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.

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 operates under the Fiscal Sponsorship of The LAB/art.re.grup in San Francisco, CA.  The LAB is an official 501(c) (3) non-profit group and has been associated with the festival since its inception in 1999.

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SFEMF Programming:

The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is programmed by curatorial committee from a pool of suggestions and nominations. We regret that we are unable to review unsolicited promo packages and support materials at this time.

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SFEMF 2008 Steering Committee/Curators: Elise Baldwin, Matt Davignon, Tom Duff, Christopher Fleeger, Kadet Kuhne, Jon Leidecker, Kristin Miltner, Suki O’Kane, Patrick Parnell, Patrice Scanlon, Pamela Z

Founding (1999) Steering Committee: Miya Masaoka, Pamela Z, Steev Hise, Dan Joseph, Ed Osborn, Christopher Salter, Carl Stone, Donald Swearingen

SFEMF Fiscal: Circuit Network

OUR 2007 SUPPORTERS:

The San Francisco Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation, American Composer's Forum Subito Program, Meet the Composer

Subwoofers: Anonymous, Margaret Dorfman, John Lee, Patrice Scanlon

Woofers: Robert Abra, Anonymous, Elise Baldwin, Matt Davignon, Patrick Parnell, Richard Pinegar, Pamela Z

Tweeters: Brenda Hutchinson, Elise Kermani

SFEMF Membership:

You can become a member of SFEMF by sending us a check to support the festival. For details visit this link.