I went down a rabbit hole this afternoon since it’s my tenth birthday : )
I shouldn’t have favourites but Bebe Barron is definitely top of my list of Pioneers of Electronic Music.

I went down a rabbit hole this afternoon since it’s my tenth birthday : )
I shouldn’t have favourites but Bebe Barron is definitely top of my list of Pioneers of Electronic Music.

It is with sadness that I learnt of the death of Kaija Saariaho. There are others more eloquent and knowledgeable than me, who have written obituaries to match her importance in the pantheon of composers.
All I can say is that personally, her music was one of the first where I discovered the beauty of the natural world encapsulated in sound and composition, using both orchestral and electronic instruments.
As my blackbird sings in the garden this morning, somehow, I hear a connection between his song and her songs.
Composer, electronic, opera, electroacoustic, orchestral, chamber music, innovator, pioneer.
Lichtbogen (1985-86) for nine musicians and live electronics –
Solar
Verblendungen (1982/1984)
experimental, tape manipulation, electronic, ambient electronic, experimental pastoral, radiophonics, pioneer
This month, June, Feminatronic will be concentrating on artists whose names begin with D.
What better place than to start with a pioneer of electronic music – Delia Derbyshire.

This month’s rolemodel is an electroacoustic and acousmatic composer from Belgium, Annette Vande Gorne.
SOUND / IMAGE
Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice
https://blogs.gre.ac.uk/sound-image/2019/10/28/annette-vande-gorne/
electroacoustic, experimental, musique concrète
Elizabeth Anderson; An Interview with Annette Vande Gorne, Part One. Computer Music Journal 2012; 36 (1): 10–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/COMJ_a_00102
Elizabeth Anderson; An Interview with Annette Vande Gorne, Part 2. Computer Music Journal 2012; 36 (2): 10–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/COMJ_a_00116
electroacoustic, experimental, musique concrete
For a short while I wrote for the No Audience Underground zine TQ
For the past couple of years I put together playlists for the zine to introduce to a wider audience some of the artists that I had listened to since starting my Feminatronic journey. These lists were specific to the zine readership in that the music I selected was deemed to be more challenging, underground , experimental and not always solely female identifying artists. My aim was purely to get a predominantly male readership to consider things maybe outside their comfort zone and mine too.
Due to the natural development of the zine, my article was no longer required and so I thought that I would continue them here, starting with my very first –
My Listening 8 Tracker #1
I’m at the age where I spend a lot of time thinking about the past, some good and some not so good but the simple concept of my listening 8Tracker is based on happy hours of music discovery.
In case some of you don’t know, many years ago as a bored teenager a family acquaintance let me use her 8Track. Do you remember them? Huge cartridges that you fed into the front of a large wooden box, and with giant headphones on, you were transported to new sonic realms, in my case it was Roxy Music ‘Stranded’.
Taking this simple concept, I thought I would put together an 8 Track of my recent listening of musicians from around the world together with links. These artists create music that fits loosely into the NAU sound (there may be some leeway with this) but I think it’s always good to expand your listening horizons and after all this is my personal listening.
Oh, and they mostly also just happen to identify as female, unless otherwise stated ; )
No order. No preferences. Links where available .
Happy Listening.
eggshell
Suzanne Bedlam et les Herbes Folles
France
furiosa aa
https://soundcloud.com/ortie03/tracks
diy, electronic, experimental,noise
Taxidermia for Solo Cello and Electronics
Katarina Gryvul
Ukraine
https://katarinagryvul.bandcamp.com/
electroacoustique, electronic, experimental, ambient, avant-pop, cello, classical contemporary, ethereal vocals,experimental electronic
Wanna SEE
Itta
Korea
Experimental, shamanic, drone, ambient, psychedelic pop
Breadwoman and Other Tales
Anna Homler and Steve Moshier
USA
Experimental drone, electronic music, improv, sampling sound art,sound collage, turntablism
To Vo
Excerpt by Luong Hue Trinh
Viet Nam
Electroacoustic
Isama Noko
Isabel Nogueira and Maia Koenig
Brazil / Argentina
https://maiakoenig.bandcamp.com/music
Alternative, electronic, experimental, chiptune, noise
Eva Van Deuren aka
Orphan Fairytale
Belgium
Self made electronics, toy instruments, cassette loops, small keyboards
So, I’ve just had a little look at some of the Electronic History pages on Instagram and you wouldn’t have thought that there were any women in electronic music / instrument development but did find a few nice posts via Synth History –
Here are this week’s throwback releases and they have a definite Latin American feel…
Collection released 2020
electroacoustic, experimental music, improvisation
2014
experimental, ambient, electroacoustic, industrial, noise, ritual
2018
alternative, electronic, experimental, chiptune, noise
2018
electronic experimental
2012
drum & bass, experimental, cyberpunk, dark electro, dark electronic, experimental electronic, ghost noise, grave wave, psychedelic, witch house
2019
classical contemporary, experimental, acousmatic, electroacoustic, noise
Eclectic as ever…
MNQ 120 Doris Norton – Personal Computer LP
2018
Electronic, cold wave, ebm, electro, minimal, synth techno
The Role of Purity EP (Mundus001)
by Sapphire Slows
2017
Electronic
Louis and Bebe Barron – Forbidden Planet
Original motion picture soundtrack 1956
Eclipse by Pril Smiley
1967
Fundamentals
by Analog Tara
2018
Electronic, ambient, dance, dub, electro, electronic jazz, house, supercollider, techno
Iceberg the Drift
by Christine Webster
2018
Experimental, darkambiant, drone, electroacoustic, minimalist, modular
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