Tara Rodgers

Rodgers graduated from Brown University in 1995, earning an AB with Honors in American Studies.{{cite web|title=Fresh Ink|url=http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2546/40/|publisher=Brown Alumni Magazine|date=May–June 2010}}{{cite book|title=Americans are a race of frustrated baseball heroes: Gender, baseball and softball in the United States, 1900-1950 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/549640438|publisher=WorldCat|oclc=549640438|accessdate=August 9, 2014}} She received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in 2006 and earned a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University in 2011.

Rodgers was visiting faculty in sound at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 2004 to 2005. She was a Canada-US Fulbright scholar in Montreal in 2006/2007.{{cite web|url=https://inside.mills.edu/news/2006/newsarticle06132006mills_fulbright_scholars.php|title=Three Mills College Alumnae Named Fulbright Scholars|date=June 13, 2006|publisher=Mills College|access-date=March 24, 2018}} From 2010 to 2013, she was an assistant professor of Women's studies and Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Digital Cultures and Creativity at the University of Maryland. In 2011, Rodgers established the Women's Studies Multimedia Studio at UMD. Rodgers also served on the faculty of Dartmouth College in 2013.{{cite news|url=http://music.dartmouth.edu/graduate/people|title=Digital Musics Highlights|date=March 24, 2018|work=The Graduate Program}}

Rodgers founded the website PinkNoises.com in 2000 to document the works of women in electronic music and to provide music production resources.{{cite news|last1=Piasta|first1=Jacquie|title=Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound|url=http://elevatedifference.com/review/pink-noises-women-electronic-music-and-sound|work=Elevate Difference|date=June 7, 2010}}{{cite web|title=Tara Rodgers: Patterns of Movement Pre-Show Interview|url=http://stampgallery.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/tara-rodgers-patterns-of-movement-pre-show-interview-13/|publisher=Stamp Gallery|date=July 17, 2012}} The site was nominated for a Webby Award in the category of Best Music Website in 2003.{{cite web|url=https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2003/web/general-website/music/|title=7th Annual Webby Awards: Music|year=2003|publisher=The Webby Awards|access-date=March 24, 2018}} Her composition, "Butterfly Effects," was inspired by the behaviors of migrating butterflies.{{cite web|url=http://traktion.com/interviews/interview-with-tara-rodgers/|title=Tara Rodgers - Interviewed by Corina MacDonald|date=November 15, 2007|publisher=Vague Terrain|access-date=March 24, 2018}} Written in SuperCollider, it won the IAWM New Genre Prize in 2007.{{cite journal|last1=Rodgers|first1=Tara|title=Butterfly Effects: Synthesis, Emergence, and Transduction|journal=Leonardo Electronic Almanac|date=2006|volume=14|issue=8|url=http://www.leoalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/03Butterfly-Effects-Synthesis-Emergence-and-Transduction-by-Tara-Rodgers-Vol-14-No-7-8-November-2006-Leonardo-Electronic-Almanac.pdf}}{{cite web|url=https://iawm.org/snm-winners|title=Search for New Music by Women Composers: Past Award Recipients|publisher=International Alliance for Women in Music|accessdate=March 24, 2018}} She authored the 2010 book Pink Noises: Women On Electronic Music And Sound, which is a collection of interviews spotlighting female electronic musicians, composers, producers, and DJs.{{cite web|last=Matos |first=Michaelangelo |url=http://www.avclub.com/review/tara-rodgers-ipink-noisesi-39309 |title=Tara Rodgers: Pink Noises |publisher=The A.V. Club |date=March 18, 2010 |accessdate=2014-08-08}} The book received the 2011 Pauline Alderman Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM).{{cite web|url=https://iawm.org/pauline-alderman-awards-winners|title=Past Pauline Alderman Awards Recipients|publisher=International Alliance for Women in Music|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}

Following the release of Pink Noises, Rodgers has published essays and lectured on the history of synthesized sound. She is currently working as a composer and performer in the Washington, D.C. area.{{cite news|url=https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/building-curriculum-diversity-pink-noises/|title=Building Curriculum Diversity: Pink Noises|date=July 13, 2017|work=New Music Box|accessdate=March 24, 2018|publisher=New Music Box USA}}{{Cite news|url=https://blog.landr.com/ableton-loop-2016/|title=5 Ableton Loop Events You Absolutely Can't Miss {{!}} LANDR Blog|date=2016-11-04|work=LANDR Blog|access-date=2018-03-24|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/museum-of-portable-sound/media-crafting-tara-rodgers-collection-of-fiber-arts-audio-gear-45220a1fd339|title=Media Crafting: Tara Rodgers' Collection of Mini Fibre Arts Audio Gear|last=Kannenberg|first=John|date=2017-07-07|website=Medium|access-date=2018-03-24}}

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• [http://www.analogtara.net/ Official website]
• [https://www.dukeupress.edu/pink-noises Pink Noises] at Duke University Press
• [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/mss_456/index.html Guide to the Tara Rodgers Pink Noises Riot Grrrl Collection] Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University
• [http://wmst.umd.edu/academics/multimedia-studio# The Women's Studies Multimedia Studio] at the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland
• [https://tararodgers.bandcamp.com/ Analog Tara] at Bandcamp

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