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Sisters with Transistors

2020

Lisa Rovner

Documentary, Self: Laurie Anderson, Delia Derbyshire, Suzanne Ciani, Bebe Barron ...

7.2

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Documentary While electronic music is often perceived as a boy’s club, the truth is from the beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that have defined the shape of modern sound. Sisters with Transistors maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music: Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Delia Derbyshire, ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Marta Bałaga Cineuropa	"[It] does what every good documentary, or make that film, always should: it takes a previously little-known story and proves that the world really needed to hear it."
		Charlie Brigden rogerebert.com	"[The narrative] is wonderfully told through a kind of archival collage (...) [It] often feels less like a film and more like a manifesto (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"This film is informative and often fascinating"
		Leonie Cooper NME	"There are so many talents crammed into this film that you may start wondering if your nan might secretly actually be Aphex Twin (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Leslie Felperin The Guardian	"An electrifying study of musical heroines (...) Enchanting (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

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