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Artist biogs (updated October 2026)

Short (101 words):

Cath Roberts (they/them) is an improviser, composer and artist based in Hastings, UK, working with acoustic and electronic sounds, experimental composition, and DIY publishing practices. Cath performs internationally on saxophones and live electronics, with recent appearances in Poland (Spontaneous Music Festival, Poznan), Belgium (Summer Bummer Festival, Antwerp), Switzerland (WIM, Bern) and Germany (Moers Festival, Moers). Current projects are Composite Mashworks, an improvising audio-visual collaboration with Tullis Rennie; and the long-running band Sloth Racket, once described as ‘lurching between riff and abstraction’ by the Wire magazine. Cath also publishes paper tools for improvised performance via the small press Ink-Paper-Sound.

Longer (324 words):

Cath Roberts (they/them) is an improviser, composer and artist based in Hastings, UK, working with acoustic and electronic sounds, experimental composition, and DIY publishing practices. Cath performs internationally on saxophones and live electronics.

In 2026 their collaborative project Composite Mashworks with Tullis Rennie appeared at Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Summer Bummer Festival (Antwerp) and XMTR Festival (St Leonard’s On Sea), including presenting two ‘Temporary Art Habitat’ installations; improvised, evolving micro art spaces constructed from sounds, cardboard, paint and string. This project evolved from the two artists working on Cath’s 2021 hcmf// commission And then the next thing you know, a cross-artform installation/performance piece involving a giant, hanging, fragmented graphic score.

Cath’s band Sloth Racket has recorded five studio albums, touring widely and ‘lurching between riff and abstraction’ (The Wire) since forming in 2015. Sloth Racket’s music is released through the Luminous label, an imprint run by Cath and long-time co-conspirator Dee Byrne. In 2026 and 2027, Sloth Racket are collaborating with Mark Holub’s Vienna-based band Anthropods, on his research project What are they building in there?

On saxophones Cath has collaborated with a wide range of artists and ensembles internationally for over a decade. Recent exploits include playing with Chris Corsano as part of his 2022 Cafe Oto residency, and being one of two UK artists (with Mandhira De Saram) commissioned by Australian Art Orchestra to co-create and perform Fresh Water – Salt Water in Melbourne and Huddersfield (a hcmf// and AAO co-commission, also in 2022).

Cath has worked with live electronics since 2020, improvising with analogue synthesisers and samplers in various contexts. These feature heavily in Composite Mashworks as well as other ongoing collaborations include Quartz Sand (with Kate Carr) and Grid & Robots (with Graham Dunning). Be unafraid to open things up, a solo improvisation on tabletop electronics, was released on Fractal Meat Cuts in 2022. Cath’s sampler-based solo collage set appeared at hcmf// 2024, Sonics Hastings 2025 and Sacrum Profanum (Kraków) 2025.

Current CV (last updated January 2025)