Sisters with Transistors (2021)
Electronic music's unsung heroines
Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come.
- Date of release
- 2021-09-01
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Documentary, History, Music
- Director
- Lisa Rovner
Casting
- Laurie Anderson — Narrator (voice)
- Delia Derbyshire — Self (archive footage)
- Suzanne Ciani — Self
- Bebe Barron — Self (archive footage)
- Laurie Spiegel — Self
- Éliane Radigue — Self
- Wendy Carlos — Self
- Pauline Oliveros — Self (archive footage)
- Clara Rockmore — Self
- Daphne Oram — Self (archive footage)
- Maryanne Amacher — Self
- Louis Barron — Self (archive footage)
Interesting facts
Sisters with Transistors is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Lisa Rovner in her directorial debut. It premiered at the 2020 South by Southwest Film Festival and was later screened at AFI Fest. The rights to the documentary were acquired by Metrograph Pictures.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Supersonic 2016 · ★ 7.4
- Muscle Shoals 2013 · ★ 7.2
- Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger 2026 · ★ 6.9
- Daft Punk Unchained 2015 · ★ 7.2
- Whitney 2018 · ★ 7.3
- The Last Repair Shop 2024 · ★ 7.5
- Selena y Los Dinos: A Family's Legacy 2025 · ★ 8.9
- Miss Americana 2020 · ★ 7.8
- Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound 2019 · ★ 6.9
- Katy Perry: Part of Me 2012 · ★ 7.1
- The Greatest Night in Pop 2024 · ★ 7.9
- 20 Feet from Stardom 2013 · ★ 7.2