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The Science of Sound

With a nod to 2024's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Elizabeth Alker selects ambient electronic music by women who use technology in dynamic, pioneering ways.

With a nod to this year’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11th of February), Elizabeth Alker showcases some of the many female musicians and composers who take scientific processes and techniques as their inspiration or are involved in musically-oriented technological development themselves. Ever since Daphne Oram invented her Oramics Machine for creating optoelectronic music in the 1960s, women have not only played - but helped to modify and develop - instruments and harmonic technologies. Tune in for the best of the new sounds coming out of this tradition - from contemporary artists like µώΒαΓ¶°ω°μ, Anna Meredith and Rani Jambak - alongside archive tracks from the early pioneers.

Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Thu 8 Feb 2024 23:30
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Music Played

  • Holly Herndon

    Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

    • Proto.
    • 4AD.

  • Rani Jambak

    Suara Minangkabau

    • Suara Minangkabau.

  • Anna Meredith

    Return

    • The End We Start From (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

  • Daphne Oram

    Pulse Persephone

    • Oramics.
    • Paradigm Discs.

  • Nwando Ebizie

    I Seduce

    • The Swan.
    • Accidental Records.

  • Pauline Oliveros

    Bye Bye Butterfly

    • Electronic Works.
    • Paradigm Discs.

  • Laura Cannell

    The Earth Under The Sea

    • SEALORE.
    • Brawl Records.

  • Beth Gibbons

    Floating In A Moment

    • Lives Outgrown.

  • µώΒαΓ¶°ω°μ

    Moon

    • Biophilia.
    • One Little Indian.

  • Loula Yorke

    It's Been Decided That If You Lie Down No One Will Die

    • Volta.

  • Hinako Omori

    foundation

    • Stillness, Softness....
    • Houndstooth.

  • Suzanne Ciani

    The First Wave: The Birth Of Venus

    • Seven Waves.
    • Finnadar Records.

  • Carolina Eyck

    Elliptic Orbit

    • Thetis 2086.
    • Neue Meister.

Broadcast

  • Thu 8 Feb 2024 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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