SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS: THEN, NOW, NEXT

WHEN 6 May TIME 6.30pm WHERE Online HOST Victoria Johnson-Henckel + Heather Blair PANEL Lisa Rovner, Laura Murden, Poulomi Desai, Loula Yorke, Annie Goh

To mark the release of Sisters with Transistors, to celebrate this story and those involved in electronic composition (past and present), Sound and Music is thrilled to be hosting a free, online panel discussion, Sisters with Transistors: Then, Now, Next, on Thursday 6th May, 6.30pm.

Panellists include Lisa Rovner (film’s director), Laura Murden (Music Hackspace), Poulomi Desai, Loula Yorke and Annie Goh.

Moderated by Victoria Johnson-Henckel and Heather Blair from the Sound and Music team, this discussion will explore the making of Sisters with Transistors and why it’s important that this music (and story) is heard today – alongside exploring: Who is missing from this picture? What challenges and barriers do women and gender-minority composers still face in the electronic music world? What changes do we need to see? And what do we want the future to look and sound like?

Each of the panellists will also play an extract of music or sound, their own or someone else’s that particularly inspires them.

The panel will be hosted on Zoom* and will also streamed on YouTube and Facebook Live. *Please note, our zoom webinar is limited to 100 seats.

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS

DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH | 86 MIN

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.

The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel.

DIRECTOR Lisa Rovner
NARRATOR Laurie Anderson
CERTIFICATE PG
SUBTITLES No | AD/SDH No