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Conversations in Berlin
Discourse on Gender, Equilibrium, and Empowerment in Audio Production
Statistics documenting gender diversity in music and audio production have shown audio domains to be overwhelmingly white and cis male across a range of audio industry sectors (Born & Devine, 2015; Dobson, 2018; Gavanas & Reitsamer, 2013; Smith, Choueiti, & Pieper, 2018, female:pressures’ facts survey1). This situation can reinforce assumptions that associate masculinity and technology (Leonard, 2017), where women are believed to understand less while simultaneously being subjected to a higher standard – to a kind of ‘super-surveillance’ (Puwar, 2004: 92). Drawing from a series of 18 interviews conducted with Berlin-based womxn2 (Gourd, ...
