Project Detail

Sisters with Transistors

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 transform how we produce and listen to music today.

The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel.

Official Selection SXSW Festival 2020 - 24 Beats Per Second - World premiere
Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 - Rhyme and Rhythm - European premiere

Details

Year
2020
Type of film
Features
Running time
82 min
Director
Lisa Rovner
Producer
Anna Lena Vaney
Executive Producer
Ashleigh Arrell
Editor
Michael Aaglund, Kara Blake, Mariko Montpetit
Director of Photography
Bill Kirstein
Sound
Martha Salogni
Principal cast
Laurie Anderson, Suzanne Ciani, Delia Derbyshire, Laurie Spiegel, Bebe Barron
Associate Producer
Elizabeth Benjamin

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Production Status

Production Company

Anna Lena Films

5 Rue des Suisses
75014 Paris

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