Adele Fournet is an interdisciplinary artist working at the crossroads of recorded sound, video, and performance. She is also a music scholar who writes about the intersections of gender, technology, labor, and aesthetics in popular music production with a geographic focus on the Americas. Adele holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from NYU and has received support for her research from Fulbright, Humanities New York, and the NYU Center for the Humanities. She has performed with her bands Tipa Tipo and La Banda Chuska at music cornerstones including Lincoln Center and SXSW 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. She is a professor of music creation and production at Jacobs School of Music.

Publications & Interviews:

• 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)

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

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

to make contact: adelefournet(at)gmail.com