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originally from upstate New York, is based in Montreal.
She performed jazz piano in NYC in the mid-1990s, and has produced electronic music and led recording workshops for about 10 years. Recent projects include a quiet album of piano and field recordings; a live techno set; and sound and video installations based on butterfly migrations, human population shifts, and urban landscapes. Her work received the 2007 New Genre Prize from the International Alliance of Women in Music, and a 2006 Frog Peak Experimental Music Award.
Tara was a Visiting Professor of Sound at the Museum School in Boston in 2004-05, and a Canada-U.S. Fulbright scholar in 2006-07.
was a webzine and will soon be a book.
The webzine, Pinknoises.com, was founded by Analog Tara in 2000 and designed by Karen Choy. It was created to counteract the lack of coverage of women in electronic music magazines and history books, and to make technical information on music production more widely accessible to women and girls. The site is no longer updated, but much of the content remains archived online.
The book, Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound, is an anthology of 24 interviews, most of which were conducted after the website's tenure. It includes DJs, electronic music producers, and sound installation artists of various generations and cultural backgrounds. The artists talk about their background in music and technology, their creative methods, and gendered aspects of electronic music and sound. Pink Noises also includes a discography, a technical glossary, and an introduction that connects feminist theories to electronic music. The book is under contract with Duke University Press.
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