How to Talk of Music Technology: An Interview Analysis Study of Live Interfaces for Music Performance among Expert Women

With the aim of making women’s work in music technology more visible, the organization Women
Nordic Music Technology (WoNoMute) has originated conversations with expert women in the form of seminar
talks and interviews that are archived digitally. This paper analyses the first seven interviews and seminar
talks with women from this online archive using thematic analysis. We explore whether and how their gender
determines the shape of their tools focusing on live interfaces. From our findings, we propose to investigate
alternative usage of the technical term ‘music technology’ to accommodate more diversity and fluidity into
the field. This can inform the revision of the language used in education and human-computer interaction in
order to be more inclusive but also to become more conscious about the creation of professional and academic
environments that involve music technology.