Sounding Out Genders: Women Sound Artists Talk about Gender and Technology Panel Statement 3

Symposium:

• ISEA95: Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Sounding Out Genders: Women Sound Artists Talk about Gender and Technology

• Sounding Out Genders: Women Sound Artists Talk about Gender and Technology Panel Statement 3

• Hildegard Westerkamp

Venue(s):

• Hôtel Le Méridien, Montreal, Canada

• There is a complex and mysterious place between a sound and the listener’s experience of it. A quiet place perhaps, or a noisy one. Perhaps a psychic playing field, where anything can happen. Isn’t it the place where the feminine within each of us or within a whole culture receives sonic events differently than the masculine? How on earth can these differences be defined in words? And can they be distinguished from other ones (physical, technological, social, religious, political, environmental, etc.)? Or shall we pay attention to the playing field itself: listening to the listening?

Category:

• Panel