SFEMF announces dates and artists for its 22nd Annual Festival dedicated to groundbreaking electronic music. In a coproduction with The Lab and the support of the Italian Cultural Institute, SFEMF presents three nights of live electronic performances featuring a diverse cadre of internationally renowned and emerging creators. This year's lineup highlights local musicians and headliners from afar whose work ranges from operatic landscapes to ecosystems of noise, new visions of dub, and the space between instrument and art. The festival opens Friday, September 15th, at The Lab with bay area favorite Chris Brown, who will be remounting his 2001 work Branches for interactive computer and live improvisation with percussionist Willie Winant and cellist Ben Davis, Friday's performance will also include a set by bay area based artist, poet, and instrument maker Ava Koohbor exploring a silhouette as sound, as well as Roziht Eve’s sonic journey with one’s inner child. Saturday, September 16th, presents Sam Genovese's electronic operatic rituals as well as re:VOLT. from Los Angeles, comprisomg composers Jill Fraser and Peter Granader, who along with Shiro Fujioka and Thomas Klepper will adapt Morton Subotnick's seminal 1971 electronic work Sidewinder. The festival concludes on Sunday, September 17th, with Providence-based improviser and noise artist Bonnie Jones creating ecosystems of sound, followed by the Italian duo Bono / Burattini performing a dense, hypnotic transfixing collection of songs based upon the sole use of the Juno 60 synthesizer and the organic linear pulsating sound of a drum kit, and concluding with Canadian experimental composer/musician Fletcher Pratt weaving together musique concrete, dub, and rhythmic elements creating a rich, stereophonic tapestry.

FULL PROGRAM
Friday, Sept 15

8 pm at The Lab, 2948 16th St, San Francisco
Chris Brown with William Winant and Ben Davis, Roziht Eve, Ava Koohbor

Saturday, Sept 16

8 pm at The Lab, 2948 16th St, San Francisco
re:VOLT, Sam Genovese

Sunday, Sept 17

8 pm at The Lab, 2948 16th St, San Francisco
Fletcher Pratt, Bono / Burattini, Bonnie Jones

About SFEMF
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 spectrum 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.