Pink Noises: Ladies on Digital Music and Sound

Pink Noises brings collectively twenty-four interviews with ladies in digital music and sound cultures, together with membership and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and set up and efficiency artists. The gathering is an extension of Pinknoises.com, the critically-acclaimed web site based by musician and scholar Tara Rodgers in 2000 to advertise ladies in digital music and make details about music manufacturing extra accessible to ladies and ladies. That website featured interviews that Rodgers performed with ladies artists, exploring their private histories, their artistic strategies, and the roles of gender of their work. This ebook affords new and lengthier interviews, a crucial introduction, and sources for additional analysis and technological engagement.

Modern digital music practices are illuminated via the tales of girls artists of various generations and cultural backgrounds. They embody the creators of ambient soundscapes, “efficiency novels,” sound sculptures, and customized software program, in addition to the developer of the Deep Listening philosophy and the founders of the Liquid Sound Lounge radio present and the month-to-month Basement Bhangra events in New York. These and lots of different artists open up about matters resembling their conflicted relationships to formal music coaching and mainstream media representations of girls in digital music. They focus on utilizing sound to work creatively with buildings of time and area, and voice and language; problem distinctions of nature and tradition; query norms of technological observe; and steadiness their wants for productive solitude with collaboration and group. Whether or not designing and constructing modular synthesizers with analog circuits or performing with a wearable equipment that interprets muscle actions into digital sound, these artists develop notions of who and what counts in issues of invention, manufacturing, and noisemaking. Pink Noises is a robust testimony to the presence and vitality of girls in digital music cultures, and to the relevance of sound to feminist considerations.

Interviewees: Maria Chavez, Beth Coleman (M. Singe), Antye Greie (AGF), Jeannie Hopper, Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum), Christina Kubisch, Le Tigre, Annea Lockwood, Giulia Loli (DJ Mutamassik), Rekha Malhotra (DJ Rekha), Riz Maslen (Neotropic), Kaffe Matthews, Susan Morabito, Ikue Mori, Pauline Oliveros, Pamela Z, Chantal Passamonte (Mira Calix), Maggi Payne, Eliane Radigue, Jessica Rylan, Carla Scaletti, Laetitia Sonami, Bev Stanton (Arthur Loves Plastic), Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat)