Women in Wires-An International Women's Month Plugged in Celebration
International Women’s Day was this past Sunday and March is International Women’s Month. To commemorate, we’ll be trekking through women who have plugged in, taking command of their sound and going places beyond music convention, with Women in Wires: celebrating Women in Electronic Music. This was a pretty hard show to do 30 or so years ago. Pickings were slim. But now music is full of creative female electronic artists. The documentary, Sisters with Transistors featured many of them in 2021. We’ll hear music from pioneers Wendy Carlos, Suzanne Ciani, and Delia Derbyshire and contemporary artists including Rena Jones, Azam Ali, Lisa Bella Donna, Sharon Van Etten and more, Plug in to Women in Wires on Echoes from PRX.
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Half hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Sharon Van Etten | Jupiter | Remind Me Tomorrow |
| 0:06:00 | Rena Jones | Folding Grace into Empty Spaces | Love Letters |
| 0:11:35 | Lena Natalia | The Time Before Us | The Time Before Us |
| 0:14:17 | Leandrul | Choose | Choose |
| 0:20:20 | Azam Ali | Synesthesia | Synesthesia |
| 0:24:15 | Avawaves | Escape | Heartbeat |
| 0:29:30 | Feldman & Tiley | Kind (excerpt) | Protomensch |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Wendy Carlos | Aurora Borealis | Sonic Seasonings 2009 |
| 0:45:05 | break | ||
| 0:46:33 | frostlake | Parapet | Shattered Stone |
| 0:50:06 | Course | MRI | Hue Mirror |
| 0:53:56 | Hollie Kenniff | Esperance | For Forever |
| 0:59:00 | Adrian Sherwood | The Collapse of Everything (excerpt) | The Collapse of Everything |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Immersion | Change of Use | WTF?? |
| 1:06:00 | Suzanne Ciani | Buchla Improvisation | Victoria Place – Echoes Live 23 (v/a) |
| 1:15:57 | White Noise | Love Without Sound | An Electric Storm |
| 1:18:45 | HAAi | Stitches | Humanise |
| 1:22:55 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Rendering Time | Rendering Time |
| 1:29:30 | Message To Bears | Halflight (excerpt) | Tired Eyes Waking Hearts |
| Fourth Half hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Lisa Bella Donna | Voyage to Metebelis III | Astarotha |
| 1:43:51 | Michelle Qureshi | Bitter Pills | Common Community |
| 1:46:39 | break | ||
| 1:47:29 | Oklou | harvest sky | Choke Enough |
| 1:51:17 | Midori Hirano | Illuminance | OTONOMA |
We remember Country Joe McDonald, of the psychedelic group Country Joe and the Fish. He passed away at age 84.
We’ll also hear from Ambient Americana band SUSS. They return with a haunting album of deep country flanged moods on the album Counting Sunsets. Swaying pedal steel, back porch folk strumming, and desert washed electric sustains fuel this new release. John Diliberto brings us a couple of tracks on Echoes.
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Moby | This Was Never Meant For Us | Future Quiet |
| 0:06:00 | SUSS | Sunset VI | Counting Sunsets |
| 0:11:02 | Anna Von Hausswolff | Aging Young Women feat. Ethel Cain | Iconoclast |
| 0:14:56 | Tauon & Gaia de Isora | Echeyde | Echeyde (Single) |
| 0:19:02 | Koan | The Prisoner of Château D’if | The Prisoner of Château D’if (Single) |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Remembering Country Joe McDonald | ||
| 0:34:19 | Country Joe & The Fish | Section 43 | Electric Music For The Mind And Body |
| 0:37:19 | Country Joe & The Fish | Happiness Is A) Porpoise Mouth | Electric Music For The Mind And Body |
| 0:40:05 | Country Joe and the Fish | Colors for Susan | I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die |
| 0:45:55 | Country Joe & The Fish | Bass Strings | Electric Music For The Mind And Body |
| 0:50:51 | break | ||
| 0:52:29 | Liquid Bloom | Kaya Project: When the Light Gets in (Liquid Bloom & Bloomurian Revibe) | Reimagined Legacies (Liquid Bloom Remixes) |
| 0:56:03 | Eric Hilton | A Sky So Close | A Sky So Close |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Adam Werner | The Hill in Windham | The Hill in Windham |
| 1:06:00 | Joss Jaffe & Jim “Kimo” West | Kelp Forest | Delphinius |
| 1:10:37 | Gem Club | Aperture | Emerald Press |
| 1:14:12 | Conor Hanick | Part 7 | The Book of Sounds |
| 1:20:57 | Ryan Farish | Remember | Heirloom |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Tom Griesgraber | Prairie Suite | The Split |
| 1:32:56 | SUSS | Sunset IV | Counting Sunsets |
| 1:37:39 | Morcheeba | Call for Love | Escape the Chaos |
| 1:41:58 | Jonny Fallout | The Pain and the Love (Forgotten) | Cybertherial II |
| 1:47:02 | break | ||
| 1:47:55 | Golden Blue | A Thousand Times | Museum |
| 1:49:53 | deep sky divers | komorebi | komorebi |
| 1:53:53 | Flore Laurentienne | Regate | Volume III |