Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara) is an independent writer, composer, and musician, and the founder of Pinknoises.com, a website devoted to women DJs, electronic musicians, and sound artists. Her electronic compositions have been released on several recordings and exhibited at venues including the Eyebeam Museum in New York City and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto. She has received the New Genre Composition Prize from the International Alliance of Women in Music and a 2006 Frog Peak Experimental Music Award. Rodgers has an MFA in electronic music from Mills College. She is a Ph.D. candidate in communication studies at McGill University.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1. Time and Memory 25
Pauline Oliveros 27
Kaffe Matthews 34
Carla Scaletti 43
Eliane Radigue 54
Part 2. Space and Perspective 61
Maggi Payne 63
Ikue Mori 73
Beth Coleman (M. Singe) 81
Maria Chavez 94
Part 3. Nature and Synthetics 105
Christina Kubisch 107
Annea Lockwood 114
Chantal Passamonte (Mira Calix) 128
Jessica Rylan 139
Part 4. Circulation and Movements 157
Susan Morabito 159
Rekha Malhotra (DJ Rekha) 169
Giulia Loli (DJ Mtuamassik) 178
Jeannie Hopper 190
Part 5. Language, Machines, Embodiment 201
Antye Gueie (AGF) 203
Pamela Z 216
Laetitia Sonami 226
Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum) 235
Part 6. Alone/Together 243
Le Tigre 245
Bev Stanton (Arthur Loves Plastic) 255
Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat) 263
Riz Maslen (Neotropic) 273
Glossary 283
Discography 295
References 301
Index 313
