Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/09/2016
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
Brava Theater Center
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Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, composer and performer (born Dec. 29th 1973 in Trondheim, Norway), finished composition studies at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo in 2000. Her music is performed worldwide by performers such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Oslo Sinfonietta, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Fretwork, TM+, Cikada, Mivos and Bozzini string quartets, Quatuor Renoir, crashEnsemble, Pearls for Swine Experience, Torben Snekkestad, Marianne Beate Kielland, SPUNK, Frode Haltli, POING and many more. Portrait concerts with her music has been heard in Toronto and Vienna, she has been composer in residence at festivals like Other Minds in San Francisco, Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, Nordland Music Festival in Bodø, Avanti! Summer Festival in Finland, Båstad Chamber Music Festival and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Moor Mother | Camae Ayewa is a Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artist. A musician performing under the name Moor Mother, she has toured in Europe and the U.S. and has performed at festivals, colleges, and universities, sharing the stage with King Britt, Islam Chipsy, Bell Hooks, Claudia Rankine and more. A soundscape artist with work featured at Samek Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art Chicago, Everson Museum of Art, OCAD Toronto, and New College FLA, Camae is also a singer in the punk band The Mighty Paradocs. Camae is a 2016 Leeway Foundation LTG & 2005 ACG grantee. She is also co-founder of Rockers! Philly, a 10-year-running series focused on marginalized artists. Camae serves on the board of Girls Rock Philly, and is assistant coordinator of The Afrofuturist Affair, Philadelphia’s premiere afrofuturism organization. She is also author of the forthcoming poetry book Fetish Bones and is an avid zinemaker and collector.
Irene Moon | Since 1997, Irene Moon has been presenting musical lectures, films, musical recordings, and theater about insects and other arthropods in an attempt to elevate Entomology (the study of insects) as a rock genre. Irene Moon (a.k.a Dr. Katja C. Seltmann, PhD) is presently the Director of the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration at the University of California Santa Barbara, and a researcher for ten plus years in entomology and data science. She brings the aesthetics from the entomology laboratory in front of alternative audiences (principally art galleries and music venues), in the form of absurd but truly factual performances inspired by insects and her research. Playing upon many of our deep fears and stereotypes about insects, she reconfigures them exposing the factual roots (and misinterpretations) of these myths.
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.