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

STEIM - Cracklebox
A by now legendary little noise box conceived and built by Michel Waisvisz, who was a sound artist and for a long time director of STEIM, the Amsterdam Institut..(read more)
Label: Own
Artist: STEIM
Medium: Gadget
Category: Instruments & Gadgets.
Tags: Electronic Music, Gadgets.

Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe
The Expanding Universe is the classic 1980 debut album by composer and computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel. The album is reissued here for the first time in a..(read more)
Label: Unseen Worlds / UW09
Artist: Laurie Spiegel
Medium: 2CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Early Electronic, Minimal, Pioneers.

Dziga Vertov - Man with a movie camera
Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors[2], by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife El..(read more)
Label: Moskwood Media / 2076
Artist: Dziga Vertov
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Classics, Documentary, Pioneers, Russia.
