In a coproduction with The Lab and Audium, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is proud to offer four evenings of stimulating performances by internationally recognized composers, performers, and audio artists in the electronic music field. This year's lineup includes a wide array of electronic music pioneers, modern innovators, and emerging artists, ranging in diverse styles from noise to sound sculpture, free improvisation, ensemble composition, avant pop music, and video art. The work ranges from explorations of brainwaves, intricate piano etudes with an electronic twist, and late night SF-inspired musique concrete, to enhanced human bodies as extended instruments.
This year's festival begins Thursday, September 19th, at Audium Theater of Sound, with three unique works of spatial sound art composed specifically for Audium's 176 surround speakers. The festival opens with Sally Decker and Brendan Glasson, who delve into the qualities and trajectories of movement through sound. This work is followed by Ronald Peabody's AFRICALIEN, using brainwaves to guide an immersive exploration of beauty in confusion. The night concludes with Danishta Rivero's Heretical Voicings bathing the audience in Rivero's live, heavily processed voice.
Friday, September 20th, SFEMF moves to The Lab for the remainder of the festival, opening with Amanda Chaudhary and her visually stunning interdisciplinary electronic work, followed by Pedestrian Deposit's genre-busting visceral narratives, and concluding with Evicshen's thrilling journey of noise, sampling, synthesis, and live processing.
Saturday begins with Julie Herndon's beautifully intimate Electronic Etudes for acoustic piano and live electronic processing. Sholeh Asgary continues with her future mythological excavations in movement, light, voice, and sound. Saturday closes with Valerio Tricoli's stunning intricate and evolving textures inspired by a late-night stoned dice game.
The festival concludes Sunday with Dustin Wong's creation of benevolent chaos through live-looping, followed by Briana Marela's experimental pop with enhanced electronic objects, and concludes with Eddie Ruscha sounding the unpredictable.
Program:
Thursday, Sept 19, 8 pm at Audium Theater of Sound
Sally Decker and Brendan Glasson
Ronald Peabody
Danishta Rivero
Friday, Sept 20, 8 pm at The Lab
Amanda Chaudhary
Pedestrian Deposit
Victoria Shen (Evicshen)
Saturday, Sept 21, 8 pm at The Lab
Julie Herndon
Sholeh Asgary
Valerio Tricoli
Sunday, Sept 22, 8 pm at The Lab
Dustin Wong
Briana Marela
Eddie Ruscha
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The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is an artist-run organization founded in 1999 by a committee of eight Bay Area electro-acoustic music and sound art practitioners. Its mission is to provide a highly visible public forum for the diverse community of composers and sound artists working with electronic-based technologies in the Bay Area and beyond. Designed as an annual multi-day event consisting of concerts, installations and discussions, the primary focus is on independent artists whose innovative aesthetics challenge academic and commercial standards. The Committee's goals are long-term: to establish the festival as an annual presence in the Bay Area; to foster a greater sense of community among the diverse group of Bay Area sound artists; to stimulate the creation of new electronic sound works; to increase public awareness of new sound-based technologies and their creative applications; to raise the level of discourse surrounding music and sound-art; and to raise the national and international profile of the Bay Area as a center for electronic music and sound art.
Since the first festival in 2000, SFEMF has presented works that span the sonic spectra from ambient to rhythmic and atonal to melodic by participants ranging from new and emerging young artists to respected pioneers of the electronic music field. Each festival features artists working in a variety of modes including: laptop generated sound, processed live acoustic instruments, amplified found objects, projected video, improvisation, and performance art.
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival operates under the Fiscal Sponsorship of Circuit Network in San Francisco.
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This year's festival begins Thursday, September 19th, at Audium Theater of Sound, with three unique works of spatial sound art composed specifically for Audium's 176 surround speakers. The festival opens with Sally Decker and Brendan Glasson, who delve into the qualities and trajectories of movement through sound. This work is followed by Ronald Peabody's AFRICALIEN, using brainwaves to guide an immersive exploration of beauty in confusion. The night concludes with Danishta Rivero's Heretical Voicings bathing the audience in Rivero's live, heavily processed voice.
Friday, September 20th, SFEMF moves to The Lab for the remainder of the festival, opening with Amanda Chaudhary and her visually stunning interdisciplinary electronic work, followed by Pedestrian Deposit's genre-busting visceral narratives, and concluding with Evicshen's thrilling journey of noise, sampling, synthesis, and live processing.
Saturday begins with Julie Herndon's beautifully intimate Electronic Etudes for acoustic piano and live electronic processing. Sholeh Asgary continues with her future mythological excavations in movement, light, voice, and sound. Saturday closes with Valerio Tricoli's stunning intricate and evolving textures inspired by a late-night stoned dice game.
The festival concludes Sunday with Dustin Wong's creation of benevolent chaos through live-looping, followed by Briana Marela's experimental pop with enhanced electronic objects, and concludes with Eddie Ruscha sounding the unpredictable.
Program:
Thursday, Sept 19, 8 pm at Audium Theater of Sound
Sally Decker and Brendan Glasson
Ronald Peabody
Danishta Rivero
Friday, Sept 20, 8 pm at The Lab
Amanda Chaudhary
Pedestrian Deposit
Victoria Shen (Evicshen)
Saturday, Sept 21, 8 pm at The Lab
Julie Herndon
Sholeh Asgary
Valerio Tricoli
Sunday, Sept 22, 8 pm at The Lab
Dustin Wong
Briana Marela
Eddie Ruscha
~~~~~~~~~
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is an artist-run organization founded in 1999 by a committee of eight Bay Area electro-acoustic music and sound art practitioners. Its mission is to provide a highly visible public forum for the diverse community of composers and sound artists working with electronic-based technologies in the Bay Area and beyond. Designed as an annual multi-day event consisting of concerts, installations and discussions, the primary focus is on independent artists whose innovative aesthetics challenge academic and commercial standards. The Committee's goals are long-term: to establish the festival as an annual presence in the Bay Area; to foster a greater sense of community among the diverse group of Bay Area sound artists; to stimulate the creation of new electronic sound works; to increase public awareness of new sound-based technologies and their creative applications; to raise the level of discourse surrounding music and sound-art; and to raise the national and international profile of the Bay Area as a center for electronic music and sound art.
Since the first festival in 2000, SFEMF has presented works that span the sonic spectra from ambient to rhythmic and atonal to melodic by participants ranging from new and emerging young artists to respected pioneers of the electronic music field. Each festival features artists working in a variety of modes including: laptop generated sound, processed live acoustic instruments, amplified found objects, projected video, improvisation, and performance art.
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival operates under the Fiscal Sponsorship of Circuit Network in San Francisco.
In a coproduction with The Lab and Audium, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is proud to offer four evenings of stimulating performances by internationally recognized composers, performers, and audio artists in the electronic music field. This year's lineup includes a wide array of electronic music pioneers, modern innovators, and emerging artists, ranging in diverse styles from noise to sound sculpture, free improvisation, ensemble composition, avant pop music, and video art. The work ranges from explorations of brainwaves, intricate piano etudes with an electronic twist, and late night SF-inspired musique concrete, to enhanced human bodies as extended instruments.
This year's festival begins Thursday, September 19th, at Audium Theater of Sound, with three unique works of spatial sound art composed specifically for Audium's 176 surround speakers. The festival opens with Sally Decker and Brendan Glasson, who delve into the qualities and trajectories of movement through sound. This work is followed by Ronald Peabody's AFRICALIEN, using brainwaves to guide an immersive exploration of beauty in confusion. The night concludes with Danishta Rivero's Heretical Voicings bathing the audience in Rivero's live, heavily processed voice.
Friday, September 20th, SFEMF moves to The Lab for the remainder of the festival, opening with Amanda Chaudhary and her visually stunning interdisciplinary electronic work, followed by Pedestrian Deposit's genre-busting visceral narratives, and concluding with Evicshen's thrilling journey of noise, sampling, synthesis, and live processing.
Saturday begins with Julie Herndon's beautifully intimate Electronic Etudes for acoustic piano and live electronic processing. Sholeh Asgary continues with her future mythological excavations in movement, light, voice, and sound. Saturday closes with Valerio Tricoli's stunning intricate and evolving textures inspired by a late-night stoned dice game.
The festival concludes Sunday with Dustin Wong's creation of benevolent chaos through live-looping, followed by Briana Marela's experimental pop with enhanced electronic objects, and concludes with Eddie Ruscha sounding the unpredictable.
Program:
Thursday, Sept 19, 8 pm at Audium Theater of Sound
Sally Decker and Brendan Glasson
Ronald Peabody
Danishta Rivero
Friday, Sept 20, 8 pm at The Lab
Amanda Chaudhary
Pedestrian Deposit
Victoria Shen (Evicshen)
Saturday, Sept 21, 8 pm at The Lab
Julie Herndon
Sholeh Asgary
Valerio Tricoli
Sunday, Sept 22, 8 pm at The Lab
Dustin Wong
Briana Marela
Eddie Ruscha
~~~~~~~~~
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is an artist-run organization founded in 1999 by a committee of eight Bay Area electro-acoustic music and sound art practitioners. Its mission is to provide a highly visible public forum for the diverse community of composers and sound artists working with electronic-based technologies in the Bay Area and beyond. Designed as an annual multi-day event consisting of concerts, installations and discussions, the primary focus is on independent artists whose innovative aesthetics challenge academic and commercial standards. The Committee's goals are long-term: to establish the festival as an annual presence in the Bay Area; to foster a greater sense of community among the diverse group of Bay Area sound artists; to stimulate the creation of new electronic sound works; to increase public awareness of new sound-based technologies and their creative applications; to raise the level of discourse surrounding music and sound-art; and to raise the national and international profile of the Bay Area as a center for electronic music and sound art.
Since the first festival in 2000, SFEMF has presented works that span the sonic spectra from ambient to rhythmic and atonal to melodic by participants ranging from new and emerging young artists to respected pioneers of the electronic music field. Each festival features artists working in a variety of modes including: laptop generated sound, processed live acoustic instruments, amplified found objects, projected video, improvisation, and performance art.
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival operates under the Fiscal Sponsorship of Circuit Network in San Francisco.
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This year's festival begins Thursday, September 19th, at Audium Theater of Sound, with three unique works of spatial sound art composed specifically for Audium's 176 surround speakers. The festival opens with Sally Decker and Brendan Glasson, who delve into the qualities and trajectories of movement through sound. This work is followed by Ronald Peabody's AFRICALIEN, using brainwaves to guide an immersive exploration of beauty in confusion. The night concludes with Danishta Rivero's Heretical Voicings bathing the audience in Rivero's live, heavily processed voice.
Friday, September 20th, SFEMF moves to The Lab for the remainder of the festival, opening with Amanda Chaudhary and her visually stunning interdisciplinary electronic work, followed by Pedestrian Deposit's genre-busting visceral narratives, and concluding with Evicshen's thrilling journey of noise, sampling, synthesis, and live processing.
Saturday begins with Julie Herndon's beautifully intimate Electronic Etudes for acoustic piano and live electronic processing. Sholeh Asgary continues with her future mythological excavations in movement, light, voice, and sound. Saturday closes with Valerio Tricoli's stunning intricate and evolving textures inspired by a late-night stoned dice game.
The festival concludes Sunday with Dustin Wong's creation of benevolent chaos through live-looping, followed by Briana Marela's experimental pop with enhanced electronic objects, and concludes with Eddie Ruscha sounding the unpredictable.
Program:
Thursday, Sept 19, 8 pm at Audium Theater of Sound
Sally Decker and Brendan Glasson
Ronald Peabody
Danishta Rivero
Friday, Sept 20, 8 pm at The Lab
Amanda Chaudhary
Pedestrian Deposit
Victoria Shen (Evicshen)
Saturday, Sept 21, 8 pm at The Lab
Julie Herndon
Sholeh Asgary
Valerio Tricoli
Sunday, Sept 22, 8 pm at The Lab
Dustin Wong
Briana Marela
Eddie Ruscha
~~~~~~~~~
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is an artist-run organization founded in 1999 by a committee of eight Bay Area electro-acoustic music and sound art practitioners. Its mission is to provide a highly visible public forum for the diverse community of composers and sound artists working with electronic-based technologies in the Bay Area and beyond. Designed as an annual multi-day event consisting of concerts, installations and discussions, the primary focus is on independent artists whose innovative aesthetics challenge academic and commercial standards. The Committee's goals are long-term: to establish the festival as an annual presence in the Bay Area; to foster a greater sense of community among the diverse group of Bay Area sound artists; to stimulate the creation of new electronic sound works; to increase public awareness of new sound-based technologies and their creative applications; to raise the level of discourse surrounding music and sound-art; and to raise the national and international profile of the Bay Area as a center for electronic music and sound art.
Since the first festival in 2000, SFEMF has presented works that span the sonic spectra from ambient to rhythmic and atonal to melodic by participants ranging from new and emerging young artists to respected pioneers of the electronic music field. Each festival features artists working in a variety of modes including: laptop generated sound, processed live acoustic instruments, amplified found objects, projected video, improvisation, and performance art.
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival operates under the Fiscal Sponsorship of Circuit Network in San Francisco.
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