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is a composer and writer, originally from upstate New York and now based in Montreal.
She performed jazz piano in NYC beginning in the mid-1990s, and has produced electronic music and led recording workshops for about 10 years. There are 3 Analog Tara albums (available at CDBaby.com and the iTunes music store), plus tracks on the Le Tigre Remix 12", Source Records, and other compilations.
Tara earned an MFA in Electronic Music & Recording Media at Mills College in 2006. She uses the programming language SuperCollider to sonify large-scale patterns of living. Recent sound and video installations have been based on butterfly migrations, human population shifts, and urban landscapes.
Tara was a Visiting Professor of Sound at the Museum School in Boston in 2004-05, and a Canada-U.S. Fulbright scholar in 2006-07. She is a PhD student in Communication Studies at McGill University.
was a webzine and will soon be a book.
The webzine, Pinknoises.com, was founded by Analog Tara in 2000 and designed by Karen Choy. It was created to counteract the lack of coverage of women in electronic music magazines and history books, and to make technical information on music production more widely accessible to women and girls. The site is no longer updated, but much of the content remains archived online.
The book, Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound, is an anthology of 24 interviews, most of which were conducted after the website's tenure. It includes DJs, electronic music producers, and sound installation artists of various generations and cultural backgrounds. The artists talk about their background in music and technology, their creative methods, and gendered aspects of electronic music and sound. Pink Noises also includes a discography, a technical glossary, and an introduction that connects feminist theories to electronic music. The book is under contract with Duke University Press.
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