This week Declassify delves into a newer and fascinating part of classical music practices, or it is really classical music? Our guest for this week’s episode is acousmatic composer and researcher Alexis Weaver. Her principal interest lies in composing fixed-media acousmatic music, she has also composed soundtracks for animation, short videos, radio, theatre, and dance. In 2018, Alexis was awarded the National Council of Women’s Australia Day Prize for her research undertaken during her Honours year on the visibility and practice of female electroacoustic composers and she has just completed a Master of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium, where she teaches composition and music technology subjects. This week we unpack the immersive realm of electronic music, the act of sound-making as music, accessibility to learning about music and music technology through to resources and programs for diverse listening, representation and engagement. 

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Selected Resources (A full list is available in the transcript)

Alexis Weaver

https://www.alexismarieweaver.com/ 

https://alexismarieweaver.bandcamp.com/ 

Alexis Weaver: Increasing the Volume: The Creative Diversity and Future Visions of Female Electroacoustic Composers in Australia

https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SCM/article/view/12675 

Tara Rodgers. Pink Noises. Can be accessed on-line via this link - 

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/449269/pdf 

http://www.femalepressure.net/fempress.html Female Pressure is an excellent database and data collection group who raise awareness of electronic artists around the world. The 2020 survey can be accessed here: https://femalepressure.wordpress.com