Now* on Radio 4, Archive on 4: The Woman-Machine (* Saturday evening)

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Elizabeth Alker describes how women composers from Pauline Oliveros to Anna Meredith have grasped the chance offered by electronic music to create a sound of their own.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xdgj

I'm looking forward to listening to this later, it features some highly significant pioneers of modern music. Pauline Oliveros' music and ideas have been hugely influential in contemporary electronic music. Éliane Radigue is a favourite composer of mine.

It was good. I loved the section where women were discussing that, as a genre, electronic music was particularly suited to women composers while being presented as tech-heavy and best suited to men. Also, Anna Meredith, who I'm doomed to always being a day too early or too late to be able to see.

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After posting the thread I realised it should have gone in the general feminism section.

The BBC published an article today, Oksana Linde and the forgotten pioneers of electronic music, mainly on women composers, it may be of interest to listeners of the above Radio 4 programme.

Also, this month's issue of The Wire magazine has a primer on Pauline Oliveros' music and an interview with her partner.