Tara Rodgers

Tara Rodgers is an American electronic musician, composer, and author.[1] She is a multi-instrumentalist and performs and releases work as Analog Tara.[2]

Education and career

Rodgers graduated from Brown University in 1995, earning an AB with Honors in American Studies.[3][4] She received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in 2006 and earned a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University in 2011.

Rodgers was visiting faculty in sound at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 2004 to 2005. She was a Canada-US Fulbright scholar in Montreal in 2006/2007.[5] From 2010 to 2013 she was an assistant professor of Women's studies and Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Digital Cultures and Creativity at the University of Maryland. She established the Women's Studies Multimedia Studio there. Rodgers also served on the faculty of Dartmouth College in 2013.[6]

Rodgers founded the website PinkNoises.com in 2000 to document the works of women in electronic music and to provide music production resources.[7][8] The site was nominated for a Webby Award in the category of Best Music Web Site in 2003.[9] Her composition, "Butterfly Effects," was inspired by the behaviors of migrating butterflies.[10] Written in SuperCollider, it won the IAWM New Genre Prize in 2007.[11][12] She authored the 2010 book Pink Noises: Women On Electronic Music And Sound, which is a collection of interviews spotlighting female electronic musicians, composers, producers, and DJs.[13] The book received the 2011 Pauline Alderman Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM).[14]

Rodgers is currently working as a performing artist as well as writing a feminist history of synthesized sound. She is based in the Washington, D.C. area.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Tara Rodgers | Sounding Out!". Soundstudiesblog.com. 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
  2. ↑ "Analog Tara Discography". Discogs. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
  3. ↑ "Fresh Ink". Brown Alumni Magazine. May–June 2010.
  4. ↑ "Americans are a race of frustrated baseball heroes: Gender, baseball and softball in the United States, 1900-1950". WorldCat. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Three Mills College Alumnae Named Fulbright Scholars". Mills College. June 13, 2006.
  6. ↑ "Digital Musics Highlights". The Graduate Program. January 30, 2013.
  7. ↑ Piasta, Jacquie (June 7, 2010). "Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound". Elevate Difference.
  8. ↑ "Tara Rodgers: Patterns of Movement Pre-Show Interview". Stamp Gallery. July 17, 2012.
  9. ↑ "7th Annual Webby Awards: Music". The Webby Awards. 2003.
  10. ↑ "Tara Rodgers - Interviewed by Corina MacDonald". Vague Terrain. November 15, 2007.
  11. ↑ Rodgers, Tara (2006). "Butterfly Effects: Synthesis, Emergence, and Transduction" (PDF). Leonardo Electronic Almanac 14 (8).
  12. ↑ "Search for New Music by Women Composers: Past Award Recipients". International Alliance for Women in Music. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  13. ↑ Matos, Michaelangelo (March 18, 2010). "Tara Rodgers: Pink Noises". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
  14. ↑ "Past Pauline Alderman Awards Recipients". International Alliance for Women in Music. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  15. ↑ "UMD Faculty Dance Concert". The Clarice (University of Maryland). Retrieved August 9, 2014.

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