Adele Fournet is a music producer and video artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She is also a music scholar and holds a phd in music from New York University. She writes about the intersections of gender, technology, labor, and aesthetics in popular music production with a geographic focus on the Americas. Adele has received support for her research from Fulbright, the NYU McCracken Foundation, Humanities New York, and the NYU Center for the Humanities. She has performed her original music at cultural institutions including Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center while also participating in and celebrating independent and DIY music spaces.

Adele has an audio and video production company called Bit Rosie. The Bit Rosie web series (www.bitrosie.com) features female and gender expansive music producers and is an inaugural component of the NYU library's first music-related video streaming web archive.  Her films have been screened on PBS New York, the NYC Independent Film Festival, and Cine Las Americas Film Festival, among others. Current personal music projects include Tipa Tipo and La Banda Chuska.

Texts, scores and interviews by Adele Fournet (click to read/download):

• Tipa Tipo interview on NewSounds WNYC with John Schaefer

• Guide to the Adele Fournet Papers at NYU Fales Archive

• Bit Rosie: A Case Study in Transforming Web-Based Multimedia Research into Digital Archives (American Archivist, 2021)

• F**k B*tches Raw on the Kitchen Floor (Sexuality & Culture, 2020)

• There’s Some Whores in this House: An Examination of Female Sexuality in R&B/Hip Hop and Pop Music, 1991–2021 (Sexuality & Culture, 2023)

• Web Series Bit Rosie Finds the Beat Behind the Scenes (Tom Tom Magazine, 2016)

• Why Is Technology Sexist? (Trax Magazine, 2017)

• Women Rockers and the Strategies of a Minority Position (Music & The Arts in Action, 2012)

• Por Fin Parió Paula (Tom Tom Magazine, 2013)

• Schoreo 1: (Score)

• ColorWheel (Score)

• On Death (Score)

to make contact: adelefournet(at)gmail.com