Cathy van Eck (1979 The Netherlands/Belgium) is a composer and sound artist. Her work includes compositions for instruments and live-electronics, as well as performances with sound objects, which she often designs herself. She studied composition and electronic music at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She attended several courses, among them Centre Acanthes 2000 in Avignon, the summer course for composition and computer music at IRCAM in Paris and the composition course at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
She performs her works regularly during festivals like Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterdam, TRANSIT in Leuven, NYCEMF in New York, SPARK Festival in Minneapolis, Klangwerkstatt in Berlin, Performance Festival Der Längste Tag in Zurich, Hapzura Digital Art in Israel, Avantgarde Schwaz in Austria and Spaziomusica in Italy.
She is currently doing a doctoral degree at the Orpheusinstitute in Ghent and University of Leiden in the DocARTES Program, her dissertation subject is Loudspeakers and Microphones as Musical Instruments. Her supervising professors are Richard Barrett and Frans de Ruiter. Since March 2007 she has a teaching position at the department for music and media arts of the University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland.