When we think of pioneers in electronic music, who comes to mind?
Perhaps Brian Eno, with his professorial vibes and conceptual strategies. Or Kraftwerk, with their avant-garde robot pop and future-obsessed lyrics. Or maybe, Nils Frahm or another contemporary-classical boffin, squirrelling away behind vintage synths and wowing concert halls with their unconventional way with a grand piano.
Whoever it is, the person you’ve thought of is almost certainly male.
Now a new documentary aims to give voice to “electronic music’s unsung heroines”.
Sisters With Transistors, by French-American first-time director Lisa Rovner and narrated by Laurie Anderson, maps out a revisionist history of machine music focusing on female pioneers, twiddling away behind early synthesisers and creating otherworldly soundtracks, often armed with little more than magnetic tape, scissors and a lot of patience.
Amplifying the Women Who Pushed Synthesizers Into the Future
Lisa Rovner’s “Sisters With Transistors: Electronic Music’s Unsung Heroines” spotlights the pioneers who harnessed technology to do more than “push around dead white men’s notes.”
Daphne Oram, a crucial figure of electronic music history, was the first woman to set up her own independent electronic music studio.Credit.Via The Daphne Oram Trust and Metrograph Pictures
By Lindsay Zoladz
April 21, 2021, 2:44 p.m. ET
When you hear the phrase “electronic musician,” what sort of person do you picture? A pallid, wildly coifed young man hunched over an imposing smorgasbord of gear?
Newly elected President of Sligo Chamber of Commerce and Industry for 2021 takes office
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Sligo Chamber of Commerce is delighted to announce that Tara Rodgers has been elected as President of Sligo Chamber of Commerce and Industry for 2021.
Tara has recently been appointed manager of EBS in Sligo having previously worked for Bank of Ireland as Head of Banking for Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon.
She has been member of the executive of Sligo Chamber since 2016 and will continue to follow on the great work done by Karl Kelly as President of the Chamber for 2020.
Commenting on her appointment, Tara said: “I am delighted and privileged to have been elected president of Sligo Chamber of Commerce. It is going to be challenging year for businesses and our members as we progress out of the restrictions.