LEAF 2024 – Sisters with Transitors

Friday, April 26, 7pm – FREE (with REGISTRATION)

The Collective Community Arts Center 201 N. Public Road Lafayette, CO 80026

April 26: SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is a film screening at The Collective Community Arts Center about the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers. Due to limited seating, please register in advance for this free event.

The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel.

The history of women has been a history of silence. Music is no exception.

With Laurie Anderson as our narrator, we’ll embark on a fascinating journey through the evolution of electronic music. We’ll learn how new devices opened music to the entire field of sound, how electronic music not only changed the modes of production but in its wide-ranging effects also transformed the very terms of musical thought.

Sisters with Transistors is more than just the history of a music genre: it’s the story of how we hear and the critical but little-known role female pioneers play in that story.