Re: Gender and Electronic Music (was Looping Laurie...)

["L Tremblay" <ltct@concentric.net>]

You may want a woman's perspective on this:

Gender and Electronic Music By Hannah Bosma
http://cadre.sjsu.edu/switch/sound/articles/bosma-gend1.html

I don't beleive orgasm is mentioned anywhere in the article
as a determinant for involvement though.

Sorry to disappoint. ;)

- Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Miranda V. <gnominus@earthling.net>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 4:17 PM
Subject: RE: Looping Laurie Anderson


>I think this relates to what Jim Poppen said today about male masturbatory
>tendencies.  Women tend to seek mutual satisfaction rather than their own,
>i.e., "You don't share your feelings," "But honey, we don't talk," etc.  I
>would predict that women will get into looping only in the context of a
>group, where their looping interacts somehow with others.
>
>Come to think of it, I will post another thought separately.
>
>  | -----Original Message-----
>  | From: Mark Sottilaro [mailto:mark@cdm.sfai.edu]
>  | Sent: Saturday 30 October 1999 12:52 PM
>  | To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>  | Subject: Looping Laurie Anderson
>  |
>  | I know we've been through this before, but with a role model like
>  | Laurie, why do we
>  | find so few women interested in working with new tools (such as
loopers)
>  | in Music?
>
>