Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/10/2016
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
Brava Theater Center
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David Lee Myers (a.k..a Arcane Device) is a sound and visual artist living in New York City. He has produced music based on feedback principles since 1987, using his unique “feedback machines.” Myers has had thirty recordings released by Generator, Recommended, Line, Silent, Pogus, RRRecords, Staalplaat, Monochrome Vision, and many other labels. Collaborations have been produced with Gen Ken Montgomery, Thomas Dimuzio, Ellen Band, guitarist Marco Oppedisano, and Dirk Serries (VidnaObmana). He created two albums with legendary electronic pioneer Tod Dockstader, and has released four projects with Hamburg’s master sound manipulator Asmus Tietchens, with a fifth in progress. Myers has performed at New York’s Generator, The Kitchen, Roulette, Experimental Media Foundation, the Knitting Factory, Clocktower, MoMA/PS1, and Silent Barn, as well as the Boston Museum of Modern Art and Gallerie Abriss (Hamburg) and the Klang Avantgarde Music Festival (Copenhagen), among others.
Thea Farhadian is a performer/composer based in San Francisco Bay Area and Berlin. Her projects include solo violin and interactive electronics, acoustic improvisation, solo laptop, radio art, and video. Her solo pieces for violin and electronics combine a classical music background with extended technique and digital processing using Max/MSP. Her work has been seen internationally at venues including the Issue Project Room and Alternative Museum in New York City, Galerie Mario Mazolli, Sowieso, and Quiet Cue in Berlin, the Room Series and Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, the Center for Experimental Art and the Aram Kachaturyan Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, and International Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room Project at Bimhaus in Amsterdam. Thea is a former member of the Berkeley Symphony orchestra where she played under Kent Nagano for ten years. She has an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State and an M.F.A. in Electronic Music from Mills College.
Alessandro Bosetti (Milano, Italy) is a composer, performer and sound artist whose works delve into the musicality of spoken language, utilizing misunderstandings, translations and interviews as compositional tools. His works for voice and electronics blur the line between electro-acoustic composition, aural writing and performance. One of the most innovative radio artists of his generation, he has created a vast body of work of hybrid, award winning, text-sound and radio compositions for the main radio and electro-acoustic studios in Europe such as WDR, Deutschland Radio Kultur, Radio France, ABC Australia, ORF, GRM/Presences Electroniques. Current projects include the abstract polyphony dispositive Plane/Talea, The Notebooks—based on Leos Janacek speech melodies archives, the monophonic extravaganzas Mini and Maxigolf with Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, Trophies—a powerful speech-loop trio with drummer Tony Buck and fretless guitarist Kenta Naga, and Mask Mirror—an instrument and software that reorganizes speech for musical purposes enacting a form of electronic ventriloquism.
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.