Jekyll2024-01-10T12:25:17+00:00http://wonomute.no/feed.xmlWoNoMuteThis is the website and blog of the organization Women Nordic Music Technology (WoNoMute) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in partnership with University of Oslo (UiO).International Women’s Day 20222022-03-08T07:15:00+00:002022-03-08T07:15:00+00:00http://wonomute.no/blog/IWD-2022<figure>
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<p>For this year’s International Women’s Day, we have compiled some local events in Oslo for you that will take place today.</p>
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<p>East European poems and Ukrainian and Russian folk music on Kafé Hærverk, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/s/%C3%B8st-europeisk-fors%C3%B8string/695788571599927/">click here</a></p>
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<p>Concerts with Iron Bra, TwoMinutesHate and Ellis og Mina’s Dynamiske DJ-Duo on Vaterland, <a href="https://facebook.com/events/s/kvinnedagen-vaterland/1257271181470806/">click here</a></p>
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<p>Event on Melahuset with music,<a href="https://www.mela.no/melahuset/events/8mars/">click here</a></p>
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<p>Dance event on Riksscenen, <a href="https://www.riksscenen.no/dansekompaniet-mamelukk-livmoedre.6425165-515567.html?fbclid=IwAR1DBVyJsX6MoSYWtTmP1K7t8reEhY7bMtXuKhcdXfEeTOFSiymutX804jI">click here</a></p>
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<p>Documentary about nuns on Vega scene, <a href="https://vegascene.no/incoming/article1482304.ece">click here</a></p>
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<p>Debate about climate change politics in a gender perspective at Litteraturhuset, <a href="stk.uio.no/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/seminarer/2022/kvinnedagen-2022-hvordan-kan-klimapolitikk-vere-re.html">click here</a></p>
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<p>Livecodera: There is also a global online gathering of women livecoders, both musicians and visualists that can be experienced on YouTube at https://youtu.be/_xDoiBbh9RQ or on Mozilla Hubs at https://hubs.mozilla.com/focK68L</p>
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<p><strong>Have a great day everyone!</strong></p>WoNoMuteFor this year's International Women's Day, we have compiled some local events in Oslo for you that will take place today.Meeting up for the Féminisme - Musique - Technologie Conference 2021 in Paris2021-10-13T19:15:00+00:002021-10-13T19:15:00+00:00http://wonomute.no/blog/feminisme-musique-technologie<p><em>In this blog post I will report my experience as a WoNoMute delegate who had the opportunity to travel to Paris and represent the organisation at the event ‘Féminisme - Musique - Technologie’ which was part of the ManiFeste-2021 Festival in Paris.</em></p>
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<p>In June 19 2021, the event ‘Féminisme - Musique - Technologie’ took place in Paris. As part of the <a href="https://manifeste.ircam.fr/media/uploads/documents/agenda_manifeste-2021.pdf">ManiFeste-2021</a> Festival it was hosted by the <a href="https://www.ircam.fr/">Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)</a> in collaboration with Nova_XXX/ Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles. IRCAM is a public research centre dedicated to musical creation and scientific research in Paris which is entangled with the <a href="https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/">Centre Pompidou</a> and Sorbonne Université. Commited to bring questions of intersectionality and inclusion in music, science and technology on the radar of the local research environments, <a href="https://frederic-bevilacqua.net/">Dr. Frédéric Bevilacqua</a>, head researcher from the <a href="http://ismm.ircam.fr/about/">Sound Music Movement Interaction (ISMM) team</a> at IRCAM and <a href="http://saralaoui.com/">Dr. Sarah Fdili Alaoui</a>, associate professor at Université Paris-Saclay invited us to join this mini-conference.</p>
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<p>You can watch the full video of the event on the link below. The video starts with a thematic introduction by Sarah Fdili Alaoui (05:20) who introduces the presenters and concludes with and open discussion (1:15:00). In the second part the session continues in French.</p>
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<h3 id="the-new-hybrid">The new hybrid</h3>
<p>Due to current Covid19 restrictions slightly being lifted, and after having postponed the event for a year, I was the only international presenter who was able to participate on-site at the live event due to living in Berlin. For this session all other invited speakers who were based in the UK or Sweden (Prof. Caroline Basset, Dr. Cécile Chevalier, and Dr. Sharon Webb from IFTe, Dr. Emma Frid from KTH Royal Institute of Technology/IRCAM, and Dr. Anna Xambó from WoNoMute) could only have travelled under circumstancial conditions at that time. The public anyhow could attend the event on-site at Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles or via live stream and take part in the discussion either way. It was noticeable that people were used to stay at home, there were about ten people in the audience, yet the video has 600 views up to present.</p>
<h3 id="the-networks-ifte-and-fact">The networks IFTe and FACT</h3>
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<p>With the title “Building Community; Materialising Voices; Coding & Decoding” Prof. Caroline Basset, lecturer at the University of Cambridge opened with the first presentation together with Dr. Cécile Chevalier, senior lecturer in Digital Practice and Dr. Sharon Webb, co-director of the Sussex Humanities Lab, both from the University of Sussex. They connected their focal perspectives in research, artistic practise and beyond to the agenda of the initiatives <a href="http://ifte.network">The Intersections, Feminism, Technology & Digital Humanities network (IFTe)</a> and <a href="http://fact.network/">Feminist Approaches to Technology Network (FACT)</a>. Both networks address gender imbalance in computational practices. They introduced how transdisciplinary activities such as writing, creative coding and community building can become collaborative methods for feminist interventions. Caroline Basset for example stressed that through feminism it was possible to question if not counter the assumptions about gendered practises and spaces throughout history.</p>
<h3 id="sonification-of-women-authorship">Sonification of Women Authorship</h3>
<p>Dr. Emma Frid is a post-doctoral researcher at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and at IRCAM from the <a href="http://cosmos.ircam.fr/">Computational Shaping and Modeling of Musical Structures (COSMOS)</a> project. In her presentation Frid demonstrated a general lack of women attendees in sound and music computing conferences. Frid collected the actual numbers of women authorship in the proceedings of The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), The Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) and New Interfaces for Musical Expresion (NIME) over the course of several years tracked by their first names. In order to make the imbalance between male and female authorships more perceptible Frid used visual plots but also played several sonifications based on the datasets. Assigning these datasets different sounds one could perceive it quite vividly. This research is based on Frid’s paper <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320765100_Sonification_of_Women_in_Sound_and_Music_Computing_-_The_Sound_of_Female_Authorship_in_ICMC_SMC_and_NIME_Proceedings"><em>Sonification of Women in Sound and Music Computing - The Sound of Female Authorship in ICMC, SMC and NIME Proceedings</em></a>.</p>
<h3 id="the-wonomute-manifesto">The WoNoMute Manifesto</h3>
<p>Finally myself and Anna presented the WoNoMute network in a hybrid format, me onsite and Anna from Sheffield. We enfolded the WoNoMute-Manifesto together with a time line of all the activities, from the beginning in 2018 to the present. The main points of the manifesto are:</p>
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<li>to establish an international, local and national network of role models</li>
<li>to encourage women, girls and non-binary to participate and develop skills in music technology related fields</li>
<li>to revisit ontologies and epistemologies of the field so that everyone is welcome</li>
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<p>The presentation can be found <a href="https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lBXi0m8=/?invite_link_id=120302455036">here</a>.</p>
<h3 id="roundtable">Roundtable</h3>
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<p>After the three presentations, we had a follow-up discussion facilitated by Sarah Fdili Alaoui. Several interesting topics which the presenters issued were: (1) The gendering of technology and realms of activity. (2) Whether the intersection of humanities and technology is a way to integrate more underrepresented perspectives instead of “infiltrating” STEM (mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology) subjects through girls-only programmes and workshops (3) How does this imbalance manifest itself in music technology in its educational spaces or in the inhabiting objects? Further on, it was discussed that women in male-dominated spaces tend to thematize the gender imbalance while their work fades into the background.</p>
<h3 id="acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</h3>
<p>Thanks especially to Frédéric Bevilacqua and Sarah Fdili Alaoui for their invitation and Sylvie Benoit for the opportunity to be physically present. It was also very interesting to learn about the activities of the ISMM team and to get to know some researchers at IRCAM in person while being able to discuss things on one table. Thanks also to Anna for the conversations and regular meetings to prepare our hybrid visit. I hope the dialogues will continue on each front.</p>Karolina JawadOn the 19th of June 2021 we were invited to introduce WoNoMute at the event 'Féminisme - Musique - Technologie' which was part of the ManiFeste-2021 Festival in Paris. Hosted by IRCAM and Nova_XX/ Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles the program introduced feminist approaches from researchers and artists in the context of music, technology and digital art that are carried out in Europe. In a mix of onsite and online presentations myself and Anna Xambó had the opportunity to reflect about the WoNoMute agenda and impact.Pamela Z Award for Innovation - NIME 20212021-10-13T18:15:00+00:002021-10-13T18:15:00+00:00http://wonomute.no/blog/pamela-z-award-2021<p>The Pamela Z Award winner is the author team of the paper Gambiarra and Techno-Vernacular Creativity in NIME Research from João Tragtenberg, GG Albuquerque and Filipe Calegario. Our honorary mention goes to Abby Aresty’s Changing GEAR:
The Girls Electronic Arts Retreat’s Teaching Interfaces for Musical Expression co-authored with Rachel Gibson.</p>
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<p>The International Conference on <a href="https://www.nime.org/">New Interfaces for Musical Expression</a> (NIME) brings researchers and musicians together from around the world to exchange ideas on the design of new musical interfaces. With the Pamela Z Award for Innovation, contributions are rewarded and recognised that improve the discussion about diversity in NIME - either through their research, connecting people or through actions such as organisation and awareness. An accolade that started in 2018 by Astrid Bin, Anna Weisling and Sarah Schoemann, here is more contextual information about the award and the follow-up editions <a href="https://wonomute.no/blog/pamela-z-award-for-innovation-nime-2019/">2019</a> and <a href="https://wonomute.no/blog/pamela-z-award-for-innovation-nime-2020/">2020</a>.
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<p>In the following, we will introduce the contributions and the conditions
of this year’s conference, <a href="http://nime2021.org">NIME 2021</a>, which was held in Shanghai, China, both on-site and online.
The Pamela Z Award winner is the author team of the paper <a href="http://nime2021.org/program/#/paper/185">Gambiarra and Techno-Vernacular Creativity in NIME Research</a>, namely João Tragtenberg, GG Albuquerque and Filipe Calegario. A paper, written to bring ideas from underrepresented countries to the NIME community. Our honorary mention goes to <a href="http://nime2021.org/program/#/paper/69">Changing GEAR: The Girls Electronic Arts Retreat’s Teaching Interfaces for Musical Expression</a> co-authored by Abby Aresty and Rachel Gibson. For the difficult and important work of holding an electronics workshop for girls and for her composing practice addressing ecological themes.The Pamela Z Award 2021 was announced by Xiao Xiao and Astrid Bin on June 18th.</p>
<h3 id="the-shortlisting-papers-process">The Shortlisting Papers Process</h3>
<p>In this edition, all nominees were closely aligned with the <a href="http://nime2021.org/index.html">NIME 2021</a>’s theme of learning to play and playing to learn. In this year’s hybrid conference format of NIME, attendees from 24 time zones could attend online from June 14-18 with a program scheduled accordingly.
As part of the hybrid format, an onsite day program in Shanghai included spotlight talks by invited researchers and artists, and performances. These were live-streamed and recorded to facilitate global participation. According to this year’s conference chairs <a href="https://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/directory/margaret-minsky">Margarete Minsky</a> and <a href="https://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/directory/gus-xia">Gus Xia</a>, overall conference registrations were 38 percent from European zones, 40 percent from the Americas, 17 percent from Asia and a further five percent from other areas around the world. This brings us closer to the topic of this year’s award, which stands in the theme to bring cross-cultural points of view from under-represented parts of the world into NIME. Forming a jury has been a challenging undertaking as members were also spread across different time zones and continents realising in asynchronical discussions over different online platforms. There were a number of items that brought the jury to re-elaborate and discuss the nuances of the award in regards to the term diversity. We also wanted to address the misconception that the Pamela Z Award is only for women.</p>
<h3 id="the-award-paper">The Award Paper</h3>
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<p>Through the paper <a href="http://nime2021.org/program/#/paper/185">Gambiarra and Techno-Vernacular Creativity in NIME Research</a>, from <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joao-Tragtenberg">João Tragtenberg</a>, <a href="https://euvoupassar.academia.edu/GGAlbuquerque">GG Albuquerque</a> and <a href="https://filipecalegario.net/">Filipe Calegario</a>, many of the jury members, from or working in Europe and North America truly learned something new as it brings awareness to the too often overlooked importance of innovative processes in environments that are significantly under-resourced compared with those of most NIME contributors. This paper provides valuable context on post- and decolonial perspectives and points - as with the “Techno-Vernacular Creativity” concept - to inventive processes and their contexts while conveying thoroughly local know-how and experience. The Techno-Vernacular Creativity alludes to a vast set of adaptions of mainstream technologies that underrepresented ethnic groups reclaim, improvise and remix with.</p>
<h3 id="the-honorary-mention">The Honorary Mention</h3>
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<p><a href="http://nime2021.org/program/#/paper/69">Changing GEAR: The Girls Electronic Arts Retreat’s Teaching Interfaces for Musical Expression</a> by <a href="https://abbyaresty.com/">Abby Aresty</a> and <a href="https://music.virginia.edu/grads/profile/7436">Rachel Gibson</a> presents the experience of teaching interfaces for musical expression for girls aged 8-11 years old during two subsequent years, both on-site and online, the latter due to the pandemic situation. The paper discusses how the use of tangible materials and e-textiles can be more suitable for girls when learning science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It is argued that the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields is due to the lack of exposure to the field when they are girls. The topic of the paper promotes the creation of NIMEs at this critical young age along with fulfilling STEM learning objectives.</p>
<h3 id="the-prizes">The Prizes</h3>
<p>The gift for the main award goes to all authors of the paper which is a <a href="https://www.ableton.com/en/live/">Ableton Live Suite</a>, a <a href="https://bela.io/products">Bela Mini Starter Kit</a> and a <a href="https://popuband.com/">PopuMusic Populele</a>. The honorary mention receives <a href="https://bela.io/products/trill/">Bela Trill Sensors</a> and a PopuMusic Populele.</p>
<h3 id="references">References</h3>
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<p>João Tragtenberg, GG Albuquerque, Filipe Calegario. 2021. Gambiarra and Techno-Vernacular Creativity in NIME Research. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, New York University, Shanghai</p>
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<p>Abby Aresty, Rachel Gibson. 2021. Changing GEAR: The Girls Electronic Arts Retreat’s Teaching Interfaces forMusical Expression, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, New York University, Shanghai</p>
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</ul>Karolina Jawad, Astrid Bin, Wei Chen, Yinmiao Li, Zijin Li, Margaret Minsky, Sally Jane Norman, Laurel Smith Pardue, Franziska Schroeder, Anna Xambó Sedó, Anna Weisling and Xiao XiaoThe Pamela Z Award winner is the author team of the paper Gambiarra and Techno-Vernacular Creativity in NIME Research from João Tragtenberg, GG Albuquerque and Filipe Calegario. Our honorary mention goes to Abby Aresty’s Changing GEAR: The Girls Electronic Arts Retreat's Teaching Interfaces for Musical Expression co-authored with Rachel Gibson.Take a break. Add some music to your vitamins.2021-04-12T12:00:00+00:002021-04-12T12:00:00+00:00http://wonomute.no/blog/MCT-concertpromo-2021<p><strong>26 April 2021</strong> // <strong>11:00-12:00 (GMT +2 )</strong> // <strong>On Youtube</strong> // <strong><a href="http://mct-master.github.io/live">Join here</a></strong></p>
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<h3 id="vitamin-music">Vitamin Music.</h3>
<p>Are you tired of working from home and the constant Zoom-meetings? Why not to take a musical break with us on 26th April at 11.00 (GMT +2, Norwegian Time)? It is a telematic concert between two locations in Norway.</p>
<p>Listening to music can have a lot of benefit to our bodies. It’s not a magic cure, and it doesn’t give your immune system an immediate boost. However, many researchers argue that your favourite tunes could actually be more effective than popping gummy vitamins in the long run, precisely because music induces relaxation! In this concert, we can’t guarantee that we are playing your favourite songs, but we want to bring you to the space. :)</p>
<h3 id="mct">MCT:</h3>
<p>We are a team of 11 people from diverse background. We play music together in the space, it is because we think it is one of the future possibilities. We are located in Oslo and Trondheim. So, we are 400km apart from each other.</p>Joni MokMCT invites you to take a musical break.WoNoMute Workshops 20212021-03-19T12:00:00+00:002021-03-19T12:00:00+00:00http://wonomute.no/blog/WoNoMute-Workshops-2021<figure>
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<p>We are happy to announce that WoNoMute is back with our <a href="http://wonomute.no/workshops/forthcoming/">workshop series</a> for people who identify as women or non-binary!</p>
<p>From our experience over the past two years, we have learned that there is a need for a safe space for women and girls to learn about music and technology. It’s not a secret that the field of music and technology (or technology in general) still is very dominated by men. I think many of those of us who identify as female experience a kind of lonesomeness as we often experience to be the only female in a group when we are about to learn about technology related stuff.</p>
<p>It is easy to get the feeling that one has to be super experienced before daring to ask any questions, or to admit that you are struggling with something in a learning situation. It is easy to feel that you “represent all females” if you are the only female among men in a group. This is not a good base for learning.</p>
<p>This is one of the reasons why we believe that we still need an area for learning for women, where we don’t have to think about gender but just can do the things we love: learn about music and tech!</p>
<p>This year, all of our workshops are aimed at beginners, and there is a limited number of available spots. Most of the workshops will be online because of Covid, but there will also be a physical outdoors workshop with Kristin Norderval.</p>
<p>We hope that people who perhaps have not discovered their interest in music technology yet will grab this chance to widen their horizons and learn something new! This year there will be a wide variety in subjects, and we will have a couple of workshops where the use of voice is central. As this has been requested as a topic from our attendees at earlier workshops.</p>
<p>For those of you who <em>not</em> consider themself as beginners in music tech: You are of course also welcome! Our workshops are also available for people who identify as non-binary or transgender.</p>
<h2 id="the-program">The program:</h2>
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<p>DIGITAL WORKSHOP: <a href="http://wonomute.no/workshops/stephanie-merchak-workshop">Making music using everyday sounds and free tools</a> by <a href="/directory-of-wonomute/stephanie-merchak/">Stephanie Merchak</a> (06.04.21)</p>
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<p>DIGITAL WORKSHOP: <a href="http://wonomute.no/workshops/ane-bjerkan-workshop">Recording and producing your own vocals</a> by <a href="/directory-of-wonomute/ane-bjerkan/">Ane Bjerkan</a> (13.04.21)</p>
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<p>DIGITAL WORKSHOP: <a href="http://wonomute.no/workshops/alena-clim-workshop">Motion tracking and analysis: Video Analysis</a> by <a href="/directory-of-wonomute/alena-clim/">Alena Clim</a>(20.04.21)</p>
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<p>PHYSICAL, OUTDOORS WORKSHOP: <a href="http://wonomute.no/workshops/kristin-norderval-workshop">Introduction to Soundwalks and Site Specific Field Recording</a> by <a href="/directory-of-wonomute/kristin-norderval/">Kristin Norderval</a> (04.5.21)</p>
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<p>DIGITAL WORKSHOP: <a href="http://wonomute.no/workshops/mari-lesteberg-workshop">Web Audio API and Tone.js</a> by <a href="/directory-of-wonomute/mari-lesteberg/">Mari Lesteberg</a> (11.5.21)</p>
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<p>DIGITAL WORKSHOP: <a href="http://wonomute.no/workshops/joni-mok-workshop">UX Design meets music technology</a> by <a href="/directory-of-wonomute/joni-mok/">Joni Mok</a> (25.5.21)</p>
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</ul>Mari LestebergWe are happy to announce that WoNoMute is back with our workshop series for people who identify as women and non-binary! From our experience over the past two years, we have learned that there is a need for a safe space for women and girls to learn about music and technology. It’s not a secret that the field of music and technology (or technology in general) still is very dominated by men.DIY video series for International Women’s Day 20212021-03-08T03:00:00+00:002021-03-08T03:00:00+00:00http://wonomute.no/post/2021/03/08/IWD2021-DIY-Video-Series<p>For this years International Women’s Day, we have made an open call across our network and beyond and also reached out to individuals to find out what is going on at home
in times of restrictions. We asked women and female identified persons to share and document their current work via short, self made DIY video clips. The participants
were free to choose the format in which they present their work or tell about their projects. We are glad to have received eight submissions today and hope they’ll inspire you.</p>
<h4 id="the-playlist">The Playlist:</h4>
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<h4 id="in-order-of-appearance">In order of appearance:</h4>
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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/OPeOOSOwby0">Sam Topley</a></strong>, Leicester UK<br />
samantha-topley.co.uk</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/7kFzhMh_28U">Mari Lesteberg</a></strong>, Oslo NO<br />
suburbansavages.bandcamp.com<br />
youtube.com/c/MariLesteberg</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/jOSRUVJ2PQ4">Paule Perrier</a></strong>, Berlin DE<br />
pauleperrier.com<br />
resurgencedunon.bandcamp.com</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/_07yNcyDSbY">Reiko Yamada</a></strong>, Barcelona ES<br />
reikoyamada.com</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/7YfUJacpHxk">Caro C</a></strong>, Manchester UK<br />
carosnatch.com</p>
</li>
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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/hzZsr5RTD3U">Simona Zamboli</a></strong>, Milan IT<br />
simonazamboli.com<br />
simonazamboli.bandcamp.com</p>
</li>
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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/iVS5m_aW_8s">Ane Bjerkan</a></strong>, Oslo NO<br />
anebjerkan.space</p>
</li>
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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/NuZugsBUJv4">Joni Mok</a></strong>, Oslo NO<br />
instagram.com/aurstic</p>
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</ul>WoNoMuteFor this years International Women's Day, we have made an open call across our network and beyond and also reached out to individuals to find out what is going on at home in times of restrictions.Pamela Z Award for Innovation - NIME 20202020-08-04T09:00:00+00:002020-08-04T09:00:00+00:00http://wonomute.no/blog/Pamela-Z-Award-for-Innovation-NIME-2020<p>The winner of the NIME 2020 Pamela Z Award for Innovation is <a href="https://www.dogacavdir.com/">Doga Cavdir</a> for her paper co-authored with <a href="https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/bio/">Ge Wang</a> entitled <strong><em>“Felt Sound: A Shared Musical Experience for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing”</em></strong>. In this paper, a musical interface is presented that connects technology, not only for people who are deaf and hard of hearing, but also for those who are not. This year’s conference on <a href="https://nime2020.bcu.ac.uk/">New Interfaces for Musical Expression</a> (NIME) 2020 issued the theme of Accessibility of Musical Expression. The Honorary Mention this year is for Patricia Cadavid’s paper named <strong><em>“Knotting the memory// Encoding the Khipu_: Reuse of an ancient Andean device as a NIME”</em></strong>.</p>
<p>Due to COVID-19, the conference has been held entirely online and it was its first time in this format. There have been a number of positive responses and most likely it will have a long-lasting effect on the NIME conference culture. The history of NIME and the Pamela Z Award can be read in detail on <a href="/blog/pamela-z-award-for-innovation-nime-2019/">last year’s blog post about the Pamela Z award at NIME 2019</a>. In 2018, <a href="https://www.astridbin.com/">Astrid Bin</a>, <a href="http://www.aweisling.com/">Anna Weisling</a> and <a href="https://www.sarahschoemann.com/">Sarah Schoemann</a> co-created the Pamela Z award, which recognises contributions to diversity in the annual NIME conference. The Pamela Z jury this year consisted of <a href="https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/sallyjane.norman">Sally Jane Norman</a>, <a href="https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/franziska-schroeder">Franziska Schroeder</a>, Anna Weisling, <a href="https://cv2c.noblogs.org/">Karolina Jawad</a> and <a href="http://annaxambo.me/">Anna Xambó</a>. The award was co-presented by Sally Jane Norman, as general co-chair of the conference and chair of the jury, and Astrid Bin, as co-founder of the award and co-founder of <a href="https://bela.io/">Bela</a>, the sponsor of this year’s award.</p>
<p>The shortlisted papers especially showed collaborative practises among people with diverse abilities, which would politically reflect on the community, by questioning access, sustainability and equal gender representation. The focus, however, was to highlight works that would make diverse musical perceptions of the world audible, valued and welcomed. Technical skill, artistic merit, and important reflection on wider societal questions were qualities that were found in many contributions. Therefore, the decision was difficult. All nominees closely aligned with the NIME theme of inclusion and accessibility and their contributions will clearly enrich the NIME community in long terms.</p>
<h3 id="the-innovation-award-paper">The Innovation Award Paper</h3>
<p>The musical interface presented in the paper <strong><em>“Felt Sound: A Shared Musical Experience for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing”</em></strong> uses American Sign Language, so non-musical communicative gestures feature as input alongside musical gestures (see Figure 1). It is a movement-based digital music instrument, specifically designed for inclusive performance. It aims to provide a shared musical experience for both deaf and hard of hearing individuals and those who are not. Those hard of hearing are able to physically experience the vibrations, nuances, contours, as well as their correspondences with the hand gestures while those who are not hard of hearing can also experience the sound. The same physical vibrations are shared by everyone. Enabling shared experiences among people with diverse abilities shows how we can benefit from and contribute to increased accessibility, inclusivity, and collaboration.</p>
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<img src="/assets/blog/cavdir_mapping.jpg" class="" style="max-width: 100%;" alt="Figure 1. Gesture-to-Sound Mapping (Cavdir & Wang, 2020)." />
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<figcaption class="" style="max-width: 100%;">Figure 1. Gesture-to-Sound Mapping (Cavdir & Wang, 2020).</figcaption>
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<h3 id="the-honorary-mention">The Honorary Mention</h3>
<p><strong><em>“Encoding the Khipu_“</em></strong> is a work that imbues a historical, information processing artefact with tangible computing affordances to elicit narratives that symbolically restore and vindicate ancestral Andean memories. The khipu was an information processing and transmission device used by the Incas and previous Andean societies.
According to Patricia Cadavid, Western reading and vision of Khipus would be obsessed with establishing numerical and mathematical logics in them and turning them into codes without a message.</p>
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<img src="/assets/blog/khipu_cadavid.jpg" class="" style="max-width: 100%;" alt="Figure 2. Left: Ancient Andean Khipu. Right: Electronic Khipu (Cadavid Hinojosa, 2020)." />
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<figcaption class="" style="max-width: 100%;">Figure 2. Left: Ancient Andean Khipu. Right: Electronic Khipu (Cadavid Hinojosa, 2020).</figcaption>
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<p>By creating a musical instrument (see Figure 2), Patricia Cadavid is not only sharing her knowledge about old instruments, but is also expanding this numerical logic with musical meaning. Cadavid calls the electronic khipu a tangible live coding interface since the khipu, even transformed into a NIME, would still be a computer and the sound results would vary in real time according to the coding made by the knotwork and the different values produced when the strings are tightened. Its decolonial aesthetic opens NIME up to powerful questions of cultural agency and historical perspectives.</p>
<h3 id="the-prizes-and-final-words">The Prizes and Final Words</h3>
<p>A <a href="https://shop.bela.io/products/bela-starter-kit">Bela Starter Kit</a>, and a copy of Franziska Schroeder’s edited book <a href="http://www.cambridgescholars.com/soundweaving-8">“Soundweaving - Writings on Omprovisation”</a> were rewarded to Doga Cavdir. Patricia Cadavid was offered a set of <a href="https://bela.io/products/trill/">Bela Trill sensors</a>. All in all, we are very happy that the Pamela Z Award for Innovation continued this year and we hope it will do so in the following years. We are thankful to all those who support the initiative and help to make it happen! See you next year at <a href="http://nime2021.org/">NIME 2021</a> in Shanghai, China!</p>
<h3 id="references">References</h3>
<ul>
<li>Cadavid Hinojosa, L.P. (2020) “Knotting the memory//Encoding the Khipu_: Reuse of an ancient Andean device as a NIME”, in <em>Proceedings of NIME</em>, Birmingham, United Kingdom. p. 495–498.</li>
<li>Cavdir, D., Wang, G. (2020) “Felt Sound: A Shared Musical Experience for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing”, in <em>Proceedings of NIME</em>, Birmingham, United Kingdom. p. 176–181.</li>
<li>Schroeder, F., Ó hAodha, M. (eds.) (2014) “Soundweaving - Writings on Improvisation”, <em>Cambridge Scholars Publishing</em>, Cambridge, United Kingdom.</li>
</ul>Karolina Jawad, Sally Jane Norman, Franziska Schroeder, Anna Weisling, Astrid Bin, Anna XambóThis year's conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2020 issued the theme of Accessibility of Musical Expression. Due to COVID-19, the conference has been held entirely online and it was its first time in this format. The winner of the NIME 2020 Pamela Z Award for Innovation is Doga Cavdir for her paper co-authored with Ge Wang entitled Felt Sound: A Shared Musical Experience for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.February workshops at Popsenteret in Oslo and the Corona virus’ effect on future workshops2020-03-14T16:00:00+00:002020-03-14T16:00:00+00:00http://wonomute.no/blog/February-workshops-at-Popsenteret-in-Oslo-and-the-Corona-virus-effect-on-future-workshops<p><a href="http://wonomute.no/workshops/calendar/">The spring program for WoNoMute Oslo</a> consists of seven workshops and the first ones were held at <a href="http://www.popsenteret.no">Popsenteret</a>, Norway’s capital-based interactive museum of popular music.</p>
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<p><a href="http://wonomute.no/directory-of-wonomute/tejaswinee-kelkar/">Tejaswinee Kelkar</a> held a workshop on live-coding in <a href="https://gibber.cc/">Gibber</a>, a creative coding environment for audiovisual performance and composition. It contains features for audio synthesis and musical sequencing, 2d drawing, 3d scene construction and manipulation, and live-coding shaders. Ten participants came to join a fun and interesting lecture with Kelkar, working on making their own ideas into musical interactive pieces.</p>
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<img src="/assets/img/workshop-Juno.png" alt="From WoNoMute Instagram Stories" />
<figcaption>Juno Jensen, aka Pieces of Juno, from WoNoMute's Instagram Stories</figcaption>
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<p>The week after <a href="https://www.junojensen.com/">Juno Jensen</a>, aka Pieces of Juno, held a lecture where she shared her methods of working with the album series Kalopsia, Tacenda, Metanoia og Euthymia (The last one soon to be released). She presented her way connecting her work with philosophy and yoga during the process and shared her advices on how to work with music from ideas into a finished record, both with the music, visuals, live concepts and also with the label KOSO. It was a pure inspirational lecture and the participants stayed after the workshop, sharing ideas and challenges in their own processes.</p>
<p>The last workshop was held by <a href="http://wonomute.no/directory-of-wonomute/mari-lesteberg/">Mari Lesteberg</a>, who teached how to make a music-app in the programs <a href="https://puredata.info/">Pure Data (PD)</a> and <a href="http://danieliglesia.com/mobmuplat/">MobMuPlat</a>. PD was used to program music and sound, with digital effects, synths and sound installations. The visuals for the app was made in MobMuPlat Editor. After the workshop all participants had a new, self-made, music app on their phones. Mari has made some great tutorials for learning this at home, that you can find here:</p>
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<p>Thanks a lot to Popsenteret for making the collaboration with WoNoMute possible.</p>
<h2 id="what-happens-with-the-upcoming-workshops-at-university-of-oslo">What happens with the upcoming workshops at University of Oslo?</h2>
<p>The next four workshops were intended to be arranged at the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. However, after the outbreak of the <a href="https://www.vg.no/spesial/2020/corona-viruset/">Corona virus (COVID-19)</a> in Norway, all <a href="https://www.uio.no/english/about/hse/coronavirus/">events at the University of Oslo have been canceled</a>, currently until the 14th of April. That means that our two Reaper workshops with Jessica Sligter (12 and 13 March) and our Max workshop with Henrik the Artist (6 April) is affected. It might be that the Audacity workshop with Ane Bjerkan (4 May) also will be affected, but that we don’t know yet.</p>
<p>We will however try to arrange our workshops digitally via the <a href="http://zoom.us">Zoom.us</a> platform. Zoom is a free video communication platform, similar to Skype, that has been used in teaching situations. WoNoMute has been using it in the <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/">seminar series</a>, when we were streaming the seminars between Oslo and Trondheim, and also live online in our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJBmbiEb8dc&list=PLNjR_YNj6xHezZm5nt-hsxum1INXo8O52">youtube channel</a>. This means that you still can sign up to our workshops and be able to participate from home. You don’t need a webcam, but a headset (intentionally with a microphone if you want to be able to ask questions) would be useful.</p>
<p>The positive side of this is that now, geographically speaking, <em>anyone</em> can sign up to our upcoming workshops, not only the Oslo based participants. We still, however, want this to be a women/trans/non-binary only event.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.hf.uio.no/imv/english/research/news-and-events/events/other/wonomute/workshops/2020/dawintro/index.html">The two first workshops</a> with <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/48iIbouLgLgL2jeZQ7OaTO">Jessica Sligter</a> , have been postponed and will be arranged digitally in <em>week 12</em>, more information on which days and which time will come later. All participants are informed via e-mail.</p>
<p>We are of course sad that we won’t be able to arrange our events in a normal manner, but at the same time we are glad that the virus outbreak is taken seriously by the University of Oslo, and that they take extra cautiousness in this extraordinary situation.</p>
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<figcaption>It's sad that we can't offer the in-real-life workshops in the current situation, but at least we have the option of doing it online.</figcaption>
</figure>Ane Bjerkan and Mari LestebergThe spring program for WoNoMute Oslo consists of seven workshops and the first ones were held at Popsenteret, Norway's capital-based interactive museum of popular music. The next four workshops were intended to be arranged at the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. However, after the outbreak of the Corona virus (COVID-19) in Norway, all events at the University of Oslo have been canceled, currently until the 14 of April. But we have a plan ...International Women’s Day 2020 - March Eight Compilation2020-03-08T08:00:00+00:002020-03-08T08:00:00+00:00http://wonomute.no/March-Eight-Compilation<p>We are devoting today’s celebration to the women who have fought for 100 years for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2012/mar/08/clara-zetkin-international-womens-day">equal rights</a>, visibility and <a href="https://time.com/5187268/international-womens-day-history/">social justice</a> across the globe.</p>
<p>Let’s keep up the struggle!</p>
<p>To promote the music of women composers, music technologists and more, we have taken the liberty of remixing the music from some of our
WoNoMute network members along with some favorite tracks. We aimed for diversity and exchange, feel free to comment your favorite track of
the day below.</p>
<h4 id="the-playlist">The Playlist:</h4>
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<h4 id="some-of-the-tracks-we-wanted-to-include-in-the-playlist-are-not-on-youtube-but-please-check-them-out-anyway">Some of the tracks we wanted to include in the playlist are not on Youtube, but please check them out anyway:</h4>
<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/768466945&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe>
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/125294501" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/125294501">#newwoman</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/poemproducer">Antye Greie-Ripatti</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/523696488&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe>
<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/76830012&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe>
<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/688803289&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe>
<iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=551554748/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="http://resurgencedunon.bandcamp.com/album/peste">Peste by Paule Perrier</a></iframe>WoNoMuteWe are devoting today’s celebration to the women who have fought for 100 years for equal rights, visibility and social justice across the globe. Let’s keep up the struggle!1st Anniversary of WoNoMute and Future Directions2019-11-15T11:00:00+00:002019-11-15T11:00:00+00:00http://wonomute.no/blog/1st-Anniversary-of-WoNoMute<figure>
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<img src="/assets/blog/1st-anniversary-WoNoMute-10.jpg" class="" style="max-width: 100%;" alt="First edition of WoNoMute Seminar Series and Interviews. From left-right top-bottom: Miranda Moen, Alexandra Murray-Leslie, Tone Åse, Tami Gadir, Angela Brennecke, Pamela Z, Sofia Dahl, Natasha Barrett, Liz Dobson, Sølvi Ystad. Logo designed by Robin Mientjes (KOSO)." />
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<figcaption class="" style="max-width: 100%;">First edition of WoNoMute Seminar Series and Interviews. From left-right top-bottom: Miranda Moen, Alexandra Murray-Leslie, Tone Åse, Tami Gadir, Angela Brennecke, Pamela Z, Sofia Dahl, Natasha Barrett, Liz Dobson, Sølvi Ystad. Logo designed by Robin Mientjes (KOSO).</figcaption>
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<h2 id="starting-the-organization">Starting the Organization</h2>
<p>WoNoMute stands for Women Nordic Music Technology and started in August 2018 together with the beginning of the master <a href="https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/mmct">Music Communication and Technology</a>, both activities supported conjointly by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and University of Oslo, in particular from the Faculties of Humanities of the two universities. This is important to highlight as it showcases how the humanities are adapting to the technological challenges and changes with a critical spirit! It is also worth mentioning the vision of the MCT master, a master’s programme originated by Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Sigurd Saue.</p>
<p>The WoNoMute organization was founded by Anna Xambó upon her arrival at NTNU in alignment with the music tech group’s, Department of Music’s and Faculty of Humanities’s will to improve the underrepresentation of women in techno-scientific fields. The organization’s aim is to promote and connect the work of women in music technology at local, national and international levels.</p>
<p>WoNoMute started with a series of monthly seminar talks over the course of one year with 10 relevant local, national and international women figures in the field who have been invited to talk for audience in Trondheim, audience in Oslo and online viewers: <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/2018-10-17-miranda-moen-seminar-talk.html">Miranda Moen</a>, <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/2018-11-11-alexandra-murray-leslie-seminar-talk.html">Alexandra Murray-Leslie</a>, <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/2019-01-10-tone-aase-seminar-talk.html">Tone Åse</a>, <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/2019-01-25-tami-gadir-seminar-talk.html">Tami Gadir</a>, <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/2019-02-11-angela-brennecke-seminar-talk.html">Angela Brennecke</a>, <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/pamela-z-seminar-talk">Pamela Z</a>, <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/sofia-dahl-seminar-talk">Sofia Dahl</a>, <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/natasha-barrett-seminar-talk">Natasha Barrett</a>, <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/liz-dobson-seminar-talk">Liz Dobson</a> and <a href="http://wonomute.no/seminars/soelvi-ystad-seminar-talk">Sølvi Ystad</a>. The guest speakers have been also interviewed in a video-sketch format combined with a textual format. This material has been, in turn, kept in an <a href="https://wonomute.no">online archive</a> for future access. The principle has been that if the community values what we do, we should be able to become sustainable after one year.</p>
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<figcaption class="" style="max-width: 100%;">Natasha Barrett during her talk in the WoNoMute Seminar Series with audience from Trondheim (bottom left) and Oslo (bottom right).</figcaption>
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<p>It is worth mentioning how the organization has evolved. Starting with the invaluable contributions from the MCT students, whom have brought their expertise and developed new skills: Karolina Jawad (co-chair of WoNoMute, production in Trondheim, interviewer, editor-in-chief of the blog), Mari Lesteberg (production in Oslo, musician and responsible of the WoNoMute directory from Autumn 2018 until Spring 2019), Ane Bjerkan (production in Oslo and workshops organizer from Spring 2019 to present), Tejaswinee Kelkar (workshops collaborator), Ada Mathea Hoel (artistic collaborator), and the AV and streaming team formed by Eigil Aandahl, Sepehr Haghighi, Jørgen Varpe, Shreejay Shrestha, Ulrik Antoniussen Halmøy, Espen Wik, Elias Andersen and Jarle Folkeson Steinhovden, among others. Continuing with the technical contributions from MCT teachers Robin Støckert (NTNU), Anders Tveit (UiO), Daniel Formo (NTNU), Thomas Henriksen (NTNU) and Alexander Refsum Jensenius (NTNU), who is also co-chair of the organization, as well as administrative and executive contributions from our departments with special thanks to Ellen Karlsen Holmås, Maj Vester Larsen, Øystein Marker and Inna Aalmo. To the influential conversations from our consultants. To the fantastic work by the logo designer Robin Mientjes (KOSO) and the illustrator Oscar Martinez Castells with the illustration <a href="http://wonomute.no/assets/downloads/WoNoMuTe-March-8-2019-A3.jpg">“9 Women in Music Tech (WoMuTe) Heroes”</a>, which has become our identity image. And the list of people who have helped on one way or another is uncountable.</p>
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<figcaption class="" style="max-width: 100%;">Karolina Jawad interviewing Pamela Z for the WoNoMute online archive.</figcaption>
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<h2 id="the-impact">The Impact</h2>
<p>The organization has been designed as an horizontal network so that it can grow organically and let their members take ownership by proposing new ideas and ways of doing. WoNoMute has currently two defined nodes in Trondheim and Oslo, respectively, and hopefully there will be more! WoNoMute has also an important presence in social media, with almost 400 hundred followers in total if we sum all the networks.</p>
<p>At present, WoNoMute has produced a range of material for the online archive:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/interviews/">7 written interviews</a> (expected 9 in December 2019)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQAKbKQkieNgblhtV1Z8MA">7 biosketch videos</a> (expected 9 in December 2019)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQAKbKQkieNgblhtV1Z8MA">6 videoed presentations</a> (expected 8 in December 2019)</li>
<li><a href="/blog/">7 blog posts of diverse topics</a></li>
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<p>We have also spread the word and have done artistic collaborations and dissemination activities:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wonomute.no/post/2019/02/13/Connecting-through-connection-A-new-and-futuristic-way-of-performing.html">1 artistic residency @SARC with 2 WoNoMute members</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wonomute.no/2019-03-08-international-womens-day-womute-heroes/">1 open call of women in music tech figures</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wonomute.no/blog/10th-anniversary-festival-en-tiempo-real-wonomute-playlist/">1 playlist of WoNoMute members</a></li>
<li>2 presentations about the organization (Trondheim GirlGeekDinners 2019, FAEN 2019)</li>
<li>2 MCT presentations (NTNU, FilmUniversität Babelsberg)</li>
<li><a href="http://wonomute.no/workshops/">2 workshops at UiO</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wonomute.no/blog/WoNoMute-Oslo-has-started/">1 winter camp at UiO</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The impact of the WoNoMute’s online archive during the first year can be summarized as follows (data ranging from September 2018 to August 2019):</p>
<ul>
<li>Visits from +60 countries</li>
<li>More than 1800 new visitors</li>
<li>More than 240 returning visitors</li>
<li>An average of 155 visitors per month!</li>
</ul>
<p>In terms of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQAKbKQkieNgblhtV1Z8MA">WoNoMute YouTube channel</a>, we have received almost 400 views.</p>
<h2 id="towards-a-sustainable-and-meaningful-organization">Towards a Sustainable and Meaningful Organization</h2>
<p>All together, we could not imagine that this would grow so fast and we would have so much support at so many levels. However, we are still facing the issues of women underrepresented in our master and the uncertainty of how sustainable this initiative is. We are aware that this will not be solved in the next weeks or months, but we should work on the following goals so that the next WoNoMute edition can become more impactful and consistent with its vision:</p>
<ul>
<li>Having more women at all stages of their academic careers represented in the master’s program and WoNoMute network.</li>
<li>Becoming a sustainable organization.</li>
<li>Keep growing sustainably, making activities that are relevant to their WoNoMute members, and connecting between the WoNoMute members at both local and transversal levels, so that we make sure that the information and opportunities move throughout the network.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you would like to get involved, check our webpage on <a href="http://wonomute.no/about/how-can-you-help-us/">“How you can help us”</a>. See you in the next WoNoMute seminar talk!</p>Anna XambóWoNoMute stands for Women Nordic Music Technology and started in August 2018 together with the beginning of the master Music Communication and Technology, both activities supported conjointly by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and University of Oslo, in particular from the Faculties of Humanities of the two universities.