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title: San Francisco Electronic Music Festival | Circuit Network
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# SF Electronic Music Festival

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###### Save the Dates

### 25th Anniversary Season

** **

** At SFPL's Koret Auditorium **

> ###### August 11, 2026
> 
> History of SFEMF Program

** At Gray Area **

> ###### August 22, 2026
> 
> Season Launch Benefit Concert

** At The Lab **

> ###### September 24-26, 2026
> 
> 25th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

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Since the first festival in 2000, SFEMF has presented works that span the sonic spectra 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.Each festival features artists working in a variety of modes including:

- laptop-generated sound,
- processed live acoustic instruments,
- amplified found objects,
- projected video,
- improvisation, and performance art. 

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 and beyond. Designed as an annual multi-day event consisting of concerts and installations, the primary focus is on independent artists whose innovative aesthetics challenge academic and commercial standards.

The Committee’s goals are long-term:

- to foster a greater sense of community among a diverse group of 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. 

Circuit Network has served as the fiscal sponsor and producer of SFEMF since 2007, and Circuit’s director Elisabeth Beaird is a voting member of the SFEMF Steering Committee.

[Official Website](http://www.sfemf.org)

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Evicshen (Victoria Shen) performs at the 23rd Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival at The Lab on September 20, 2024

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Sam Genovese's set at the 22nd Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival at The Lab on September 16, 2023

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Bologna-based Bono/Burattini, whose appearance at the 22nd Annual San Francisco Music Festival was supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, performed at The Lab on September 17, 2023

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###### April 11, 2026

##### Night of Ideas

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###### 25th Anniversary Season

##### SFEMF

](https://www.circuitnetwork.com/projects/san-francisco-electronic-music-festival)