Thank you so much to Kirsty MacLeod for inviting me to be a guest on the W.E.E. podcast, for a great discussion about interdisciplinary science-art research and creation with Beth Reinke and Amy Cheu. You can hear this episode (as well as lots of other interesting discussions) here.
I’m pleased to share my most recent article for New Music Box, on why “but surely you don’t want your music performed just because you’re a woman, surely you want it performed because it’s good” is not the devastating critique that those who resist gender balanced programming think it is!
I’ve long had a hunch that even small differentials in the likelihood of having pieces performed between women and men composers can have a huge cumulative effect over the long-term. My partner Neil Banas is a computer modeller, and he made me an interactive model for this article (published on New Music Box), which indeed bears out my theory. Drag the blue sliders to see how gender (or other) inequality may affect composers over the course of their careers.
