, queer and trans politics, intersectionality and ethical engagements with postmodern culture(s), with a focus on writing against normative narratives. A critical engagement with the ethics of performance, cultural appropriation and privilege form the core of my praxis. I use the moniker Sage Pbbbt for vocal performance work and my name Sage J Harlow for writing.

I recently complete my PhD entitled 'Giving voice to the extra-normal self with the extra-normal voice: Improvised exploration through the realms of shamanic chaos magick, insight meditation and gender performance.' You can read it here if you like.

Sometimes I play the drums. Sometimes I write pieces of musick.

Pronouns: she/her.

I recognise the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of this country. I recognise the the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the traditional custodians of the land where I live (Perth, Western Australia)."

"Karina Utomo is an extreme metal vocalist, composer, and co-founder of several Melbourne-based metal projects including High Tension, Rinuwat, and KILAT.

Her vocal practice combines multiple techniques of extreme metal with experimental, cross-cultural approaches and draws on Javanese mythology and storytelling.

Born in Indonesia and having lived between Canberra and Jakarta, Karina's background fosters a resilience and hybridity in her artistry. Fashion Journal

She is especially active in pushing boundaries in the metal genre, integrating cultural instrumentation and thematic elements in her work (for instance, Rinuwat collaborating with gamelan).

Her band High Tension released albums such as Death Beat and Bully and was nominated for ARIA Awards; the band concluded around 2021."