In a coproduction with The Lab and Audium, and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Villa Albertine, SFEMF presents four nights of live electronic performances featuring a diverse cadre of internationally renowned and emerging creators. 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.