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Peggy Wells Sisters with Transistors. “With two oscillators, a turntable and tape delay.” Directed by Lisa Rovner, this archival documentary celebrates the women whose breakthroughs in early electronic music laid the foundations of modern styles – and whose work has been overlooked by many. Advertisement th century shaped women and electronic music alike. Though Sisters with Transistors begins in the 1930s with Clara Rockmore, a virtuoso theremin performer, it takes wing when it reaches the second world war. Experimental musician Delia Derbyshire cited the air raid sirens during the bo...

Being a Doctor Who fan is a lot like belonging to a club. You’re part of a fandom that spans all over the world and crops up in the strangest of places. But as with all clubs, it’s not always a good idea to broadcast your love to everyone you meet. So what are the signals we can use to sound out fellow fans without alerting n00bs and anti-Whovians as to our primary passion? What can we do that screams “I love Doctor Who” but only to other people who love Doctor Who? Clothes Now, the entry level stuff is fairly obvious — the brown stripy suit, 3D specs and Converse combo, the froc...

The eight SXSW Film Festival titles we're most excited about. One of the world’s hippest film festivals kicks off on Wednesday morning (New Zealand time) in a virtual format for the second year in a row. Rather than take place on the streets and in the cinemas of Austin, Texas, the 2021 edition of South by Southwest (SXSW) has gone completely online. First held in 1987, it is actually part of a larger conglomeration of activities that includes interactive media, music festivals and conferences. While the Kiwi presence is limited this time around, it has previously hosted (and boosted) New...