OUGD505 Studio Brief 2 - Research - Female DJ Collectives

OUGD505 Studio Brief 2 - Research - Female Music Collectives

Female:Pressure

Female pressure is an international network of female artists in the fields of electronic music and digital arts founded by Electric Indigo: from musicians, composers and DJs to visual artists, cultural workers and researchers. "Why are there so few women active in the electronic music scene?" - each one of us has heard this question a thousand times... Here is the answer: It's not our number, it's about how and if we are recognized. female:pressure intends to strengthen networking, communication and representation - a standard instrument to obtain information about artists, contact them, and find out about other, maybe less known women in electronic music all around the globe. 

DiscoWoman

This techno-focused New York collective has been running since 2014, founded by Frankie Hutchinson, Emma Burgess-Olson (who produces as Umfang), and Christine Tran. “I met Emma at Bossa because she played a techno track I liked and I asked her what it was. Christine I had met previously through her collective Witches,” says Frankie of how they came together. “Centering women allows us to make dope parties whilst being conscious of the reality of the fucking world.“ Following a recent night in Mexico with The Black Madonna, Discwoman has been announced as residents at Chicago’s Smart Bar for this year, as well as having potential plans to take things to the U.K., Chile, Colombia, and India.

Sister

Sister is an online collective that takes its form in a series of Soundcloud mixes and also a private Facebook group made for discussing and sharing music between female and non-binary people. The platform was created with “the aim of solidifying a network of women within underground club music.” Producer and DJ Toxe, who is part of Stockholm based label Staycore, founded the group and contributed the first mix in the series. Today, producers such as UNiiQU3, DJ Haram, and KABLAM are all an active part of the community—a safe place for women in club music to hang out and voice concerns that may be met with hostility elsewhere.

SIREN 

Siren comprises DJs, producers, promoters, music journalists, A&R scouts, radio show producers, and live performers. Siren have some clear objectives: “At our nights, we ask people to adhere to our slogan: 'no bullshit, just dancing.' They have a zero-tolerance policy on harassment, whether targeted at gender, race, sexual orientation, or ability.



Noise Manifesto

Their Manifesto - We declare that every release and event through Noise Manifesto will feature at least 50% artists who identify as trans, female, woman, non-male, non-conforming or queer. We killjoy the following: Violence, violations and hatred of any kind (racism, sexism, transphobia, queerphobia, etc) – no matter how commercially viable they are.