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Sisters With Transistors review – an electrifying study of musical heroines | Musique Non Stop

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Friday, April 23, 2021

Sisters With Transistors review – an electrifying study of musical heroines

The unsung trailblazers behind electronic music are paid harmonic homage in Lisa Rovner’s enchanting documentary

Lisa Rovner’s superb documentary pays a deeply deserved, seldom-expressed tribute to the female composers, musicians and inventors from the brief history of electronic music. The focus falls on about nine or 10 women in the field, from experimental music pioneer Clara Rockmore, a Theremin maestro in bias-cut evening dress, through to the British composer and mathematician Delia Derbyshire (probably best known for co-creating the Doctor Who theme), up to Suzanne Ciani, the first woman to score a major Hollywood movie (The Incredible Shrinking Woman in 1981) and her contemporary, composer and early software designer Laurie Spiegel.

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Sisters with Transistors is released on 23 April on digital platforms.

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by Leslie Felperin via Electronic music | The Guardian

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