Soundwave Festival (San Francisco)
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Soundwave Festival is a sound, art, and music festival that happens every two years for two months in San Francisco.
musicians, classical musicians and rock musicians. The festival focuses on new and unusual performances and art works, often in untraditional environments.
, Odessa Chen and [ruidobello] and David Graves.
Other noted artists and musicians that have created performances at Soundwave include:
Moe! Staiano
(Moe!Kestra!), Andrea Polli, Matt Davignon, Diana Burgoyne, (Rob Reger (Beno+Minnie with Aimee Friberg), Dana Gumbiner (of Deathray
under electronic name Night Night), Danny Grody (of Tarentel
performing with band The Drift) and Neal Morgan (of Joanna Newsom
's Y Street Band and Golden Shoulders
)
Soundwave was awarded "Best Sound Sculptures – Future Classic" by the editors of San Francisco Magazine in their Best of 2007 issue while being compared to San Francisco's Audium (Theater)
.
Overview
Soundwave is produced by ME'DI.ATE Art Group. The festival features diverse local and international multimedia artists working with sound including noise artists, sound artists, improvisers, experimental musicians, composers, avant-garde musicians, vocalists, electroacousticElectroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...
musicians, classical musicians and rock musicians. The festival focuses on new and unusual performances and art works, often in untraditional environments.
Artists
Soundwave created the well-received AudioBus series conceived by Soundwave founder and artistic director Alan So for its third season MOVE SOUND in 2008. It featured Bay Area singer Goh Nakamura, avant-cellist Zoe KeatingZoë Keating
Zoë Keating is a Canadian-born cellist and composer based in San Francisco, California.In her solo performances and recordings , she uses live electronic sampling and repetition in order to layer the sound of her cello, creating rhythmically dense musical structures...
, Odessa Chen and [ruidobello] and David Graves.
Other noted artists and musicians that have created performances at Soundwave include:
Moe! Staiano
Moe! Staiano
Moe Staiano is an American experimental drummer/percussionist and composer who works in a variety of found sounds and prepared trap set as well as massive orchestra conductions of his own scored compositions.-His style:Mainly an improviser in a solo performance setting, Moe! Staiano Moe Staiano...
(Moe!Kestra!), Andrea Polli, Matt Davignon, Diana Burgoyne, (Rob Reger (Beno+Minnie with Aimee Friberg), Dana Gumbiner (of Deathray
Deathray
Deathray was a band from Sacramento, California formed by former Cake members Greg Brown and Victor Damiani, and Dana Gumbiner, a musician formerly of the Sacramento indie band Little Guilt Shrine....
under electronic name Night Night), Danny Grody (of Tarentel
Tarentel
Tarentel may refer to:* Tarantella, a traditional Italian dance* Tarentel , an American post-rock group...
performing with band The Drift) and Neal Morgan (of Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
's Y Street Band and Golden Shoulders
Golden Shoulders
Golden Shoulders is a band from Nevada City, California. Formed in 2001 by songwriter Adam Kline, the group operates with a rotating lineup and has featured significant contributions from such notables as Joanna Newsom, who sang and played piano on the first Golden Shoulders album, Let My Burden...
)
Soundwave was awarded "Best Sound Sculptures – Future Classic" by the editors of San Francisco Magazine in their Best of 2007 issue while being compared to San Francisco's Audium (Theater)
Audium (theater)
Audium is a unique sound art phenomenon that has been presented weekly in San Francisco since 1967. Audium is a creation of composer Stan Shaff that is performed on original equipment designed by Doug McEachern...
.