Additional Material for the presentation »Female Pioneers of electronical Music« by Zosia Hołubowska held on Monday January 10th 2021.

ARTICLES and BOOKS

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction - Is the synth the ultimate feminist instrument?

Lucie Vágnerova. ‘Nimble Fingers’ in Electronic Music: Rethinking sound through neo-colonial labour. In: Organised Sound , Volume 22 , Special Issue 2: Alternative Histories of Electroacoustic Music , August 2017, pp. 250 – 258. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

Salome Voegelin. Listening to Noise and silence. Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art. London, New York: Continuum, 2010

futher reading:

Johann Merrich. A Short History of Electronic Music and its Women Protagonists. Rome: Arcana Edizioni, 2021

Thom Holmes. Electronic and Experimental Music. Technology, Music, and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2020.

PODCASTS

https://www.openculture.com/2016/07/electronic-ladyland.html?fbclid=IwAR2CmFJu00ZkdpSfTKMHN9S4dNkrJQfhnafYZ8wP6KwbbGTBfwnDwRO9pws

https://www.openculture.com/2015/06/hear-seven-hours-of-women-making-electronic-music-1938-2014.html

https://www.mixcloud.com/poemproducer/nerdgirls-for-equality-diversity-and-world-peace/

FEMALE PIONEERS

Johanna Beyer

https://tpc.home.blog/2019/01/18/profile-johanna-beyer-enigmatic-modernist/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8EGDcwpYsg – Example of percussion work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_REVFN7A6_4 – Music of the Spheres (1938)

Kennedy, John & Polansky, Larry. (1996). "Total Eclipse": The Music of Johanna Magdalena Beyer: An Introduction and Preliminary Annotated Checklist. The Musical Quarterly. 80. 10.1093/mq/80.4.719.

Daphne Oram

https://www.musicradar.com/news/beginners-guide-to-oramics

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170522-daphne-oram-pioneered-electronic-music

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/01/daphne.oram.remembered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTHXwgTpy90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oc0B6pkl4A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia7v7JKfblk

Daphne Oram. An Individual Note of Music Sound and Electronics. Norfolk: Galliard Ltd, 1972

Wendy Carlos

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/11/she-made-music-jump-into-3d-wendy-carlos-the-reclusive-synth-genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cab5IcCy8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5uEWrot0gg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHrryY5UL0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIHll86NbYk

Pauline Oliveros

https://blogthehum.com/2017/05/24/a-meeting-of-remarkable-minds-a-live-radio-discussion-between-annea-lockwood-and-pauline-oliveros-from-december-1972/

https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/pauline-oliveros-lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QHfOuRrJB8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLJ7PKmpE0

Pauline Oliveros. Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (Intro). iUNIVERSE, 2005

MORE LINKS sorted by countries

DECOLONIAL CRITIQUE https://dwellerforever.blog/2021/04/22/world-music-for-who/

POLAND 

Polish Radio Experimental Studio https://unearthingthemusic.eu/tag/polish-radio-experimental-studio/

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sounds-polish-radio-experimental-studio/

LATIN AMERICA

Jaquelin Nova https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BOou1hQEmY

Graciela Castillo https://viajeroinmovilexprimental.bandcamp.com/album/graciela-castillo-composiciones-1965-2003?from=embed

https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/peru/raro-13-ale-hop-female-pioneers-of-electronic-and-electroacoustic-music-in-latin-america-59928/ 

JAPAN

Michiko Toyama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQwH5Ozpj-A

RUSSIA

Valentina Goncharova https://muscut.org/releases/shukai3

https://shukai.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-1987-1991-vol-1?from=embed

Sofia Gubaidulina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Ds1BEb430

https://unearthingthemusic.eu/posts/russian-electronic-music-people-and-instruments/

PERSIA

https://ataebtekar.bandcamp.com/album/persian-electronic-music-yesterday-and-today-1966-2006?from=embed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEBKDupzQcQ

INDIA

Cashmere Radio Show https://cashmereradio.com/episode/open-sources-28-early-sound-synthesis-in-the-non-west/

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/electronic-india-moog-interview-paul-purgas