Event

SFEMF 2008

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 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. Several of the performances will feature the SFSound Group, one of the Bay Area's premier ensembles for 20th century and 21st century contemporary.
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, sound designer/composer/author Akira Rabelais, an opera from CNMAT co-director Edmund Campion, oscilloscope-inspired audio-visual artist Ray Sweeten, electro-acoustic trombonist Monique Buzzart, 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.