What would it mean to tell the history of electronic music through women? This night of cutting-edge music technology demos will begin with a talk by music/media scholar Amy Skjerseth, who will show how crucial TV demos–specifically by 20th-century women–have been to electronic music's success.From violinist Clara Rockmore’s theremin
concerts and Delia Derbyshire’s work on the Doctor Who theme to Wendy Carlos’s BBC demonstrations with Switched on Bach and Suzanne Ciani's synthesizer debut on David Letterman, these women demonstrated unfamiliar musical instruments and made their sounds indispensable to science fiction soundtracks, commercial jingles, and entire new genres that dominate music today, such as EDM. Then, Mari Kimura, violinist/composer/entrepreneur, will discuss MUGIC, a motion sensor system she developed, in order to build a lasting tool for human expression rather than creating fleeting technology for the sake of novelty. She will show the ever-expanding use of MUGIC, not only in music and art, but into arts and therapy.