24th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

24th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival Doors: 7:30PM Performance: 8PM – 10:30PM View our FAQ page for more info, or contact us at [email protected] with any accommodation requests. Doors: 7:30PM Performance: 8PM – 10:30PM All ages Seated Performance New this year, SFEMF is holding its annual festival November 7-9 at the Gray Area Grand Theater in San Francisco. The festival begins on Friday, November 7, with Leyya Mona Tawil (also known as Lime Rickey International), who brings her embodied, interdisciplinary approach, creating a musical performance that incorporates sound objects, physical effects, and disappearing words. The artist DULL follows, combining instrumental mastery with live electronics, while balancing lab-coat meticulousness with a punk attitude. Friday night concludes with Angélica Negrón performing live electronics, incorporating her love of drag, comedy, and the natural world into her set. Doors: 7:30PM Performance: 8PM – 10:30PM All ages Seated Performance Saturday, November 8, opens with Celia Hollander combining acoustic and digital elements, exploring music as a natural phenomenon of dynamic systems. "Audiovisual sorceress," Freida Abtan follows, weaving together acousmatic composition with more industrial and pop-influenced experimental anthems. Saturday’s lineup closes with Julien Bayle performing super.system, a live performance uniting sound and image through real-time generative composition that is a living, mutable work where intention meets entropy. Doors: 7:30PM Performance: 8PM – 10:30PM All ages Seated Performance The festival wraps up Sunday, November 9, with S’hells Gate, a three-piece outfit comprising members Jonathan Carr, Matt Brownell, and Cat Lauigan, who fuse elements of arpeggiated electronics, experimental poetry / processed trance vocals, oscillating hypnotic drones, and industrial dub rhythms. Lauren Sarah Hayes follows, exploring instability, vulnerability, and unpredictability through improvisation with her hybrid analogue-digital live electronics performance system, a form of embodied machine intelligence. With punk/metal roots, DADABOTS close the festival using machine-learning as an extreme way to make sound and eliminate humans from music. Leyya Mona Tawil, also known as Lime Rickey International, is an artist, curator, and cultural activist. She works in dance, sound art and hybrid performance practices. Tawil is Syrian and Palestinian, engaged in the world as such. Her works have toured extensively throughout Europe, the Arab region, and the states. Recent highlights include sound projects at the Sibelius Museum (Turku-FI) and Play House Labs (Detroit), and a Rainin Foundation NEW grant for a new choreography. She is the founding director of experimental arts platform Arab.AMP, and has stewarded TAC Temescal Art Center in Oakland since 1997. DULL was born and raised somewhere in the northern hemisphere. He studied classical piano, played in indie rock bands, and composed chamber works that have been performed at major festivals across four continents. He also has an extensive background in computer music, both as an artist and a coder. His latest major work is an album of highly unconventional songs, set to be released soon. His rare live performances weave together all these threads, combining instrumental mastery with live electronics, blending improvisation with careful planning, balancing lab-coat meticulousness with a punk attitude, and sometimes even featuring his singing. Angélica Negrón is a Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist known for blending classical and electronic music with unexpected instruments, toys, and found sounds. Upcoming premieres include a cello concerto for Yo-Yo Ma with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, and a requiem for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She has written works for Opera Philadelphia, New York Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, and made her Carnegie Hall debut with Sō Percussion. A Hermitage Greenfield Prize recipient and Lincoln Center Collider Fellow, she also composes for film, performs solo, and co-founded the electronic band Balún. Angélica lives in Brooklyn, where she’s always looking for ways to incorporate her love of drag, comedy, and the natural world into her work. Celia Hollander is a Los Angeles-based composer, producer and performer. Combining acoustic and digital elements, her work focuses on themes such as shaping time through composition, surrendering to improvisation, and music as a natural phenomenon of dynamic systems. Her discography features releases on Leaving Records, Longform Editions, Recital and Noumenal Loom, and she has performed at venues including 2220 Arts & Archives (LA), Public Records (NYC), Grace Cathedral (SF), Basilica Hudson (NY) and Bond Chapel (CHI). She has taught at the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts, and she has created original scores and sound design for film,