Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrations

Episode 14: ADA BAB(BLE)

electric voice theatre

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A special PODCAST to celebrate the 205th birthday of Mathematician and Computer Pioneer, Ada Lovelace, who was born on 10th December 1815 https://minervascientifica.co.uk/Ada-Lovelace/

SPEAKERS:
Dr Patricia Fara – Science historian, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge
Laura Trevail – contextual artist and technologist from Essex

MUSIC:
“Something More Than Mortal” by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
A setting of words by Ada Lovelace

“ADA BAB(BLE)” by Frances M Lynch
….a short history of women in computing….
Recorded THIS WEEK by electric voice theatre singers
Sopranos – Peyee Chen & Frances M Lynch
Mezzo – Jenny Miller
Countertenor – David Sheppard
Tenor – Julian Stocker
Written for the 200th Ada Lovelace centenary
First performed at the Science Museum London

The series presenter is Frances M Lynch, Artistic Director of electric voice theatre.

Part of electric voice theatre’s Essex 2020 Minerva Scientifica project “Echoes from Essex” supported by the British Society for the History of Science https://www.bshs.org.uk/