Re: [microsound] american female exp. composers

[pachinkostudio <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ciao david,

it's mainly a social/cultural thing partly due to the approach to 
technology in Japan. I was always surprided by the number of female 
electronic artists (experimental or not) in Tokyo, not only musicians 
but also vjs and videomakers.

ale***


david wrote:
> hello list,
>
> yesterday, while listening to some beautiful sounds from sawako i started counting all the female artists in my catalogue and to my total surprise i could not find any american!
>
> there is a good number of japanese (sawako, sachiko, haco, miroque, amy yoshia, miki yui, o.blaat, yuko nexus....), some europeans (kaffe matthews, agf, zavoloka, olivia block, andrea neumann..., no italians though) but no-one from usa. 
>
> now, it seems very peculiar to me that there are so many japanese female experimental composers and so few americans, any thought about this? 
> what is the social/cultural reason? 
>
> please note that i am talking of experimental music, not techno, not electronica, not anything commercial.
>
> david.
>
> http://www.microsuoni.com

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