Luis Alvarado & Alejandra Cárdenas (Eds.) - Switched On – The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women
The first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music, edited by Luis Alvarado and Alejandra Cárdenas.
Contributions by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, Lílian Campesato, Susan Campos Fonseca, Susana Sánchez Carballo, Constanza Castagnet, Cristina Collazos, Daniela Fugellie, Isabelia Herrera, Nicole L’Huillier, Alma Laprida, Marcela Perrone, Marcela Lucatelli, Ana María Romano G., Adaivis Marrón Pérez, Jacqueline Nova, Sofía Scheps, Madelline Sevilla, Natasha Tiniacos, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, Gabi Yaya.
The official history of 20th-century avant-garde electronic music has been predominantly narrated from the point of view of Anglo-American and Western European experiences and largely remained focused on its male protagonists.
To destabilize this history, this editorial project presents a collection of perspectives, essays, interviews, archival photos, and work reviews centered on the early electronic music production by Latin American female creators, who were active from the 1960s to the 1980s. The book also brings us closer to the work of a new generation of researchers who have focused on offering a non-canonical reading of the history of music and technology in Latin America.
The publication hopes to shed light on what it meant to be a woman in the field of music technology at a time when this was a predominantly masculine domain.
Composers and sound artists featured in this historical account include: Alicia Urreta, Beatriz Ferreyra, Elsa Justel, Eulalia Bernard, Graciela Castillo, Hilda Dianda, Ileana Pérez Velázquez, Irina Escalante Chernova, Iris Sangüesa, Jacqueline Nova, Jocy de Oliveira, Leni Alexander, Margarita Paksa, Marietta Veulens, Mónica O’Reilly Viamontes, Nelly Moretto, Oksana Linde, Patricia Belli, Renée Pietrafesa Bonnet, Rocío Sanz Quirós, Teresa Burga, Vania Dantas Leite, among others.
Hardcover, cloth binding, published in 2024, 208 pages (ill.)
€28.00

Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc.
A must-have for the book & design alone, but of course first of all for the ground-breaking work this man did with inventions like the Clavivox, Circle Mach..(read more)
Label: Basta / 3090782
Artist: Raymond Scott
Medium: Book + CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Early Electronic, Music for Film, Pioneers, Sound Effects, TV Soundtracks.

Pierre Schaeffer - Treatise on Musical Objects
Regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology, finally available in English! Subtitled “An Essay Acro..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520294301
Author: Pierre Schaeffer
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Music Theory, Musique Concrète, Pioneers, Sonology, Sound Studies.

Walking in Circles
Trumpetist Hilde Marie Holsen and vocalist/electronics artist Lynn Cassiers deconstruct distant lounge jazz, psychedelic textures and hiccuping experimental son..(read more)
Label: Stroom / STRLP065
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electronic Music, Improvisation, Soundscapes, Trumpet, Vinyl, Vocal Art.
