GendyTrouble:Cyber*Feminist Computer Music

This presentation introduces the theoretical underpinnings of the work GenDyTrouble: Cyber*Feminist Computer Music, part of a larger ongoing project entitled GenDyTrouble (2015–). The project began as a thought experiment which enacted a symbolic collision between composer Iannis Xenakis’ technique of sound generation, “Génération Dynamique Stochastique” (often shortened to GenDyn or sometimes GenDy) and Judith Butler’s foundational work of queer theory, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). As such, the project asks what fusing the mathematical-generative power of computation with an emancipatory gender-politics could achieve. The project perches critically on the shoulders of previous cyberfeminists to both create and listen to what a sonic cyberfeminism could sound like. 

Annie Goh is an artist and researcher. Her work, in its numerous forms from sound installation, composition and computer music to writing, performance and social practice, takes a critical approach to contemporary debates in the fields of digital technologies, media arts, generative and computational processes and communication studies, with a particular focus on sound, intersectional feminism, decolonial theory and the politics of knowledge production. She is co-founder of the Sonic Cyberfeminisms project since 2015 with Marie Thompson. She lectures in Sound Arts at LCC, University of Arts London and where she is also a member of Creative Research In Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP).