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Women pioneers in electronic music

Beatriz Ferreyra

Micheline Coulombe Saint Marcoux

Laurie Spiegel

Ryūichi Sakamoto working on his Fairlight CMI (1984)

Transgender synth pioneer, Wendy Carlos (1939). She composed the TRON soundtrack—one of my favorites actually, with its unusual love theme and perfectly placed electronic action beats. She also composed music for A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and THE SHINING. Much more commercially successful though was SWITCHED-ON BACH (1968).

On the topic of her gender transition, she said,

“The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent... There had never been any need of this charade to have taken place. It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life.”

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A fan vaults through the window of Fela Kuti’s home in Nigeria

ph. Bruno Barbey