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14 - The Star-Eaters: A 2019 Survey of Female and Gender-Non-Conforming Individuals Using Electronics for Music

from Part III - Women and Music Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2021

Laura Hamer
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Moving forward to the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Chapter 14 provides a survey of contemporary female and gender-non-conforming artists using electronics for music. Margaret Schedel and Flannery Cunningham highlight how greater access to affordable means to manipulate digital sound from the autonomy of personal computers – away from difficult-to-access studios staffed by technicians and equipped with complex technology, which were previously largely the domain of male ‘experts’ – has opened up electronic music to a wider demographic of people (in terms of gender, race, and class). Taking an ethnographic approach which draws upon questionnaire material from twenty-four respondents variously identifying as composers, sound artists, instruments builders, and programmers, this chapter explores some of this diversity through the artists’ own words.

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Print publication year: 2021

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Baker, Elizabeth A. The Resonant Life: Attack. Decay. Sustain. Release. Resonate (USA: 2018).Google Scholar
Fiebink, Rebecca. The Wekinator (n.d.). www.wekinator.org/ (accessed 11 December 2020).Google Scholar
Rowland, Jess. ‘Flexible Audio Speakers for Composition and Art Practice.’ Leonardo Music Journal (2013), 33–6.Google Scholar

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