[NewMusicEvents] San Francisco Electronic Music Festival Sept. 5-9

[Matt Davignon]

SFEMF 8
September 5-9
Project Artaud Theater
450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

The 2007 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival consists of five
evenings of electrifying performances by internationally recognized
composers 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.

This year SFEMF is honored to present two renowned, New York-based,
electronic music pioneers composers, Annea Lockwood and David Behrman–
both of whom will be performing on Saturday evening, September 8th.
Lockwood will be presenting the West Coast premiere of a work called
"Jitterbug (2007) involving 6 channels of audio and three performers
(herself, Behrman, and bay area percussionist William Winant.) She
will also be presenting "Bow Falls", with 2-channel sound and video by
Paul Ryan. Behrman will present "Long Throw" (2007) with the composer
on stringed instruments & computer and William Winant on percussion.
This is also a West Coast premiere.

This year's international participants include Canadian Musician and
Sound artist Tim Hecker, who appears on Thursday's concert, and two
Mexican artists: Murcof (Nortek Collective), and the duo .pig, who
will kicking off the 2007 festival on Wednesday, September 5th in a
special evening sponsored by San Francisco's NEXMAP– a new San
Francisco non-profit organization dedicated to the production and
appreciation of contemporary and experimental performing arts. And
from Los Angeles, SFEMF presents Letiecia Castaneda and Univac.

This year's local artists include flutist/composer/"aspiring rock
star" MaryClare Brzytwa, electro-cellist Zoe Keating, media artist
Kadet Kuhne (collaborating with Mem1), award-winning laptop composer
Lesser, renowned ballet & modern dance composer Les Stuck, and the
inimitable Fred Frith, who will be presenting an SFEMF-commissioned
collaboration with Patrice Scanlon.

Schedule:

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
doors 8pm, show 8:30pm
(sponsored by NexMap)
    Murcof
    .pig

Thursday, September 6th, 2007
doors 8pm, show 8:30pm
    Tim Hecker
    univac
    MaryClare Brzytwa

Friday, September 7th, 2007 (buy tickets)
doors 8pm, show 8:30pm
    Lesser
    Les Stuck
    Zoe Keating
    Leticia Castaneda

Saturday, September 8th, 2007
doors 8pm, show 8:30pm
    David Behrman &
    Annea Lockwood
    with William Winant
   (solos and in collaboration)
   Behrman and Lockwood will have an informal Q& A at 7pm.

Sunday, September 9th, 2007
early start time: doors 7pm, show 7:30pm
    Fred Frith (with Patrice Scanlon)
    Kadet Kuhne (with Mem1)
    Nommo Ogo

All nights: Sound installations by local artists.

Tickets:
$16 general, $12 Senior/Student
$55 Festival pass, $45 Senior/Student Festival Pass