GenDyTrouble: Cyber*Feminist Computer Music

This short essay describes the theoretical underpinnings of the work GenDyTrouble: Cyber*Feminist Computer Music, part of a larger ongoing project entitled GenDyTrouble, a multi-channel computer music performance. The project is an attempt to enact a symbolic collision between Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis’ technique of sound generation, “Génération Dynamique Stochastique” (often shortened to GenDyn or sometimes GenDy) and Judith Butler’s foundational work of queer theory, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). As a thought experiment, the project asks what fusing the mathematical-generative power of computers with an emancipatory gender-politics could achieve. The project perches critically on the shoulders of previous cyberfeminists to both create and listen to what a sonic cyberfeminism could sound like.

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