Out of roiling French feminist theory in the 1970s, philosopher and writer H l ne Cixous developed the practice of lecture feminine - based on the notion of criture f minine - as an analytic approach in her own seminars. In musicology, it wasn't until the 1990s that gender studies introduced new attitudes as methods. Might Cixous' lecture f minine serve as a historically rooted analytic approach for musicology and multimedia today? A theory of otherness...