Tuesday 1/18: KPFA 'No Other Radio Network'

11:59pm (PST) ::: RADIO: 94.1 FM / Berkeley CA

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LIVE SPOTLIGHT: TARA RODGERS (aka 'Analog Tara')
Live performance in the KPFA studio + interview

hosted by dAS (co-host Ninah Pixie)

Tara will perform a live mix of her recent compositions: The 20 Largest State-to-State Migration Flows, 1995-2000 (Source: US Census Data)

20 compositions that render patterns of movement from census data in synthesized sound. Each sound pulse represents the movement of approximately 83 people. Altogether the sounds reference the state-to-state migrations of 4.6+ million people, many of which were due to economic factors or retirees moving from cold to warmer climates. In the compositions: latitude and longitude coordinates of state capitals determine pitch intervals. Elevation differences between cities generate rhythmic patterns. Directions of pitch intervals illustrate outflow or reverse migration. If pairs of states appeared twice on the list, the most populous cities were substituted for state capitals in the second occurrence.

TARA RODGERS (ANALOG TARA) makes music and writes related cultural analysis. Her current projects explore themes of emergence and survival using research from ecology, immunology, and economics to render patterns of living systems in sound. Tara also publishes Pinknoises.com, a website on women DJs and sound artists that launched in 2000 and was nominated as Best Music Web Site at the 2003 Webby Awards. The site has been an initiative to provide independent media coverage of women making electronic music, make technical information on music production more widely accessible, and provide a forum where issues of music, gender and technology can be discussed.

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT TARA RODGERS: http://www.safety-valve.org

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