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 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 and installations, the primary focus is on independent artists whose innovative aesthetics challenge academic and commercial standards.
The Committee’s goals are long-term:
- to foster a greater sense of community among a diverse group of 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.
Circuit Network has served as the fiscal sponsor and producer of SFEMF since 2007, and Circuit’s director Elisabeth Beaird is a voting member of the SFEMF Steering Committee.
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