"Pop and rock music has long been an important forum for experimentation with gendered performance, audience identification, and different models of authorship and collaboration. What happens, we ask, when the complex affective and social dynamics of popular music cultures are put into a dialogue with more rarified notions of audio cultures or sound art? Taking the issue of sexual difference and sexuality as its central concern, this symposium brings together an international group of artists, writers, educators and curators to address the gendered complexes of “music cultures,” “audio practices,” and where these two realms intersect in contemporary art. Presentation topics include the feminist sound archive Her Noise, women in early punk, the voice, and the soundscape." -Reprinted from http://centerforthehumanities.org

Participating speakers include Regine Basha, Mark Beasley, Anya Bernstein, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Maria Chavez, Annea Lockwood, Barbara London, Ellie Hisama, Peter Hitchcock, Allison Kaufman, Kristin Norderval, JD Samson, Xaviera Simmons, Valerie Tevere, and Siona Wilson.

Sexing Sound was organized by: Valerie Tevere (Mellon Humanities Fellow, the Center for Humanities; Media Culture, the College of Staten Island/CUNY) and Siona Wilson (Program in Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Performing and Creative Arts, the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

Special thanks to Valerie Tevere, Siona Wilson, Katherine Carl, Jennifer Wilkinson, and Sheala Finch for making this broadcast possible.