THIS IS AN EXCELLENT LIST OF BOOKS USED FOR MY 2005 THESIS ON WOMEN IN MULTIMEDIA.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPY
Ahtila, Eija-Liisa, Vanessa Beecroft, Willie Doherty, Douglas Gordon, Aernout Mik,
Tony Oursler, Sam Samore, Georgiana Starr, and Gillian Wearing. ID: An
International Survey on the Notion of Identity in Contemporary Art. Eindhoven:
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, 1996.
Ammer, Christine. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music. Portland: Amadeus
Press, 2001.
Anderson, Laurie. The End of the Moon. Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, Miami,
23 October 2004.
Armstrong, Simon and Joan Rothfuss. In the Spirit of Fluxus. Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1993.
Berberian, Cathy. Stripsody. New York: C.F. Peters Corporation, 1966.
Born, Georgina. Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of
the Musical Avante-Garde. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California
Press, 1995.
Bortez, Benjamin and Edward T. Cone, eds. Perspectives on Contemporary Music
Theory. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1972.
Borchert, Gavin. "American Women in Electronic Music, 1984-1994." Contemporary
Music Review. vol. 16. Parts 1 & 2. (1997), 89-97.
Bosse, Joanna. "Creating Options, Creating Music; An Interview with Laurie Spiegel."
Contemporary Music Review. vol. 16. Parts 1 &2. (1997). 81-87.
Bosseur, Jean-Iyves. Sound and the Visual Arts: Intersections Between Music and Plastic
Arts Today. Paris: Dis Voir. 1993.
Bowcott, Peter. "Interfaces for Composition - What About the Composer?"
Contemporary Music Review. vol 15 Parts 3-4. (1996). 27-37.
Boutoux, Thomes, ed. Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews. Vol. 1. Milan: Edzioni Charta,
2003.
Braun, Hans-Joachim, ed. Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore
and London: The John Hopkins U.P., 2000.
Briscoe, James R., ed. Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women. Bloomington:
Indiana U.P., 1997.
Burns, Kristine H. "An Emerging Digital Community: The CD-ROM Artist," In
Organised Sound. Vol. 2, (1997): 13-18.
_____, ed. Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1-
2, Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Burton, Andrew. Madonna. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
Cage, John. Aria. New York: C.F. Peters Corporation, 1960.
_____. Radio Music. New York: Henmar Press, Inc., 1961.
Candy, Linda and Ernest Edmonds. Explorations in Art and Technology. London:
Springer-Verlag London, Ltd., 2002.
Cardew, Cornelius, ed. Scratch Music. London: Latimer New Dimensions, Ltd., 1972.
Carlson, Marvin. Performance: A Critical Introduction. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge
Taylor and Francis Group, 2004.
Carr, Cynthi. On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century. Hanover:
Wesleyan U.P, 1993.
Carson, Fiona and Claire Pajaczkowska, eds. Feminist Visual Culture. Routledge:
Edinburgh U.P., 2001.
Chadabe, Joel. Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music. Upper Saddle
River: Prentice Hall, 1997.
Chaplin, Sarah. “Cyberfeminism.” Feminist Visual Culture. Carson, Fiona and Clair
Pajaczkowska, eds., 270. Routledge: Edinburgh U.P., 1993.
Cook, Nicholas. Analysing Musical Multimedia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Cope, David. The Algorithmic Composer. Madison: A-R Editions, Inc., 2000.
_____. New Directions in Music. 7th ed. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, Inc., 2001.
_____. Techniques of the Contemporary Composer. London: Schirmer Books, 1997.
Dodge, Charles and Thomas A. Jerse. Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and
Performance. 2nd ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.
Duckworth, William, ed. Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass,
Lauie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. New
York: Da Capo Press, 1999.
Dusman, Linda. “No Bodies There: Absence and Presences in Acousmatic Performance.”
Musicand Gender. Moisala, Pirkko and Beverley Diamond, eds. 336-346.Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Elliot, Anthony. The Mourning of John Lennon. Berkeley: University of California
Press.1999.
Gaburo, Kenneth. Dante’s Joynte. ?:Lingua Press, 1976.
______. Twenty Sensing [Instruction] Compositions. ?:Lingua Press, 1976.
Goldberg, Roselee. Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc.,1988.
Goodman, Cynthia. Digital Visions: Computers and Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Inc., 1987.
Graham, Rob. Theater: A Crash Course. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999.
Hall, Charles J. A Chronicle of American Music: 1700-1995. New York: Schirmer Books,
1996.
Halstead, Jill. The Woman Composer. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.
Hedges, Elaine and Ingrid Wendt. In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts. New
York: The Feminist Press, 1980.
Higgins, Dick. Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois U.P., 1984.
Johnson, Deborah and Wendy Oliver, eds. Women Making Art: Women in the Visual and
Performing Arts since 1960. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2001.
Lebrecht, Norman. Who Killed Classical Music?: Maestros, Managers, and Corporate
Politics. London: Carol Publishing Group Edition, 1997.
Le Page, Jane Weiner. Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the Twentieth
Century: Selected Biographies. Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1980.
Liestol, Gunnar, Andrew Morrison, and Terje Rasmussen, eds. Digital Media Revisited:
Theoretical and Conceptual Innovation in Digital Domains. Cambridge: The MIT
Press, 2003.
Lovejoy, Margot. Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media.
2nd ed. Upper Saddle River: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Lysoff, Rene’ T. and Leslie C. Gay, Jr., eds. Music and Technoculture. Middletown:
Wesleyen U.P., 2003.
MacArthur, Sally. Feminist Aesthetics in Music. Westport; Greenwood Press., 2002.0
McClary, Susan. Feminist Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
Miranda, Eduardo Reck and Francis Rumsey, ed. Composing with Computers. Oxford:
Focal Press, 2001.
Moisala, Pirkko and Beverley Diamond, eds. Music and Gender. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 2000.
Murphie, Andrew and Joh Potts. Culture & Technology.Houndmills: Palgrave
MacMillan, 2003.
Nicholls, David. American Experimental Music; 1890-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge
U.P., 1990.
Neuls-Bates, Carol, ed., "Marcia J. Cintron: Musicologist" Women in Music. Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1996.
_____. "Nancy van de Vate." Women in Music. Boston: Northeastern University Press,
1996.
Nyman, Michael. Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. 2nd ed. Cambridge:
Cambridge U.P., 1999.
Oliveros, Pauline. "Acoustic and Virtual Space as a Dynamic Element of Music."
Leonardo Music Journal: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences,
and Technology. vol. 5 (1995), 19-22.
_____ . Deep Listening Pieces. Kingston: Deep Listening Publications, 1990.
_____. Sonic Meditations. Smith Publications, 1974.
Paul, Christiane. Digital Art. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2003.
Pendell, Karin, ed. Women & Music: A History. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana U.P.,
2001.
Randall, Annie Janeiro. "Eyes on the Composition Prize." Contemporary Music Review.
vol. 16. Parts 1 &2. (1997). 105-111.
Ravenal, John B., ed. Outer & Inner Space: Pipilorri Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane & Louise
Wilson, and the History of Video Art. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond:
University of Washington Press, 2002.
Reich, Steve. Pendulum Music. London: Universal Edition, Ltd., 1980.
Read, Gardner. Pictographic Score Notation: A Compendium. Westport: Greenwood
Publishing Group, Inc., 1998.
Rollig, Stella, ed. Her: Video as a Female Terrain. New York: Springer Wein NewYork,
?.
Rosemont, Penelope, ed. Surrealist Women: An International Anthology. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1998.
Rowe, Robert. Interactive Music Systems: Machine Listening and Composing.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1993.
Rush, Michael. New Media in the Late 20th Century. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc.,
1999.
Rzewski, Frederic. Les Moutons de Panurge. Tokyo: Zen-On Music Co., 1980.
Sawelson-Gorse, Naomi, ed. Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998.
Schimmel, Paul, ed. Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979.
The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles:Thames
and Hudson, 1998.
Schwartz, Elliot and Barney Childs with Jim Fox, eds. Contemporary Composers on
Contemporary Music, Expanded Edition. New York: De Capo Press, 1998.
Seashore, Carl E. "Why No Great Women Composers?" Music Educator’s Journal,
1940. Women in Music. Carol Neuls-Bates, ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press,
1996.
Sewell, Gilber T., ed. The Eighties: A Reader. Reading: Perseus Books, 1997.
Shapiro, Andrew. "Catching Up with Meredith Monk." 21rst Century Music. vol. 9.
Num. 5. (May 2002). 1-3.
Smyth, Ethel. "Female Pipings in Eden." Women in Music. Carol Neuls-Bates, ed.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996.
Stolba, K. Marie. The Development of Western Music: A History. Vol. II. Dubuque:
McGraw Hill. 1990.
Stone, Kurt. Music Notation in the Twentieth Century: A Practical Guidebook. New
York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1980.
Thome, Diane. “Reflections on Collaborative Process and Compositional Revolution.”
Leonardo Music Journal: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences,
and Technology. vol. 5 (1995), 29-32.
Walker Art Center. Let’s Entertain Life’s Guilty Pleasures. Minneapolis: Walker Art
Center, 2000.
Warren, Alycin. Molly. 1997.
Whiting, John. "The Deconstructing of Society and the Restructuring of Art."
Contemporary Music Review. vol 15 Parts 3-4. (1996).71-76..
Zurbrugg, Nicholas, ed. Art, Performance , Media, 31 Interviews. Minneapolis:
University of Minneapolis Press, 2004.
SELECT ELECTRONIC SOURCES
Anderson, Laurie. Puppet Motel. CD-ROM. Paris: Gallimard, 1995.
_____. Laurie Anderson.Com. < http://www.laurieanderson.com/>, 07 11 2004.
Ars Electronica.
Art Interactive. “Rebecca Allen, Bush Soul #3.”
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Creative Music. 9 23 04.
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CDeMUSIC. “Pamela Z.”
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Gallerie DeLuxxe. “Allison Knowles.”
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The Village Voice. January 9, 1996.
Gigliotti, Carol. “Women and the Aesthetics of New Media.”
Golden, Barbara.
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2004.
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empyre-], 1 12 2003. Archived at
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Oliveros, Pauline. “And Don’t Call Them Ladies.”
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_____. “Tripping On Wires: The Wireless Body: Who is Improvising?” Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. 24 9 2004.
Pamela Z.”Bio.”
Peebles, Sara.
Pengilly, Sylvia. “Sylvia Pengilly.”
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Roberts, Mary Lee. “Being Around Brenda Hutchinson.”
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2002. 15th Anniversary CD-ROM. Brisbane: FineArt Forum, 2002.
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Resources@People.
2004.
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Resources@People.
2004.
_____. “Raymond and Megan Roberts Ghirado.”
Resources@People.
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About Sound FX
30 CHEAP SPECIAL FX HINTS
1. Make your own home camera filters using a plastic sandwich bag filled with different liquids or gels.
2. By using non-revealing camera angles and different costumes and wigs, you can double or triple your cast for non-essential roles.
3. Never underestimate the power of a miniature set with good lighting.
4. Sound can make or break your film. If you can't afford good sound, dub it in later.
5. A cheap mic Pop Filter can be made with a circle of wire and pantyhose.
6. Use perspective to your advantage...can't afford a huge set...? Use camera placement to trick the eye.
7. Create those swirly filters in-camera by shooting through a clear container full of water (just watch for electrical cables).
8. Make a boiling planet by taking an overhead shot of scrambled eggs in a frying pan dyed with food coloring.
9. Hangers work great for prosthetics that don't need much mobility.
10. Buy blankets with different patterns (ex. waves or sand), as a cheap landscape for your miniatures.
11. Stop motion animated water can be made with thick hair gel (it stays in place after movement is made).
12. Go to the toy store or dollar store to purchase ready-made props for miniature sets.
13. Use different combinations of cheap eye shadow to create convincing bruises.
14. If your computer software takes too long to render, try exporting small internet-sized videos to check for mistakes. With some programs, that may take only 25% of the time of a full render, and you have something portable to share.
15. Always buy cheap special fx makeup after Halloween. You can also stock up on great costumes, wigs, and props.
16. Beef jerky hot-glued to a knife looks a lot like flesh when mixed with fake blood.
17. Don't buy fake blood, just make it -Corn syrup, red food coloring, and a single drop of blue food coloring.
18. Practice aging yourself. (Older-dark makeup on shadows and lines. Younger-lighter makeup on shadows and lines.) Don't know where your shadows are? Make a "fish-face", angle your face slightly downward, and look in a mirror with overhead light.
19. Test your imagination by taking a box of random junk and making a creature out of it.
20. Don't have enough medieval hoods? Have everyone wrap large brown or black t-shirts around their heads, hiding the sleeves.
21. Miniature sets are often a lot more time-efficient than computer generated imagery if your computer is slow. While storyboarding, try to see what elements may be more efficiently worked out with a miniature. Then you can dedicate more time to complex scenes.
22. If you need to demolish something, always have a spare around in case you need to reshoot previous scenes.
23. For a quick, cheap, washable solution (great in educational settings), you can use Crayola markers for some simple makeup work (tatoos, fantasy marks), etc. This is only good for short scenes where sweating does not play a factor.
24. A trip to the grocery store can provide some cheap alternatives to expensive materials (ex. chunky strawberry preserves for guts, baby powder for gray hair or ghosts, clear hair gel for a goopy creature, ketchup for blood spurts).
25. When you are limited in time or computers, try to do as many effects in-camera as possible. Believe it or not, the urgency of getting the perfect shot in a minimum number of takes will produce better results than a scene you know that you can "fix in post".
26. Crappy sound during production will still be crappy sound in post production (nope, there is NOT a good way to get rid of the airplane roar during dialogue).
27. Master several different voice changes for yourself. You never know when you may need a child's voice or an extra with a foreign accent.
28. Don't have the latest Final Cut Pro or Avid software? See what you DO have and then explore the possibilities. Sometimes you can cover up cheap software by creating a convincing stylized look (ex. grainy, monochromatic, pixelated, home video, cell phone movie, etc.).
29. Study color theory to get some ideas about creating eye-catching sets. (A good example is the very stylized color schemes of CSI Miami, the House of Hidden Daggers, or Sweeney Todd..a little overboard sometimes, but still more interesting than just mixing whatever colors are available.)
30. Don't create a set if you can find a ready-made set. A university open at midnight, a public park, an abandoned building, local graveyards, or a church are examples of all kinds of locations that can easily be usurped for location shots.
1. Make your own home camera filters using a plastic sandwich bag filled with different liquids or gels.
2. By using non-revealing camera angles and different costumes and wigs, you can double or triple your cast for non-essential roles.
3. Never underestimate the power of a miniature set with good lighting.
4. Sound can make or break your film. If you can't afford good sound, dub it in later.
5. A cheap mic Pop Filter can be made with a circle of wire and pantyhose.
6. Use perspective to your advantage...can't afford a huge set...? Use camera placement to trick the eye.
7. Create those swirly filters in-camera by shooting through a clear container full of water (just watch for electrical cables).
8. Make a boiling planet by taking an overhead shot of scrambled eggs in a frying pan dyed with food coloring.
9. Hangers work great for prosthetics that don't need much mobility.
10. Buy blankets with different patterns (ex. waves or sand), as a cheap landscape for your miniatures.
11. Stop motion animated water can be made with thick hair gel (it stays in place after movement is made).
12. Go to the toy store or dollar store to purchase ready-made props for miniature sets.
13. Use different combinations of cheap eye shadow to create convincing bruises.
14. If your computer software takes too long to render, try exporting small internet-sized videos to check for mistakes. With some programs, that may take only 25% of the time of a full render, and you have something portable to share.
15. Always buy cheap special fx makeup after Halloween. You can also stock up on great costumes, wigs, and props.
16. Beef jerky hot-glued to a knife looks a lot like flesh when mixed with fake blood.
17. Don't buy fake blood, just make it -Corn syrup, red food coloring, and a single drop of blue food coloring.
18. Practice aging yourself. (Older-dark makeup on shadows and lines. Younger-lighter makeup on shadows and lines.) Don't know where your shadows are? Make a "fish-face", angle your face slightly downward, and look in a mirror with overhead light.
19. Test your imagination by taking a box of random junk and making a creature out of it.
20. Don't have enough medieval hoods? Have everyone wrap large brown or black t-shirts around their heads, hiding the sleeves.
21. Miniature sets are often a lot more time-efficient than computer generated imagery if your computer is slow. While storyboarding, try to see what elements may be more efficiently worked out with a miniature. Then you can dedicate more time to complex scenes.
22. If you need to demolish something, always have a spare around in case you need to reshoot previous scenes.
23. For a quick, cheap, washable solution (great in educational settings), you can use Crayola markers for some simple makeup work (tatoos, fantasy marks), etc. This is only good for short scenes where sweating does not play a factor.
24. A trip to the grocery store can provide some cheap alternatives to expensive materials (ex. chunky strawberry preserves for guts, baby powder for gray hair or ghosts, clear hair gel for a goopy creature, ketchup for blood spurts).
25. When you are limited in time or computers, try to do as many effects in-camera as possible. Believe it or not, the urgency of getting the perfect shot in a minimum number of takes will produce better results than a scene you know that you can "fix in post".
26. Crappy sound during production will still be crappy sound in post production (nope, there is NOT a good way to get rid of the airplane roar during dialogue).
27. Master several different voice changes for yourself. You never know when you may need a child's voice or an extra with a foreign accent.
28. Don't have the latest Final Cut Pro or Avid software? See what you DO have and then explore the possibilities. Sometimes you can cover up cheap software by creating a convincing stylized look (ex. grainy, monochromatic, pixelated, home video, cell phone movie, etc.).
29. Study color theory to get some ideas about creating eye-catching sets. (A good example is the very stylized color schemes of CSI Miami, the House of Hidden Daggers, or Sweeney Todd..a little overboard sometimes, but still more interesting than just mixing whatever colors are available.)
30. Don't create a set if you can find a ready-made set. A university open at midnight, a public park, an abandoned building, local graveyards, or a church are examples of all kinds of locations that can easily be usurped for location shots.

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Thanks for this valuable resource, Sabrina!
- Clare Shore
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