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San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
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Matt Davignon
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Sep 03, 2008 10:57 PDT
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Hi everyone,
I'm involved with the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival this year.
It runs tonight (Wednesday) through Sunday and promises to be buckets of
fun.
SAN FRANCISCO ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 through Sunday, September 7, 2008
Project Artaud Theatre, 450 Florida St, San Francisco, CA
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday performances start at 8pm
Sunday performance starts at 7pm
Sunday Pre-Show Talk at 6pm
Box Office and Installations open 1 hour before concert time.
Further Information: www.sfemf.org
The 2008 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival consists of five
evenings of stimulating performances by internationally recognized
artists and musicians in the electronic music field. This year's lineup
includes a wide array of electronic music pioneers, modern innovators,
and emerging artists, ranging in styles and methods including
contemporary chamber music, glitch, industrial sounds, music concrete,
sound design, drone music, free improvisation and avant-pop music. The
technology represented will range from old school synthesizers to the
most modern laptop computer patches, including exploration of
interactions between acoustic and electronic instruments. SFEMF 2008
will include several performances of works featuring sfSound Group, one
of the Bay Area's premiere 20th century and 21st century contemporary
music chamber ensembles.
For this year's festival, SFEMF has invited a diverse group of artists
from across the field of electronic music, including electronic music
pioneer Pauline Oliveros in a special collaboration with Tokyo-based
electro-acoustic composer Carl Stone, as well as New York minimalist
Phill Niblock, modern glitch-pop singer/musician Tujiko Noriko,
synthesizer improvisation innovator Richard Teitelbaum,
composer/cellist/video artist Agnes Szelag, an opera from CNMAT
co-director Edmund Campion, oscilloscope-inspired audio-visual artist
Ray Sweeten, electro-acoustic trombonist Monique Buzzarté, LA
improviser/filmmaker Hans Fjellestad, electronic experimental pop duo
Myrmyr, intense noise artist Sharkiface, Iranian-American
post-industrial musician Ata 'Sote' Ebtekar, scientific theory-inspired
computer music duo Barpieces, and Rutro and the Logs, a 5-piece ensemble
comprised of local improvisation and harsh noise all-stars. Every
evening, installations by three sound artists, Jen Boyd, Clay Chaplin,
and Alex Potts, will be on exhibition in the lobby and Artaud Café
Gallery,
PROGRAM:
Wednesday, September 3, 8:00 PM
Sharkiface, SF Sound Group, Phil Niblock
(installations by Boyd, Chaplin, and Potts start at 7)
Thursday, September 4, 8:00 PM
Ray Sweeten, Edmund Campion with Thomas Buckner, Tujiko Noriko
(installations by Boyd, Chaplin, and Potts start at 7)
Friday, September 5, 8:00 PM
Myrmyr, Ata 'Sote' Ebtekar, Richard Teitelbaum
(installations by Boyd, Chaplin, and Potts start at 7)
Saturday, September 6, 8:00 PM
Monique Buzzarté, Rutro and the Logs, Agnes Szelag
(installations by Boyd, Chaplin, and Potts start at 7)
Sunday, September 7, 7:00 PM
Barpieces, Hans Fjellestad, Pauline Oliveros and Carl Stone
(6pm Pre-concert talk with Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Hans
Fjellestad, and Edmund Campion)
(installations by Boyd, Chaplin, and Potts start at 6pm)
WHERE: Project Artaud Theater (450 Florida Street, San Francisco)
BUY TICKETS ONLINE NOW!
Tickets: $17 General; $12 Student/Discount.
Substantial Savings with a Full festival pass: $55
http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/EventListings.action?orgId=17438
Box Office:
415.863.9834 (2-5 pm Wed-Sat)
THE ORGANIZATION:
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. 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.
SFEMF 2008 Steering Committee/Curators: Elise Baldwin, Matt Davignon,
Tom Duff, Christopher Fleeger, Dan Joseph, Kadet Kuhne, Jon Leidecker,
Kristin Miltner, Patrick Parnell, Patrice Scanlon and Pamela Z
Advisory Board: Mark Bartscher, John Bischoff, Krys Bobrowski, Lance
Grabmiller, Guillermo Gallindo, Steev Hise, Matt Ingalls, Dan Joseph,
Walter Kitundu, Miya Masaoka, Suki O'Kane, Ed Osborn, Sean Rooney,
Christopher Salter, Todd Shalom, Laetitia Sonami, Carl Stone
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