Tara Rodgers is an American electronic musician, composer, and author. She is a multi-instrumentalist who performs and releases work as Analog Tara.

Education and career

Rodgers graduated from

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in 1995, earning an AB with Honors in American Studies. She received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California is part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was relocated to Oakland in ...

in 2006 and earned a PhD in Communication Studies from

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in 2011. Rodgers was visiting faculty in sound at the

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, from 2004 to 2005. She was a Canada-US

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scholar in Montreal in 2006/2007. From 2010 to 2013, she was an assistant professor of

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and Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Digital Cultures and Creativity at the

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. In 2011, Rodgers established the Women's Studies Multimedia Studio at UMD. Rodgers also served on the faculty of

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

in 2013. Rodgers founded the website PinkNoises.com in 2000 to document the works of

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and to provide music production resources. The site was nominated for a

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in the category of Best Music Website in 2003. Her composition, "Butterfly Effects," was inspired by the behaviors of migrating butterflies. Written in

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, it won the IAWM New Genre Prize in 2007. She authored the 2010 book ''Pink Noises: Women On Electronic Music And Sound'', which is a collection of interviews spotlighting female electronic musicians, composers, producers, and DJs. The book received the 2011 Pauline Alderman Award from the

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(IAWM). Following the release of ''Pink Noises'', Rodgers has published essays and lectured on the history of synthesized sound. She is currently working as a composer and performer in the Washington, D.C. area.

References

External links

Official website
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Pink Noises
' at Duke University Press

Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University
The Women's Studies Multimedia Studio
at the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland
Analog Tara
at Bandcamp {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodgers, Tara Living people 21st-century American composers American women writers Brown University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Feminist theorists McGill University alumni Mills College alumni American women in electronic music Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women composers American feminist musicians