The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival is dedicated to bringing the finest electroacoustic music from all over the world to New York City, through annual, multi-day festivals in a variety of venues. The festival is designed to expose audiences to current trends in electroacoustic music, to support the innovative nature of the field and to celebrate its music. With participants coming from all over the world, the festival also serves to provide a time and place for composers, performers and engineers to gather, exchange ideas and share their works.
The third New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) will take place April 2–6, 2013, once again bringing to New York audiences a vibrant panorama of the most recent trends of electroacoustic music. This year, the festival will consist of 21 concerts, taking place at various venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn—including the CUNY Graduate Center, New York University, Galapagos Art Space, and ShapeShifter Lab.
Highlighting the diverse nature of electroacoustic music today, the festival will encompass all kinds of music and instruments involving electronics, ranging in style from contemporary classical and abstract sound art to noise music, IDM variants, and more. Concerts will include works combining acoustic instruments and electronics, works for electronics alone, videos and electroacoustic music for dance. A number of sound installations will be running throughout the festival. All works will be diffused over multi-channel, state-of-the-art sound systems. This year's program will feature a unique, international selection of more than 150 outstanding works. Concerts will present the most recent creations of both emerging and established composers from five continents, and a world-class roster of distinguished performers—including the performance of a complete program of recent works for cello and electronics by internationally acclaimed cellist, Madeleine Shapiro.
Learn More: http://www.nycemf.org