In a coproduction with The Lab and Audium, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival presents four nights of live electronic performances featuring a diverse cadre of internationally renowned and emerging creators. The work ranges from explorations of brainwaves, intricate piano etudes with an electronic twist, and late night SF-inspired musique concrete, to enhanced human bodies as extended instruments. This year’s festival begins Thursday, September 19th, at Audium Theater of Sound with three unique works of spatial sound art composed specifically for Audium’s 176 surround speakers. The festival opens with Sally Decker and Brendan Glasson, who delve into the qualities and trajectories of movement through sound. This work is followed by Ronald Peabody’s AFRICALIEN, using brainwaves to guide an immersive exploration of beauty in confusion. The night concludes with Danishta Rivero’s Heretical Voicings bathing the audience in Rivero’s live heavily processed voice. Friday, September 20th, SFEMF moves to The Lab for the remainder of the festival, opening with Amanda Chaudhary and her visually stunning interdisciplinary electronic work, followed by Pedestrian Deposit‘s genre-busting visceral narratives, and concluding with Evicshen’s thrilling journey of noise, sampling, synthesis, and live processing. Saturday begins with Julie Herndon’s beautifully intimate Electronic Etudes for acoustic piano and live electronic processing. Sholeh Asgary continues with her future mythological excavations in movement, light, voice, and sound. Saturday closes with Valerio Tricoli’s stunning intricate and evolving textures inspired by a late-night stoned dice game. The festival concludes Sunday with Dustin Wong’s creation of benevolent chaos through live-looping, followed by Briana Marela’s experimental pop with enhanced electronic objects, and concludes with Eddie Ruscha sounding the unpredictable.