Analog Tara Puts Techno-Feminist Theory Into Practice
Tara Rodgers has spent her career investigating the world of electronic sound, while advocating for equal representation within its community. A new suite of songs smoothly continues that work.
The lack of women's visibility in the world of electronic music had, by the late '90s, exhausted the composer, academic, historian and optimist Tara Rodgers. Roused by the loosely-knit federation of feminists that surfaced out of Riot Grrrl's punky strain of activism, Rodgers set out to address the gender deficit by creating an analogous movement by and for women in electronic music, wherever they were. By the turn of the century, pinknoises.com — a digital sanctuary where Rodgers could promote the work of female electronic musicians, link up networks of artists, even provide tools and inclusive resources for the electronically-inclined — was alive. Ten years after that, Rodgers' project had formed the bedrock of an even more pointed
