gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) (03/21/91)
Here we are in comp.music, and not a peep about women who use computers to make music. How about Maria ** [Teresa?] des Oyens, Kaaija Saariaho [just did a 2 hour show of her for womyn's history month on my radio show, only to have a couple of womyn call me to tell me that this was not "womyn's music!"], and Frances White [who I believe bagged the big one at Bourges this year for her "Still Life with Piano."] There's also Mara Helmuth at Columbia.... Of course, here I am stuck out in dairyland unable to do much other than guess at the rest. Can the left/rightcoasters aid us in this task so that the list does not consist solely of dead, white northern European womyn? -- I am so lonely for the twentieth century,/for the deeply felt, obscene graffiti/of armed men and the beautiful bridges/that make them so small and carry them/into the hearts of cities written like words/across nothing,/the dense void history became in my beautiful century/gtaylor/608-828-3385
roger@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig) (03/22/91)
In article <213@heurikon.heurikon.com> gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) writes: >Here we are in comp.music, and not a peep about women who use computers >to make music. How about Maria ** [Teresa?] des Oyens, Kaaija Saariaho >[just did a 2 hour show of her for womyn's history month on my radio >show, only to have a couple of womyn call me to tell me that this was >not "womyn's music!"], and Frances White [who I believe bagged the big >one at Bourges this year for her "Still Life with Piano."] There's also >Mara Helmuth at Columbia.... >Of course, here I am stuck out in dairyland unable to do much other than >guess at the rest. Can the left/rightcoasters aid us in this task so >that the list does not consist solely of dead, white northern European >womyn? Frances is not dead; I'm pretty sure of that--unless it was her double walking by with a coffee yesterday. Around here, living women doing computer-music include the Net's own Linda Seltzer, Katherine Norman, Alicyn Warren (an AMS 50 prizewinner), and others. Down at UVA you can study with Prof. Judith Shatin (also an occasional netter). I haven't seen Shulamit Ran on the composer list. One could also add Dika Newlin and hundreds of others. For conductors, add Antonia Brico and Margaret Hillis. Barbara Schubert conducts the U of Chi orchestra. Roger