Archiving Music - In Conversation with Fanny Chiarello

Join us for a Q&A with Fanny Chiarello, writer, musician and author of Basta Now: Women, Trans & Non-Binary in Experimental Music. In this powerful and wide-ranging book, Chiarello gives voice to artists who have historically been marginalised within experimental and avant-garde music scenes, challenging dominant narratives and rethinking who gets heard.

Chiarello will discuss the making of Basta Now, her approach to storytelling, and the political importance of documenting alternative musical histories. The event will explore experimental music as a site of resistance, collaboration and possibility, as well as the intersections of gender, creativity and cultural access.

This Q&A offers an opportunity to reflect on listening practices, visibility, and the urgent need for more inclusive archives of sound and practice.

Fanny Chiarello is the author of novels, poetry and children's literature, edited by numerous renowned French publishers. She notably wrote A happy woman, telling one month in New York with Meredith Monk. Basta Now (Women, Trans and Non-Binary in Experimental Music) is her first essay, and her first book in English; it has been released on Permanent Draft, a music label dedicated to finta* artists that she cofounded with Valentina Magaletti. Her work around Basta Now also takes the form of a column in a French quarterly dedicated to avant-garde music, Revue & Corrigée, a show on LYL Radio (https://lyl.live/show/basta-now) and an Instagram account, @basta_now, a daily rendez-vous with a finta* musician.