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San Francisco
Electronic Music Festival 2006

August 10, 2006 - August 13, 2006
SomArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street, San Francisco
Doors at 8PM, performance at 8:30 PM

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The 2006 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival consists of four evenings of electrifying performances by internationally recognized artists and musicians in the electronic music field. This year’s impressive line-up features both respected pioneers and emerging artists whose work spans the sonic spectra -- from ambient to rhythmic, from atonal to melodic. As the only San Francisco music festival dedicated solely to electronic music, the SFEMF brings together the varied practices of artists working with laptop generated sound, processed live acoustic instruments, amplified found objects, projected video, improvisation, and performance art.

For this year's festival, SFEMF has invited a wide-ranging field of artists from across the globe, including the United Kingdom's audiovisual duo Semi-Conductor (in a late-night performance on Saturday at Recombinant Media Labs); Norwegian duo Alog (in their first North American performance); Mexico City-based sound artist Manuel Rocha; Los Angeles-based James Tenney whose piece will feature a performance by percussionist Willie Winant; Montreal-based automaton builder Maxime De La Rochefoucauld; New York-based voice and computer musician Dafna Naphtali; and Los Angeles-based lowercase music pioneer Steve Roden, who will present a piece based on Nam June Paik's "primitive music" sculpture. SFEMF 2006's local artists include composer/intermedia artist Elise Baldwin, long tube performer Brenda Hutchinson, multimedia artist Barbara Golden, experimental drum machinist Matt Davignon, sonic explorer Joe Colley and electro-acoustic trio shudder.

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 greatersense 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.