Launching the Feminist Library's Women’s History Month programme celebrating Women in Music throughout March. Lola de la Mata and Joanna Ward exchange their influences, research and practices to illustrate some of the ways in which scores and a composer's practice can evolve past the more commonly understood framing of the archaic notion of the lone "pale male and stale" composer.
The conversation touches on Pauline Oliveros' book of Deep Listening, the collection of open scores "Women's Work" published mid 1970s by Annea Lockwood and Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono's Instruction Score inspiring us to scream, Khyam Allami's article "Microtonality and the Struggle for Fretlessness in the Digital Age", Lola Olufemi's "Feminism Interrupted", Eliane Radigue's "The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal", and "Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto" by Legacy Russell...among some other wonderful mentions.
