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Sisters with Transistors

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SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly revolutionize how we produce and listen to music today. Narrated by Laurie Anderson, the film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music and restored the central role of women in the history of music and society at large. Featuring Clara Rockmore, Suzanne Ciani, Laurie Spiegel, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher and Bebe Barron.
Sisters with Transistors

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Critics Consensus

An essential tribute to the women behind electronic music, Sisters with Transistors offers an engaging audio-visual feast that elevates its subjects' gripping stories.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas AWFJ.org Aug 7, 2021
The future was always within reach for women in electronic music, and this film thus acts as both a tribute, a homage and a roadmap to how they got to where they are today. Go to Full Review
Claire Shaffer Rolling Stone Apr 29, 2021
3.5/5
Sisters With Transistors treats both its subjects and audience with care and intelligence, and its form takes cues from the very genre that it centers on. Go to Full Review
Wendy Ide Observer (UK) Apr 25, 2021
4/5
What a joy is a documentary that neither talks down to its audience nor diminishes its subject. Go to Full Review
Geoffrey Macnab iNews.co.uk Jan 16, 2025
3/5
[The] documentary isn’t always easy to follow but the adventurous, impressionistic approach is entirely in keeping with the material. Go to Full Review
Bethan Ackerley New Scientist Jul 19, 2023
I defy you to watch Sisters With Transistors without feeling transported to another time and place. Let the stories of these groundbreaking women and their work wash over you, and you will find yourself caught up in the current. Go to Full Review
Milana Vujkov Lola On Film Dec 3, 2021
4/5
Brimming with Promethean insight on the relationship between human and machine - yet is also subdued in form, aiming for precision rather than panache. Go to Full Review
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Lisa Rovner

Director

Laurie Anderson

Narrator

Clara Rockmore

Actor

Suzanne Ciani

Actor

Laurie Spiegel

Actor

Pauline Oliveros

Actor

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Synopsis SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly revolutionize how we produce and listen to music today. Narrated by Laurie Anderson, the film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music and restored the central role of women in the history of music and society at large. Featuring Clara Rockmore, Suzanne Ciani, Laurie Spiegel, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher and Bebe Barron.
Director
Lisa Rovner
Producer
Anna Vaney, Marcus Werner Hed, Anna Lena Vaney
Screenwriter
Lisa Rovner
Production Co
Anna Lena Films, Willow Glen Films
Genre
Documentary, Music
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 23, 2021
Runtime
1h 26m
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