Gray Area Grand Theater: 24th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

For our 24th annual festival, SFEMF presents three nights of live electronic performances featuring a diverse cadre of internationally renowned and emerging creators.

Friday, November 7
GET FRIDAY TICKETS https://tickets.grayarea.org/events/11d5b241-c0a4-beda-62b6-503c1ebfa7e1
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.

Saturday, November 8
GET SATURDAY TICKETS https://tickets.grayarea.org/events/019997c2-efb8-7557-c6ba-6e24fad99850
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.

Sunday, November 9
GET SUNDAY TICKETS https://tickets.grayarea.org/events/019997c3-feb9-b923-8b5d-5d6094eee114
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.