Eric <ehill@best.com> wrote:
Apparently nothing needs more to be done. I was just thinking that since a
lot of the fans for these kinds of music were introduced to it through raves
and club culture in general, professed open and free scenes, that this
freedom would somehow have extended itself into a more integrated musical
output. Of course there are isolated incidents of female performers and
producers in techno, it's the law of averages or the force of chaos (your
choice).
There are a lot of artists that work without large support networks. I think
that by the time they are putting out albums that there are enough people
involved that a thank you list includes more than their personal circle of
friends. It is not impossible to set up your own path of production. You
seem rather concerned with the ways that women are treated in a male
dominated recording and performance industry. Congratulations on recognizing
that sexism still exists! But perhaps in the absence of an open mnded
industry women would do better to ignore the male dominated paths - maybe
this is one of the allowances that could be made for "Known Problems". I'm
sure they're sick of it too, you know? But, and this could be due to male
pattern blindness, I don't see interest expressed on these noncompetitive
DISCUSSION boards, and I know about the occasional de-lurk.
# I just wanted to express my interest in your statement that this
#discussion board is noncompetitive. And yes, this is the occasional
#delurk.
#onnow: the whir and hum of lots of UNIX machines
*molly*