SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS
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SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL
SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS: LIVE ONLINE Q+A PANEL
Date: Tuesday 27 April Time: 8PM BST Where: Youtube live [link here]
Panel: Lisa Rovner [Director], Suzanne Ciani [Musician, Sound Designer, Composer] + Louise Gray [Writer, The Wire Magazine]
ABOUT Supersonic Festival present an online Q&A Panel featuring Lisa Rovner, Suzanne Ciani and Louise Gray. Presented in partnership with The Wire magazine.
LISA ROVNER Director of Sisters with Transistors, Lisa Rovner is a storyteller whose interests in cultural studies had led her to experience media as an art material, and mass media as a curatorial space. Her art work and films have been presented at the FIAC Art Fair, Art Basel Switzerland, the Paris Film Festival, The Grand Palais in Paris, and featured on websites such as Nowness, Interview Magazine, NYTimes, Artlog, Dazed Digital, Opening Ceremony, and Holiday Magazine, among others. Her writings have appeared in Acne Paper, Wilder Quarterly, Bad Day, Dapper Dan, ANP Quarterly, Holiday Magazine, and many others.
SUZANNE CIANI Featured in Sisters with Transistors, Suzanne Ciani is a five-time Grammy award-nominated composer, electronic music pioneer, and new age recording artist. While in grad school in Berkeley, Suzanne became entranced with the ability to produce music with a machine, and devoted herself to the Buchla synthesizers for the next two decades, pioneering live electronic performances in quadrophic sound. Alongside a successful artistic career, she was also responsible for scoring TV spots and crafting iconic sound bites for some of America’s largest corporations throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s.
LOUISE GRAY Louise Gray is a writer for The Wire who specialises in contemporary experimental music and performance. She is an associate lecturer in Sound Arts at the University of the Arts London. Her academic work focuses on the strategic ingenuity that contemporary female composers have developed in order to practise. She is currently involved with writing projects that include the composers Eliane Radigue and Annea Lockwood.
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
PRODUCER Anna Lena Vaney
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION United Kingdom
CERTIFICATION PG
SUBTITLES Yes [English] | AD/SDH Yes