Friday, September 12, 2014

The 15th Annual SF Electronic Music Festival

For the past 15 years, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF) has brought internationally acclaimed musicians to the Bay Area, becoming the premiere festival dedicated to the genre. The festival began last night at the Exploratorium with the Kanbar Forum, David Dunn, Headboggle + Caitlin Denny, and continues from September 12th–14th. SFEMF will present artists working with analog synthesizers, home-brewed electronics, laptop-generated sound, processed live acoustic instruments, amplified found objects, projected video, improvisation, and performance art. This year’s festival opens at the Exploratorium with field recording maverick David Dunn and antic keyboardist Head Boggle with live visuals by Caitlin Denny.


Interested in site-specific interactions and research-oriented activities, David Dunn creates a new view of the environmental world through music. He has received over 35 grants and fellowships for both artistic and scientific research, including the Alpert Award (2005), the Henry Cowell Award from the American Music Center (2007), and, most recently, an Artist Award Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2013).


Derek Gedalecia, a.k.a. Head Boggle, creates electronic keyboard-based soundscapes that blend lowbrow and highbrow art, music, and comedy into an ecstatic improvisational style with carefully crafted musical support. For his Opening Night performance, Head Boggle will collaborate with Caitlin Denny, a video artist and curator concentrating on performative technologies and interactive creation.


The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is an artist-run organization presenting works that span the sonic spectra by participants ranging from emerging artists to respected pioneers of the field.









Friday, September 12th 8pm

BRAVA THEATER CENTER

Aki Onda
, Joker Nies
, Sarah Davachi

Saturday, September 13th 8pm

BRAVA THEATER CENTER

:zoviet*France:
, Christina Stanley
, Xo Xinh

Sunday, September 14th 8pm

BRAVA THEATER CENTER

Nicolas Collins
, Ezra Buchla
, Julia Mazawa

Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets