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?
Nick Schofield Delicately Recreates an Ottawa Architectural Gem on Glass Gallery
Published Feb 02, 2021
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When the National Gallery of Canada the building itself, not the institution was completed in 1988, then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called it a living part of Canada. The massive Moshe Safdie-designed institution remains an awe-inspiring achievement, with its 53,265-square-metre surface of pink granite, concrete and glass sitting atop Nepean Point overlooking the Ottawa River. It s no surprise this Ottawa landmark, especially the cathedral-like Colonnade and the grand windows of the Great Hall, could inspire such an expansive and buoyant release as
Glass Gallery, Ottawa-born and Montreal-based composer Nick Schofield s sophomore solo release.