Feminist Sonic Futures!

Podcast discussing Marie Thompson's "'Your Womb, the Perfect Classroom': Prenatal Sound Systems and Uterine Audiophilia." Podcast title quoted from article.

In this episode of Feminist Sonic Futures, we’ll be discussing Robin James’ “‘Robo-Diva R&B’: Aesthetics, Politics, and Black Female Robots in Contemporary Popular Music,” talking about Black techno soundscapes, listening to some Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Janelle Monáe, and exploring where we may be able to locate embodiment in music through a feminist Afro-Futurist lens. Hope you enjoy! This epis...

In this episode for Feminist Sonic Futures, Rebecca Rosenzweig discusses Tara Rodgers article, '"What, for me, constitutes life in a sound?" Electronic Sounds as Lively and Differentiated Individuals'. Rodgers explores what it means for a sound to be seen as an individual and analogized to living organisms. This article also seeks to historicize audio production and consumption and its implication...

In Episode 6 Season 2 of Feminist Sonic Futures, I discuss the experience and production of sound through a deaf optic, by highlighting the work of two deaf creatives: visual artist Christine Sun Kim and musician Mandy Harvey. Both artists work to challenge the primacy of an aural experiences of sound, creatively engaging the visual and tactile elements of the sonic in their work. Listen to learn...

This episode uses Boden Sandstrom’s “Women Mix Engineers and the Power of Sound” as a starting point to discuss how technology is used as an avenue for gender minorities to enter predominantly male music spaces.

Hello! In this episode of Feminist Sonic Futures, I'll be talking about the sampling the music of Nina Simone by many contemporary hip-hop artists. We'll take a look at how different artists invoke and sample Simone, and how her music and her message of sonic black radicalism are transformed, invoked, and updated through the modern sampling of her music. 

On this episode of Feminist Sonic Futures, we discuss Sarah Cohen's analysis of the Liverpool Indie Rock scene, exploring her arguments about gender, "scene," and rock n' roll. The Liverpool indie rock scene provides a perfect backdrop upon which we can further explore the construction of gender and how rock n' roll maintains its "boy's club" ethos.  This episode includes archival audio: Cast...

Welcome to Season 2 of Feminist Sonic Futures! In this episode, I discuss (aka ramble about) the salient themes from the paper "Geeks, Meta-Geeks, and Gender Trouble: Activism, Identity, and Low-power FM Radio" by Christina Dunbar-Hester, and tie them all together under the lens of binaries. Such themes include gender (masculine versus feminine), knowledge and skill (versus unknowledgeable and uns...

On beat-boxing and gender: Final Project (Peter Choi)

Hi everyone, I’m Siddhanth, and welcome to Nightclubbing . What did you listen to growing up? is a question we don’t ask nearly as much as we should. I want our stories of sound, music, and heritage to be documented as an unofficial pedagogy of joy—a way of history making, a means of which we make sense of the past before charting on increasingly uncertain futures. Give vocabulary, beat, rhythm, g...

A conversation with retired recording engineer Anne Wattis about her experience being a woman sound engineer in the 80s.

This podcast discusses many themes in relation to texts we have read during this semester. Technological expertise in relation to gender is a constant thread. I discuss how Oliveros views technology as disruptive to patriarchal systems that dominate many forms of music, focusing on a piece of hers from 1965 called “Bye Bye Butterfly” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wrNL063Gys ). I then discuss...

Autotune, Technology, and Talent

In this episode I, (Salma Mohamed,  along with the help of my friend Devin, question whether or not artists have the moral obligation to speak about pressing political issues, movements, and ideologies. We flesh out the ways artists have failed to fully engage with these matters in their actions and tend to reduce these issues, movements, or ideologies by using them for branding and aesthetic...

This is a complicated episode where a lot ideas are tied together, but the main questions are: Who should have access to what? Is it possible to find the right balance of privacy and accessibility?

A discussion of the medical-social binary of deafness and the social implications of technological medical advances in dialogue with Mara Mills’ “Do signals have politics? Inscribing abilities in cochlear implants.”

Black Deaf Feminism: A Discussion of Fairness and Frameworks

On “Robo-Diva R&B:” Aesthetics, Politics, and Black Female Robots in Contemporary Popular Music” by Robin James, agency of Black Women within the music industry, and maintaining humanity in the face of controlling images.

A look at the essay "The Nature/Technology Binary Opposition Dismantled in the Music of Madonna and Björk " through the lens of binary structures and disidentification.

Gillian Flynn, XLR Cables, Madonna, and AR-15s! How do they relate? Well, you have to listen to find out. Hopefully, this analytical–yet heartfelt–look into the past and present will give you a peek into a more equitable feminist sonic future.

This episode examines Keir Keightly's article in Popular Music, " 'Turn it down!' She shrieked: Gender, domestic space, and high fidelity"

This is my podcast episode! Sorry its a few minutes late had some confusion with anchor.  

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