Women in electronic/dance music

AGF is still making some pretty incredible records these days, imo

Once went to an Autechre gig and a guy in front of me, with a skinhead and a North Face jacket no less

for all you know that could have been rob brown hisself!

i always say "loads of indie kids" on the phone to friends in tones of contempt - is the sign to move elsewhere, always

BE PREPARED:
to have your brain picked
to have the pickings misunderstood
to be mistreated whether your success increases or decreases
to have detraction move with admiration --- in step
to have your time wasted
your intentions distorted
the simplest relationships in your thoughts twisted
to be USED and MISUSED
to be "copy" to be copied to want to cope out cop out pull in and away
if you are a woman (and things are not utterly changed)
they will almost never believe you really did it
(what you did do)
they will worship you they will ignore you they will malign
you they will pamper you
they will try to take what you did as their own
(a woman doesn't understand her best discoveries after all)
they will patronize you humor you
try to sleep with you want you to transform them with your energy
they will berate your energy they will try to be part of your
sexuality they will deny your sexuality/or your work they
will depend on your for information for generosity they will
forget whatever help you give they will try to be heroic for
you they will not help you when they might they will bring
problems they will ignore your problems a few will appreciate deeply they will be loving you as what you do as what you
are loving how you are being they will of course be strong in
themselves and clear they will NOT be married to quiet
tame drones they will not say what a great mother you would
be or do you like to cook and where you might expect understanding and appreciation you must expect NOTHING then enjoy whatever gives-to-you as long as it does and however and NEVER justify yourself just do what you feel carry it strongly
yourself

jennifer cardini - probably most well known for her mix for kompakt, which i heartily endorse. it might be a bit sterile, but the tracklist and flow are expert. it's a spacious bouncy kompakt mix made with very few actual kompakt singles. neat. i was introduced to her by this mix way back in 2001 in paris. (on the same trip i got to hear a laurent garnier daft punk double bill at the rex. hell yes!)

tania vulcano - i rate her circoloco mix from last year: from sneak to freaks to mountain people. nice and atypical for a commercial ibiza mix.

Akiko Kiyama is pretty good.

others to mention: Miss Jools/Sleeper Thief

ubuweb has a full-text copy of Daphne Oram's An Individual Note: Of Music, Sound and Electronics: http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/text/emr/books/oram_anindividual.pdf

Emika! Her album is ok, her work compiling (and contributing to) the Funf compilation and her more recent track are more instrumental but maybe even better.

there was a nice little box-out, and associated Spoitfy playlist in that new Electronic magazine full of this stuff. "The Electronic Music Archive At Spotify" if that helps (don't have spotify, and haven't heard all the following, anyway...)

Johanna M Beyer / Pauline Oliveros / Alice Shields / Ruth Anderson / Jean Eichelberger Ivey' / Ann McMillan / Sorrel Hays / Katherine Norman / Laurie Spiegel

http://nerdgirls.poemproducer.com/
^^ not even a complete list, just a great one

http://femalepressure.tumblr.com/

https://manymanywomen.wordpress.com/

awesome

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