Tara Rodgers is an American electronic musician, composer, and author. She is a multi-instrumentalist and performs and releases work as Analog Tara.
Education and career
Rodgers graduated from
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
in 1995, earning an AB with Honors in American Studies. She received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from
Mills College in 2006 and earned a PhD in Communication Studies from
McGill University in 2011.
Rodgers was visiting faculty in sound at the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 2004 to 2005. She was a Canada-US
Fulbright
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scholar in Montreal in 2006/2007. From 2010 to 2013 she was an assistant professor of
Women's studies and Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Digital Cultures and Creativity at the
University of Maryland. In 2011 Rodgers established the Women's Studies Multimedia Studio at UMD. Rodgers also served on the faculty of
Dartmouth College in 2013.
Rodgers founded the website PinkNoises.com in 2000 to document the works of
women in electronic music and to provide music production resources. The site was nominated for a
Webby Award in the category of Best Music Web Site in 2003. Her composition, "Butterfly Effects," was inspired by the behaviors of
migrating butterflies. Written in
SuperCollider
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Large accelerators are used for fundamental research in particle ...
, 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
International Alliance for Women in Music (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*
Pink Noises' at Duke University Press
Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University
The Women's Studies Multimedia Studioat the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland
Analog Taraat Bandcamp
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Living people
American women composers
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
21st-century American women musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century women composers
Feminist musicians