Sunday, September 18, 2022 7:30pm doors / 8:00pm show Tickets $17-25 (discounted or free for members) SFEMF 2022 Festival Pass $45 Get Tickets Now Masks required for entry
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is an artist-run organization founded in 1999 by eight local sound artists and musicians. 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. Recent festivals have featured performances by clipping, zoviet france, William Basinski, Dieter Moebius, Christian Marclay, and Maja Ratkje. For more info: sfemf.org.
Anne Hege creates musical worlds that invite an awareness of and attention to the body and our present moment. In her work as a composer, vocalist, conductor, instrument builder, and scholar, she explores the roots of musicality in the intersection of ensemble interaction, technology, embodiment, and expression. She is currently completing her first opera, The Furies, for laptop orchestra and live vocalists to premiere on Stanford's CCRMA Stage on Nov. 11-13, 2022, and is looking forward to the release of her first album of music for The Tape Machine in 2023 on INNOVA Records. annehege.com
Only Now is the vision of Kush Arora, based in Berkeley, CA. His sound is an unremitting emission of razor cut rhythms, primitive channeling, and ritualistic electronics. There is wild abandon in his approach; from seething Indian tribalism to cold fronts of ambience that highlight Arora’s ability to juggle disparate sonics. Active in the Bay Area since the late ‘90s, Kush produces in scenes ranging from noise to dancehall as with his recent “Indian Unclassical” series. Arora's work has been featured on the BBC and in The Wire, The Quietus, The Guardian, FACT, Resident Advisor, and Bandcamp Daily. onlynow.bandcamp.com
Rova Electric 6, the collaboration between Rova Saxophone Quartet and Unpopular Electronics (Gino Robair and Tom Djll) began when the groups shared a reverberant room at the 2010 Chapel of the Chimes summer solstice concert. Code-named Popular Tectonics, the sextet explores the liminal space between synthesizer tones and saxophone timbres—the reed instruments working with and against electronic amplification—to exploit the resonant characteristics of acoustic environments. Rova—Bruce Ackley (soprano sax), Steve Adams (alto sax) Larry Ochs (tenor sax) and Jon Raskin (baritone sax)—has released over forty albums and collaborated with a range of internationally renowned artists—Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, John Zorn and Terry Riley, to name a few. The ensemble celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2023. Gino Robair and Tom Djll are also members of Tender Buttons, a trio with pianist Tania Chen. rova.org ginorobair.com Tomdjll.com
