Tara Rodgers: Artist Talk & Performance

Tuesday, October 8
12:30 pm
@ EH (New Annandale House)

Dr. Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara) is a multi-instrumentalist composer, sound engineer, and historian of electronic music. She is the author of Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (2010) and numerous essays on the history of sound and synthesizers. Her music is described as “regal and atmospheric” (Resident Advisor) and “bold in the precision and subtlety it takes to mix such signals with thrill and grace and restraint” (NPR Music).

Premiere performance of “life of the mother,” a new ambient electronic music album imagining the depth, expansiveness, complexity, and power that this phrase holds. From the sounds of a vintage ARP 2500 and modern noise synths run through a DJ mixer, to algorithmic percolations of analog synths, the music blends emergent systems, improvisation, and intention into a complex and dynamic whole. With discussion of studio techniques in making the album.