Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound

Even when I don't much care for the artist Rodgers is talking to the discussion is lively and interesting. “Rodgers conducted thoughtful, detailed interviews with a wide range of artists. Rodgers clearly understands many disparate modes of music making, and sounds equally authoritative whether she's talking about elaborate programming schemes, the language of analog synthesizers, or record buying.” - Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

That site featured interviews that Rodgers conducted with women artists, exploring their personal histories, their creative methods, and the roles of gender in their work. Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. They include the creators of ambient soundscapes, “performance novels,” sound sculptures, and custom software, as well as the developer of the Deep Listening philosophy and the founders of the Liquid Sound Lounge radio show and the monthly Basement Bhangra parties in New York. These and many other artists open up about topics such as their conflicted relationships to formal music training and mainstream media representations of women in electronic music. Pink Noises is a powerful testimony to the presence and vitality of women in electronic music cultures, and to the relevance of sound to feminist concerns.Interviewees: Maria Chavez, Beth Coleman (M. Whether designing and building modular synthesizers wit

Everyone should own this book, and read it. 5 stars. Everyone involved in the experimental + electronic music / arts should have a copy of this book at home. It should be the topic of discussions both formal and informal. PINK NOISES belongs in every syllabus for any electronic music course (especially electronic music history, but really, any course) taught in every university, and es. "Five Stars" according to Mario Martin. N-E-A-T!