Interview with Electronic Musician, Neotropic
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Riz Maslen who performs under the moniker Neotropic, is an electronic musician and composer based in the UK. She began releasing records in the mid nineties, and has been highly prolific over the last 2 decades having put out many albums and eps on various labels including Ninja Tune and 4Hero.
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Femmecult 019 Coco Madrid Interview
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Coco Madrid is a Portland-based music promoter, electronic artist and fashion advocate who has been working in the Pacific Northwest underground dance music and fashion scenes for over a decade. In this episode we talk about her experiences growing up in the rave scene, promoting successful events in the city, and making the foray into producing electronic music as part of a collab. This episode features music from that collaboration for her electronic duo called Artificial Sense Tapes.
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Femmecult Radio Episode 18 Jex Blackmore Interview
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Writer and filmmaker, Jex Blackmore, is well known for her confrontational performances held in civic spaces. Her work addresses links between moral religious rhetoric, sexuality, and political policy.
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Beats By Girlz Minneapolis Interview
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Beats by Girlz is a music technology curriculum & collective founded in 2012 by Erin Barra, an Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music. The program was launched to empower young women in music tech by providing access to tools, guidance and role-support to develop their interest and career opportunities in music production. In this episode, Christina Broussard (SciFiSol Music) is in conversation with three facilitators of the MN chapter of BBG: Christine Hoberg, Christin Light, and Tanya Leigh.
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Gudrun Gut (Legendary German Electronic Musician and Record Label Head)
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Gudrun Gut has been an activist in underground music since the 70s, and her discography is comprised of some of the most influential work to come out of electronic music. She’s dabbled in everything from post-punk to techno, was cofounder of the legendary band Malaria!, an original member of Einstürzende Neubauten, and heads up Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik. (Interview conducted by: Christina Broussard of SciFiSol Music)
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Emily Esperanza
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Emily Esperanza is a non-binary filmmaker whose work questions conventional narratives of storytelling to bring progressive ideas into focus. Their 2018 film Make Out Party was the official selection for the Las Vegas Queer Arts Festival, and won the award for most innovative short film at the 23rd Annual TWIST Seattle Queer Film Festival.
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Anna Jordan
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Anna Jordan is a trans-disciplinary artist based in Berlin, who focuses her work in the digital electronic realm as a painter, video artist and electronic musician. Her auditive work is released under her moniker, The Allegorist, for which she has 2 albums out now, and she is quoted as saying its format mixes all styles and genres and sets no limitations. In this interview we speak about her inspirations, technical aspects of her productions, and artistic motivations. Thanks for listening!
info_outlineIn this episode of Femmecult Radio, I interview performer, filmmaker, writer and all around effective troublemaker, Jex Blackmore. She is well known for her confrontational performance art which are usually held in civic spaces. Her work addresses the links between moral religious rhetoric, sexuality, and political policy. She has often been the target of protest by the Catholic Church for her outspoken and confrontational work. She has also been called a tireless crusader for bodily autonomy, in that her work seeks to interrogate oppressive social institutions and ideas that undermine reproductive rights, and the freedom of women to choose what happens to their own bodies.
She has been featured in many publications including TIME, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, NPR, Cosmopolitan and Salon, and was featured in the 2019 documentary "Hail Satan?" Her reproductive rights advocacy has ranged from disrupting anti-choice rallies to debating the Westboro Baptist Church and her recent exhibition in Detroit, "Sex Militant", was listed as one of the best art exhibitions of 2019 by the Chicago Reader.
In 2020, her endurance film "An Undue Burden", that premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, interrogates barbaric, abusive state legislation that forces women to wait 24 hours or more following initial counseling by abortion providers before receiving the procedure.
In this interview we talk about the importance of building supportive communities in hostile environments, the problem with moral frameworks that divide people, and the harm caused by oppressive systems require citizens to conform to ideologies that do not address practical realities of everyday life.
For more on Jex, visit her online: https://www.jexblackmore.com/
Music Credits:
Nikki - SciFiSol Music
https://www.scifisol.net