Girls Twiddling Knobs

Feb 26 2025 123 ep. 47 mins 48
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The #1 feminist music tech podcast, featuring deep-diving episodes into all things music production and home recording and fascinating guest episodes with women making music with technology, hosted by Isobel Anderson.

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What Makes Something Jungle? With Jungalist Historian, Julia Toppin

Feb 26 2025 72 mins  
Send us a text What happened to jungle music? How did a genre born from Black British culture, reggae sound systems, and 90s rave scenes become dominated by white, male audiences—and where are the women who helped shape it? In this episode of Girls Twiddling Knobs, Isobel explores these questions with Julia Toppin, a lecturer, music entrepreneur, and self-proclaimed “Junglist H

Co-Producing An Album With Fran & Flora

Feb 12 2025 68 mins  
Send us a text What does it really mean to be a producer, and why do so many women hesitate to claim the title? In this episode of Girls Twiddling Knobs, we sit down with Fran & Flora—an innovative violin and cello duo blending Yiddish, Romanian, and Transylvanian folk music with improvisation, electronics, and sound experimentation. We dive into their co-production journey o

EP#101: How to Press Your Music on Vinyl: Expert Tips from Women in Vinyl’s Jenn D'Eugenio

Jan 15 2025 67 mins  
Send us a text Are you an artist or music producer dreaming of releasing your music on vinyl? In this episode of Girls Twiddling Knobs, Isobel Anderson sits down with Jenn D'Eugenio, founder of Women in Vinyl, to uncover the fascinating process behind pressing music onto records. Jenn shares expert insights on preparing your audio and artwork for vinyl, tips for selecting the right

Celebrating 100 Episodes of Girls Twiddling Knobs

Jan 01 2025 104 mins  
Send us a text Celebrating 100 episodes of empowering women in music, Girls Twiddling Knobs host Isobel Anderson takes listeners on a reflective journey through the evolution of the podcast, revisiting its top five most popular episodes, including conversations with Kate Nash, Orla Gartland and Victoria Witjeratne. Featuring listener Q&A, insights into key challenges for women

Sounding Knitting, Knitting Sound: in conversation with Felicity Ford

Dec 17 2024 67 mins  
Send us a text What do sound and knitting have in common? You’d be forgiven for thinking not much, but both have been constant companions across the life and career of sound artist and knitter, Felicity Ford also know as Felix. Join sobel as she visits Felix in her St Leonard’s home to talk about her journey into field recording, soundscape composition and using this skillset t

Master Music Production with Visualization: Unlock Your Creative Confidence and Skills

Dec 04 2024 50 mins  
Send us a text Feeling stuck in your music production journey? Struggling with self-doubt or tempted to buy more gear in the hopes it will transform your sound? This episode is for you. In today’s episode of Girls Twiddling Knobs, we’re exploring how visualisation—a powerful mental tool used by top performers—can help you: ✨ Unlock your creative confidence. 🎛️ Overco

Burnout, gender and music technology with Denise Devenish

Nov 20 2024 76 mins  
Send us a text Luckily, there’s far more conversations happening about musicians’ mental health these days. But how might gender impact our experience of things like depression and anxiety? And how might this differ in a music technology setting, specifically? Because, while this is something that’s often touched upon in wider conversations around gender and music technology,

The Art Of Authentic Production In A Post-Internet World: In conversation with Maria Uzor

Nov 05 2024 62 mins  
Send us a text In a world that’s always online, how do we stay true to ourselves as artists? This week on Girls Twiddling Knobs, we tackle this question with the fiercely original electronic music producer Maria Uzor. Growing up as a Black artist in a predominantly White area of the UK, Maria often felt like an outsider. But she turned that feeling into a sound that’s bold, raw

EP#95: Pushing the Boundaries of Sound: Oram Awards Special

Oct 23 2024 59 mins  
Send us a text What unique facets of our existence and identity does sound allow us to explore as women and gender diverse artists? This is one of the big questions that emerges inside this conversation with three of the five 2024 Oram Award winners. Whether it be through choreography, performance art, hacking or design, Lola De La Mata, xname and The Silver Field are all artists w

Season 06 Trailer

Oct 17 2024 21 mins  
Send us a text Join Isobel for all the juicy details on what you can expect to find inside of Season 06 of the podcast, dropping on October 24th. Listen and subscribe to the podcast: https://femalediymusician.com/podcast And share the podcast with a friend so we can spread the word, and making music technology a better place for women and gender diverse people. If you loved listeni