Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures; including club and radio DJs; remixers; composers; improvisers; instrument builders; and installation and performance artists. The collection is an extension of Pinknoises.com; the critically-acclaimed website founded by musician and scholar Tara Rodgers in 2000 to promote women in electronic music and make information about music production more accessible to women and girls. That site featured interviews that Rodgers conducted with women artists; exploring their personal histories; their creative methods; and the roles of gender in their work. This book offers new and lengthier interviews; a critical introduction; and resources for further research and technological engagement.Contemporary electronic music practices are illuminated through the stories of women artists of different generations and cultural backgrounds. They include the creators of ambient soundscapes; ldquo;performance novels;rdquo; sound sculptures; and custom software; as well as the developer of the Deep Listening philosophy and the founders of the Liquid Sound Lounge radio show and the monthly Basement Bhangra parties in New York. These and many other artists open up about topics such as their conflicted relationships to formal music training and mainstream media representations of women in electronic music. They discuss using sound to work creatively with structures of time and space; and voice and language; challenge distinctions of nature and culture; question norms of technological practice; and balance their needs for productive solitude with collaboration and community. Whether designing and building modular synthesizers with analog circuits or performing with a wearable apparatus that translates muscle movements into electronic sound; these artists expand notions of who and what counts in matters of invention; production; and noisemaking. Pink Noises is a powerful testimony to the presence and vitality of women in electronic music cultures; and to the relevance of sound to feminist concerns.Interviewees: Maria Chavez; Beth Coleman (M. Singe); Antye Greie (AGF); Jeannie Hopper; Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum); Christina Kubisch; Le Tigre; Annea Lockwood; Giulia Loli (DJ Mutamassik); Rekha Malhotra (DJ Rekha); Riz Maslen (Neotropic); Kaffe Matthews; Susan Morabito; Ikue Mori; Pauline Oliveros; Pamela Z; Chantal Passamonte (Mira Calix); Maggi Payne; Eliane Radigue; Jessica Rylan; Carla Scaletti; Laetitia Sonami; Bev Stanton (Arthur Loves Plastic); Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat)
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Nice little book of tattoosBy Val A.This is a neat little book. I didnt find any tattoo inspirations in it. but the pictures are lovely and the stories behind them fun to read. I did find a couple of the tattoos themselves to be quite inspirational. and added the pictures to my vision board. Overall. I am glad I purchased this book.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Easy. Enjoyable and Beautiful - Perfect for the Hopeless RomanticBy Todd Buster ParisConceptually. I LOVE the idea of this book. Pre-ordering it I had those butterflies in my stomach and couldnt wait to get it. It did NOT disappoint.For tattoo fans. this book has some nice pictures and more importantly. very interesting stories about tattoos inspired by literature. For you fans of literary works. this will absolutely be thrilling. entertaining and fun to see ... well ... to see the words made flesh.This is a great book for the hopeless romantic. the tattoo enthusiast. and/or for the literary buff - as well as anyone who enjoys asking the question. or giving the answer to: "nice tattoo. whats it mean to you? whyd you get it?"If youre on the fence and wondering if you should buy it. let me point 3 things:(1) For the price. its an absolute no brainer. Buy it(2) No matter what the price. its a no brainer. Buy it.(3) The reason that youre even considering buying this book is why you should buy this book.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful cover. Wonderful conceptBy UnoleI loved the idea of this book and the cover really sold me on purchasing this as a gift for a friends birthday. While I have not read the book in its entirety. I did flip through each page to see the tattoos. Each page layout is very unique but the quality of tattoos featured didnt really strike me as worthy of print. The visual artistry didnt exactly live up to the ideals behind the tattoo concepts to me but "Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder" I guess.
