Tara Rodgers
Biographic Data
| ID | 786777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara Rodgers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodgers |
| SIGNATURE | RODGERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tinkering with Cultural Memory
In 2015, analog synthesizers are resurgent in popular appeal. Robert Moog is often celebrated as the central and originary figure who launched a so-called revolution in sound by making synthesizers widely available in the late 1960s and early '70s. This essay examines the figure of the humble tinkerer, as exemplified by Moog, along with other historically specific and archetypal forms of masculinity that are embodied by the male subjects at the c…
Cultivating Activist Lives in Sound
The author discusses political dimensions of electronic music and sound cultures in the historical present, critiques various ways that neoliberalism inflects and constrains creative practice, and outlines cultural and political aspirations that sonic activists might pursue
How Art and Research Inform One Another, or Choose Your Own Adventure
Conventional artist statements and scholarly method statements can be inadequate for representing the intersections and overlaps of art practice and research. This essay employs autobiography to narrate relationships between the author’s art practice and scholarly research, and draws on feminist methods and histories of technology to assess the usefulness of this exercise. In contrast to modes of writing in the arts and humanities that emphasize …
Stripping for the State
This article examines whole body imaging technologies in contemporary airport security contexts. Situating these technologies more broadly within histories of aviation and theories of mobility, we examine how discourses of technological efficiency and freedom of movement work to obscure the ever-expanding surveillance practices of the state. While whole body imaging technologies are marketed as objective and neutral, we investigate how they draw …
The Poetics of Signal Processing
Signal processing is one of the most important and understudied dimensions of contemporary sound cultures and of electronic media more broadly. In the sonic register, it inflects everything from music production, wired or wireless transmission, and radio broadcast to everyday conversation and listening. Because it is embedded in all stages of contemporary sound production, reproduction, and reception, it has remained an elusive subject for critiq…
What, for me, constitutes life in a sound
The common metaphor of electronic sounds as lively and differentiated individuals emerged alongside developments in scientific modernism and industrial capitalism. Through widespread applications of graphical methods by scientists in the nineteenth century, sounds and living bodies became similarly legible through waveform representations: characterized by extensions into space, fluctuations over time, part-whole relations, and associated aesthet…
Tracklist and Credits
December 01 2010 Tracklist and Credits Tara Rodgers Tara Rodgers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Tara Rodgers Online ISSN: 1531-4812 Print ISSN: 0961-1215 © 2010 ISAST2010 Leonardo Music Journal (2010) 20: 99. https://doi.org/10.1162/LMJ_a_00026 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio…
LM20 CD Companion Introduction
December 01 2010 LM20 CD Companion Introduction: Sounds Like Now: Improvisation + Technology Tara Rodgers Tara Rodgers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Tara Rodgers Online Issn: 1531-4812 Print Issn: 0961-1215 © 2010 ISAST2010 Leonardo Music Journal (2010) 20: 100–101. https://doi.org/10.1162/LMJ_a_00027 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views A…
Introduction
December 01 2006 Introduction: Sound and the Social Organization of Space Tara Rodgers Tara Rodgers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Tara Rodgers Online Issn: 1531-4812 Print Issn: 0961-1215 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Leonardo Music Journal (2006) 16: 49–50. https://doi.org/10.1162/lmj.2006.16.49 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Stripping for the State
This article examines whole body imaging technologies in contemporary airport security contexts. Situating these technologies more broadly within histories of aviation and theories of mobility, we examine how discourses of technological efficiency and freedom of movement work to obscure the ever-expanding surveillance practices of the state. While whole body imaging technologies are marketed as objective and neutral, we investigate how they draw …
What, for me, constitutes life in a sound
The common metaphor of electronic sounds as lively and differentiated individuals emerged alongside developments in scientific modernism and industrial capitalism. Through widespread applications of graphical methods by scientists in the nineteenth century, sounds and living bodies became similarly legible through waveform representations: characterized by extensions into space, fluctuations over time, part-whole relations, and associated aesthet…
The Poetics of Signal Processing
Signal processing is one of the most important and understudied dimensions of contemporary sound cultures and of electronic media more broadly. In the sonic register, it inflects everything from music production, wired or wireless transmission, and radio broadcast to everyday conversation and listening. Because it is embedded in all stages of contemporary sound production, reproduction, and reception, it has remained an elusive subject for critiq…
Introduction
December 01 2006 Introduction: Sound and the Social Organization of Space Tara Rodgers Tara Rodgers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Tara Rodgers Online Issn: 1531-4812 Print Issn: 0961-1215 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Leonardo Music Journal (2006) 16: 49–50. https://doi.org/10.1162/lmj.2006.16.49 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Tracklist and Credits
December 01 2010 Tracklist and Credits Tara Rodgers Tara Rodgers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Tara Rodgers Online ISSN: 1531-4812 Print ISSN: 0961-1215 © 2010 ISAST2010 Leonardo Music Journal (2010) 20: 99. https://doi.org/10.1162/LMJ_a_00026 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio…
LM20 CD Companion Introduction
December 01 2010 LM20 CD Companion Introduction: Sounds Like Now: Improvisation + Technology Tara Rodgers Tara Rodgers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Tara Rodgers Online Issn: 1531-4812 Print Issn: 0961-1215 © 2010 ISAST2010 Leonardo Music Journal (2010) 20: 100–101. https://doi.org/10.1162/LMJ_a_00027 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views A…
Stripping for the State
This article examines whole body imaging technologies in contemporary airport security contexts. Situating these technologies more broadly within histories of aviation and theories of mobility, we examine how discourses of technological efficiency and freedom of movement work to obscure the ever-expanding surveillance practices of the state. While whole body imaging technologies are marketed as objective and neutral, we investigate how they draw …
The Poetics of Signal Processing
Signal processing is one of the most important and understudied dimensions of contemporary sound cultures and of electronic media more broadly. In the sonic register, it inflects everything from music production, wired or wireless transmission, and radio broadcast to everyday conversation and listening. Because it is embedded in all stages of contemporary sound production, reproduction, and reception, it has remained an elusive subject for critiq…
What, for me, constitutes life in a sound
The common metaphor of electronic sounds as lively and differentiated individuals emerged alongside developments in scientific modernism and industrial capitalism. Through widespread applications of graphical methods by scientists in the nineteenth century, sounds and living bodies became similarly legible through waveform representations: characterized by extensions into space, fluctuations over time, part-whole relations, and associated aesthet…
How Art and Research Inform One Another, or Choose Your Own Adventure
Conventional artist statements and scholarly method statements can be inadequate for representing the intersections and overlaps of art practice and research. This essay employs autobiography to narrate relationships between the author’s art practice and scholarly research, and draws on feminist methods and histories of technology to assess the usefulness of this exercise. In contrast to modes of writing in the arts and humanities that emphasize …
Tinkering with Cultural Memory
In 2015, analog synthesizers are resurgent in popular appeal. Robert Moog is often celebrated as the central and originary figure who launched a so-called revolution in sound by making synthesizers widely available in the late 1960s and early '70s. This essay examines the figure of the humble tinkerer, as exemplified by Moog, along with other historically specific and archetypal forms of masculinity that are embodied by the male subjects at the c…
Cultivating Activist Lives in Sound
The author discusses political dimensions of electronic music and sound cultures in the historical present, critiques various ways that neoliberalism inflects and constrains creative practice, and outlines cultural and political aspirations that sonic activists might pursue
Computer Science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Media, Communication, and Education (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Citation (3 works) · Icon (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Political science (3 works)