Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound in Bloomington, MN

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 the 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. 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.