SEMINAR: Mastering Sex in and out of the Studio
Breaking with the musical idealism perpetuated in electroacoustic lore, this article responds to George Lewis’s invitation “[to remove] the putative proscription on nonpopular music” from investigations of electroacoustic music. The paper explores examples of inherited meaning in relation to gender, sexuality and race to show how electroacoustic music necessarily inherits meaning through citation, thus drawing electroacoustic theories closer in line with current musical practices.
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Biography
Danielle Sofer is a lecturer at Maynooth University, Ireland. She completed her PhD with distinction at the Kunstuniversität Graz with the dissertation, “Making Sex Sound: Erotic Currents in Electronic Music.” A music theorist attuned to gendered hearings and sensitive to cultural context, Danielle has published on music by Elizabeth Maconchy, Juliana Hodkinson, and Barry Truax and on the reception of Adorno’s ‘listening typology’.