Women in electronic/dance music

DJ Astrid
Tatana

who's kelly hand?

the others are all primarily DJs...i'm looking for actual musicians in the electronic field

what i'd like to see are more female engineers as well as female equivalents of Basement Jaxx and the like. maybe its not that relavant but havent you wondered why the girls tend to just want to dance to this stuff rather than actually MAKE it themselves? is it all just down to stifling stereotypes?

Here's an odd reason that will probably be shouted down (by myself) due to sexism. The very nature of dance music/electronics is the idea of one geek, alone in the bedroom twiddling knobs. (or up in a DJ booth twiddling knobs.) Geeks - women in the minority. Knobs - OK, I've just been looking at Barely Legal Teen Boys so I'm gonna steer clear of that one. But the way that women approach music is a communal thing, women often prefer to write in partnership, so the solo bedroom twiddling thing is not the preferred option. I'm too full of sugar to hone this into a fully formed opinion right now, but does anyone else know what I'm getting at?

It's just the way that I've seen women work when they create music, from having worked with so many of them...

Miss Kittin does some producing.

Meat Katie for breaks.

Making electronic music is often a lonely and anti-social process, no other band members, much less interaction with your audience. It's not just that it puts off a lot of women, but is does seem to attract a particular kind of boy (yes, boy, not man)

Anna, I am insulted.

i think kate is actually onto something in that boys are often brought up to believe its 'correct' for them to be interested in technology and want to sit in their bedrooms on their computers whereas this doesnt seem to happen with girls by and large

nabisco makes a fair point - there are many female renegades in electronic music, but out of the ones she listed Peaches is the only one having any kind of modcium of commercial success...so the issue becomes more why cant women in electronic music be perceived as a commercially viable thing?

I didn't mean it as an absolute statement, honest. Just, generally ... anyway, you're only 25, don't sell your youth down the river young man.

NABISCO IS A SAD AND ISOLATED LOOSER!

*runs and hides, ha!*

The nature vs nurture debate starts now!

eh?

blueski, she co-produced post, homogenic and did most of vespertine herself. talk to ANY of her collaborators and they'll tell you she has extremely well-defined ideas as to how she wants the music to sound; if anything, her weakness is as an engineer, NOT as a producer/musician.

an across-the-board first impression consensus from collaborators past and present is that she's much more involved (ie. in terms of sheer detail -> the 'musician' bits) than they ever would have expected. (i mean, bear in mind she attended the reykjavik music conservatory from 5 to 15 and has been recording since 11.) so to dimiss her perceived input as on par with beyonce or madonna (onetime professional bjork piggybacker!) is a tad dismissive, and probably reflective of the bjork as kook mentality that she's admittedly brought upon herself...

All her albums sound like her and it's not just because of the voice. I've seen her on TV programming a laptop and using and SU10. I think she can probably writes scores to an extent.

No ones mentioned Nic Endo so far who does (or did) a lot of stuff for ATR, live she must be making 50% of the sound. I've seen Alec Empire with and without her and without her he was rubbish. Her replacement on that occasion was a man. Nic also has sole albums.

Le Tigre are fantastic!!!

How much does Missy Elliot do? She's usually credited with co-production I think, but it seems easy to assume she does the words and Timbaland the bleeps. Does she make the music too?

http://www.sparkleproductions.freeserve.co.uk/djshardhousetechno.html

Siegbran or Steve have you ever seen Phil Reyonds play a set? What do you think of him?

vicky from people like us

and.... the godmother of the whole shebang - bebe barron!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07lg56k

Haven't heard it but this should be of interest here.

laurel halo?
olivia block
bonnie jones
andrea neumann
anne guthrie

i did listen to the late junction thing but i don't remember it being particularly special. website does contain the following howler though:

Delia Derbyshire & Lisa Stansfield
Circle of Light Part 2
Circle of Light (Original Electronic Soundtrack Recording). Trunk Records. 2.

complete with picture of Lisa Stansfield... (it's meant to be Elsa Stansfield)

there was an episode of LJ recently that had a female Buchla player on it, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith with a great, almost unbelievably coincidental, Suzanne Ciano annecdote. She also asked for the bbc to supply her with an ems polysynthi for the session, thinking they hadn't a chance in hell of finding one...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jmvbh

I really enjoyed this retrospective that was doing the rounds last year. Ruth White's "Flowers Of Evil" is a fantastic discovery.

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/05/15/40-years-of-women-in-electronic-music/

Is that the one that was reissued on creel pone recently? About the witches? Yes, good.

i am appreciating how electronic music history listacles are finally reaching parity

http://blog.landr.com/moments-music-10-synth-wizards-machines-fell-love/

with that one it seemed like it was taking an affirmative action approach to gender parity

Just realized Barbara Morgenstern's work on "Sweet Silence" record is reminiscent of the band Insides, particularly a track like "Relentless".

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170522-daphne-oram-pioneered-electronic-music

In the 1960s, though, Oram was taken up with her own invention: the Oramics machine. She had encountered a Cathode Ray Oscilloscope – which shows a visual image of sound waves – during her BBC training. Why not reverse it? If you paint in waves the ‘shape’ of the sound you want to hear on 35mm film, determining the pitch, vibrato, timbre and so on, scanners can read and convert that into layered sound. It was, in essence, an early sequencer – and more advanced than those that initially would become available in the 1980s.

The idea of a ‘graphical music’ system consumed Oram. It typifies her view of electronic music not as a soulless, mechanically-controlled thing, but as organic, human and joyously imperfect as any other music. “It’s quite a democratic view: on something like the Oramics machine, you can just draw,” points out McArthur. “That gestural interface means all people become composers, conceivably, which ties back into her philosophy which says that, at a molecular level, we are sounds. We are all made up noisy atoms and vibrations – sound is at the core of who we are. I find that really inspiring.”

In 1972, Oram also published her manifesto (of sorts): An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics. It is a deeply odd but fascinating work. Oram may explain how, say, electric circuits work, but will then go on to use them as far-reaching analogies for the human body and psyche. Much of it would prompt scientists to snort, but there’s compelling conviction and playful imagination in her ideas. She considers humans as instruments, featuring “a whole spectrum of resonate frequencies which are never at rest, never in a steady state, but are vibrant with pulsating tension” – right down to our very cells and atoms.

...

Oram was only 23 when she wrote Still Point. A wildly ambitious piece, it predates equivalent experiments by the likes of Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The piece is a sort of warped call-and-response between the orchestra and 78rpm records, using turntables and microphones to live-manipulate the sound. Its long-delayed debut was hailed as a triumph, Oram’s visionary take on electro-acoustic composition finally unleashed.

there are so many dope female producers and DJs right now

list your top x

mine would be

LNS
stellar om source
helena hauff
laurel halo
amelie lens
jayda g
d. tiffany
charlotte de witte
black madonna

pretty sure i'm forgetting someone dope

not ms owens, i'm not so enthused about her work

Jlin
Willow
LAPS
Beatrice Dillon
Marie Davidson
Lena Willikens
Avalon Emerson
Rroxymore
Shanti Celeste
Karen Gwyer
Iona Fortune
Solid Blake

Jlin is probably my top electronic/dance producer right now

nidia minaj
Kaitlin Aurelia Smith
plus what everyone else said

oh yeah jlin!! and KAS!!!

both SUPER dope

don't know nidia minaj - dj or producer

beatrice dillon's side of the split cassette she did w/ ben ufo is super sickkkkkkkkk

oh shit SHANTI CELESTE

i saw her DJ on a rooftop in LA and it renewed my belief in the power of techno

avalon emerson YES

i think i need to check out k gwyer

i know she has been mentioned earlier, but only in passing.
after her mo'wax trip hop album, andrea parker then went totally into the bass music scene.
set up the label touchin' bass, and released some insanely fantastic stuff.
the 3 'nobodys perfect' mixtapes that she released via TB are worthy.
and for her own productions, she released a rather wonderful compilation, 'heres one i made earlier' that compiled stuff she made with david morley.
summary : tis all rather wonderful.

nidia's a producer, run don't walk

yeah andrea is a real trailblazer, i loved her mo'wax stuff (especially ballbreaker / some other level)

i kind of checked out after awhile because i was tired of classicist electro bass, but i remember "freaky bitches" w/ dj assault was pretty sweet

is she still active?

as long as we're talking about trailblazers, i first heard "freaky bitches" on WEISS.MIX by ellen allien

what a classic

andrea parker still incredibly fresh sounding almost 25 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Ucdujdkcs

weiss.mix remains a total jam. i should beef up my collection of her work, i see all of her CDs at Amoeba on the cheap now.

Ziur
E.M.M.A.
Elysia Crampton
AMAZONDOTCOM
Ikonika
Zora Jones
Kablam
Abyss X
Coucou Chloe
Smurphy

huh

i literally know none of those producers

andrea parker's dj kicks is also a total jam

Inga Copeland

Nidia Minaj is great, Principe Discos crew

xp

is she still active?

she pops up on the radar from time to time, but she is not that active.
she once went up a mountain for 6 months i.e. the label/music is not the top groove for her these days.
and yes, the david morley collabs are fantastic.

Let me do that again with tracks:

Ziur
https://soundcloud.com/planetmurecords/u-feel-anything

E.M.M.A.
https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/glac

Elysia Crampton
https://soundcloud.com/breakworldrecs/the-demon-city

AMAZONDOTCOM
https://soundcloud.com/amazondotcom/tiny-shrimps-dream

Ikonika
https://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/track/ikonika-shovel

Zora Jones
https://soundcloud.com/fractalfantasy/ruby-fifths-ft-heavee-zora-jones

Kablam
https://soundcloud.com/janusberlin/kablam-furiosa-janus005

Abyss X
https://soundcloud.com/abyssxxx/nijinskian-ballad

Coucou Chloe
https://soundcloud.com/coucouchloe/doom

Smurphy
https://soundcloud.com/djsmurphy/garden-1

Nidia Minaj
https://principediscos.bandcamp.com/track/da-banda

Peggy Gou rules

Favourites:

Inga copeland
Marie Davidson
Keren gwyer
La vampire
Maria Minerva
Nina kraviz
AGF
Laurel halo

PEGGY GOU

Oh yeah and willow, who has been mentioned. She's the best

Nightwave
https://soundcloud.com/nightwave808/nightwave-wavejumper-fools-gold-records

been enjoying a bunch of amelie lens, sama and charlotte de witte sets recently

enjoyed chloé lula's set on hör berlin yt too (which looks like it was recorded in a toilet? iunno)

Wow this thread sure tells a story

yea a very bad one. the op ... jfc

whoa, this thread started back when blevin and jon l were in a band together ...

and when i used to book their band on the reg

what the heck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Padberg

Fortran!

Fortran Hero

so rad

https://github.com/bgenchel/PyPadberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OAqEgHpR3k

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.04470.pdf

remember last year when nina kraviz was racist and k. hand went to bat for her on twitter? that was weird

https://pitchfork.com/news/pauline-anna-strom-dead-at-74/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Anna_Strom