In this special issue on gender and music technology the following articles: 'Bodies of evidence, singing cyborgs and other gender issues in electrovocal music' by Hannah Bosma : 'On gender in new music interface technology' by Georg Essl : 'Women and music technology: pioneers, precedents and issues in the United States' by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner : 'Daphne Oram: innovator, writer and composer' by Jo Hutton : 'Project Lovelace: unprecedented opportunities for music education' by Mary Simoni : 'Electoacoustic voices in vocal performace art - a gender issue?' by Theda Weber-Lucks : 'Desire and distance in Kaija Saariaho's Lohn' by Anne Sivuoja-Gunaratnam : 'Wounds like flowers opening: a discussion of Hysteria for trombone and four-channel tape' by Cindy Cox : 'In and out of the sound studio' by Andra McCartney : 'GLOBULE of NON-STANDARD: an attempted clarification of globular identity politics in Japanese electronic 'sightseeing music' by Terre Thaemlitz : 'Shaken or stirred - virtual reverberation spaces and tranformative gender identities in Kaija Saariaho's NoaNoa (1992) for flute and electronics' by Taina Riikonen : and 'Homoeroticsm and electroacoustic music: absence and personal voice' by Barry Truax.