Sisters with Transistors

Lisa Rovner
2020 - Documentary - 86 min

Sisters with Transistors

country:
United Kingdom, France, United States
language:
English
subtitles:
French

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. —nouveaucinema.ca

 

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