Sisters with Transistors

But only with more diversity of women.

An article made me aware that this movie only features western European descendent or white women.

While it is an omage to people being overlooked it overlooks others.

A woman to many people is still mainly a white woman.

But even in electronic music there were many women of none European descendent who contributed.

I am myself fascinated with the amount of women in electronic music and this movie came out when I started to understand that I as a woman feel home in modular synthesis and electronic music.

Even more fascinated was I when seeing that there were woman like me before literally pioneering the field I feel home in.

Even more women who were and think or thought like me. Like role models I was always craving as I grew up.

I don't look at people based on their appearance. To me every woman is a woman and I was flattered seeing other women doing wonderful things. But know I am left wondering why there are only white women in the movie.

I don't think anyone had any racial intention here. It is just the white women were more easily to be rediscovered. But there are so many more out there. Women of all cultures.

It is only reflecting how much more powerful we women are if we keep digging deeper.

The reasons women of color are overlooked are the same why women in general were oberlooked. Stereotypes.

Now they try to break with stereotypes of white women thinking they were representing all women. But no.

This movie is an attempt to break with stereotyoes but it is not going far enough and is deepening stereotypes.

To be honest, I was a bit bored by the movie. I felt there was so much more to all those stories of great women and at some point I felt the makers ran out of money or so.

I think if more money would gave been 8nvested they could have and wpuld have be allowed to dig deeper.

The trailer was great, but the movie lacked the same power.

If this had been a documentry about men much more money would have been invested toshow their stories in the exciting way it was.

I recommend the movie, because for it to be of so much importance. But I believe this is just the beginning of something bigger giving all the talented women of electronic music the light they deserve to be represented in no matter what origine they were or are.

7 stars for I love how the existence of that movie moticate me becoming a woman of electronic music.

This is a well crafted documentary on the contributions of a handful notable women to early electronic music. Up through the 1960's, electronic music was effectively all experimental and this documentary focuses on this side of the medium. (So don't expect any dance music-what many people think of when they think of electronic music now days.) About the only complaint I would make about this film is something which is a common challenge for many creative works: I felt it started to lose momentum toward the end and dragged out a bit longer than it needed to.

As a male electronic composer myself, I was aware of a few of the women like Wendy Carlos, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Anderson. But was amazed at so many female pioneers I never heard of, and the lengths they went to achieve what they were after. And that their main objective, regardless of how talented and proficient they were of any standard instrument; was to evoke emotion and thought through amplified sound. And without causing controversy here, I find that most male synthesists and electronic composers (including myself) tend to focus on 'expressiveness' through wailing solos ala Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, to detailed and perfect production pieces ala Krafterk to Depeche Mode. Not to say that male expressiveness via performance or production can't generate emotions or thought. But most of the female pioneers were purely content to have the sound and/or performance by the tape loops, synthesizers to computers be the guiding principle. To have enough knowledge in setting things up and managing them, but let the machines be the driving factor to convey their compositions. Very inspirational! And the fact that these women persevered as best they could with lack of support, sexism, skepticism. Along with personal issues such as lesbianism, gender change, relationships, etc. The movie doesn't touch too much on those issues by and large, but they are mentioned.

I'd love to see more explained, demonstrated, and personal struggles endured. But in amassing so many in the confines of a movies run time, it's very impressive all that got covered. And I'm sure there's still a lot that were missed out on as well.

This documentary covers some of my favorite movies, and I loved the stories of some of these men and women, but good Lord I had remove 3 stars for the constant D-tier tinnitus inducing audio. Its non-stop.

This is coming from someone who is both a huge science fi fan and a musician.

This film history was LONG overdue and tells the important story of the influential creators in electronic music.

It is true that Wendy Carlos has been one of the most recognized American forces in this genre. When Carlos' break-through popular LP "Switched-On Bach" was released in 1968, it was done so as "Walter Carlos". (Carlos would have gender reassignment surgery in 1972, changing her name to Wendy.) Why bring this up?

The film includes a clip from a French documentary that shows a crowd in the Sam Goody store in NYC in 1968 buying "Switched-On Bach", mentioning it's popularity exceeding even the Beatles. But the English subtitles in that French film refer to Carlos as her. That's correct today, but in 1968 Carlos's work was released under her birth name. How could the French documentary know what was to happen 4 years later? Obviously they didn't - the subtitles had to have been changed long after that documentary was shot. This film should have discretely noted the difference instead of rewriting history, no matter how well-intentioned it may have been. That would take absolutely nothing away from Carlos' talent, creativity and influence.