electro-music 2007 (TM), a three day conference/music festival will be held at the Cheltenham Art Center in Philadelphia, June 1 – 3, 2007. The program will include lectures, demos, jam sessions, and concerts. The scope of this festival is very broad, covering all aspects of electro-music, experimental electronic music, including circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, noodles (generated or automatic music and algorithmic composition), multi-media, visual art and much more. The focus will be on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music.

Here’s a short film about the electro-music festival 2006.
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The majority of the activities at electro-music 2007(TM) will be contributions of members of electro-music.com, an international community of composers and musicians that share a passion for electro-music.

The following artists and presenters will be participating at electro-music 2007.

Talks/seminars:
Jonathan Block Traveling Lightly: Making Music with One Synth
Steve Bowman “Compose This” symposium
Seth Brown The Telharmonium
Stuart Diamond The Psychology of Electronic Wind Playing
Jeffery Ertz Project Pulse
Roland Kuit Video Synthesis
Rebecca Mercuri Your Mind and Music
Howard Moscovitz keynote
Thomas Patteson Francois Bayle’s Musique Acousmatique
Vic Rek The Ricochet Gathering
Kip Rosser Serenity, Power and Love – A Theremin Triad
Doctor T (Emile Tobenfeld) Beyond the Light Show
Agnes Wajdyk Into the Mirror and Out of the Synthesizer
Ge Wang and Rebecca Fiebrink Introduction to ChucK and Livecoding

Musical performances:
Ambiguous Nouns
Available Space (Art Cohen and Steve Bowman)
Astrogenic Hallucinauting
Lynn Bechtold
The Bemus Point
John Boehr and Jack Tamul
Brainstatik
Graham Coleman
Electric Diamond
Fluorescent Grey
Fringe Element
FULCRUM
gEars
Gemini
I Eat Zeroes and Ones
Immersions
Mark Jenkins
Kevin Kissinger
Roland Kuit and Matty Ross
Mahoney and Peck
Mayakara
Kurt Michaels
Margaret Noble
phog masheeen
PLOrk Beat Science
Project Ruori
Bradford Reed
Jonathan Block
the reverend mofo
Kip Rosser
Scant Intone
Warren Sirota
Spinning Plates
Spiral of Silence
State Machine
Velva
Vostek
Vytear
xeroid entity

Video Artists:
Azimuth Visuals
Dreamdaze
Greg Golda
Roland Kuit
Ombient
Project Ruori
Tim Thompson
Doctor T (Emile Tobenfeld)
Cliff Winton

Demonstrations, Workshops, and Installations:
Mark Jenkins “Analog Synthesizers” book signing
Bradford Reed The Pencilina
Project Ruori “Lightflowers” installation
Warren Sirota Evolution and Intervention
Tim Thompson “Finger Fresco” sound and graphics installation
Doctor T (Emile Tobenfeld) Beyond the Light Show – Compositional Strategies for Structured Improvisation in Visual Music
Ge Wang and Rebecca Fiebrink ChucK Programming Language workshop

electro-music.com is a place where artists and musicians meet, collaborate, support each other, sell CDs, and nurture their audiences. The community exists to create its own critical mass; to enable its members to develop music on their own terms. Electro-music is new music; still undefined; happening all over our planet. Electro-music is the natural result of techno/social trends: the availability of low-cost powerful electronic music technology, and the communication revolution enabled by the internet. Electro-music is not defined by a particular style or sound, but by its primary motivation being the joy of creation, and the love of electronic sounds. It can be slow and spacey, or fast and rhythmic; it crosses many genres.

The Cheltenham Art Center is an ideal facility for a multi-day event like this. It is a beautiful building with a relaxed and informal ambience, located in a secluded wooded section of Philadelphia. We’ll have two excellent concert venues and additional rooms for our activities during the full three days. The Art Center is accessible by public transportation (bus and train) from central Philadelphia.

Philadelphia is a great historic American city with a rich cultural heritage and a very active electro-music scene. Philly has an excellent international airport and abundant accommodations. It is a wonderful cultural/tourist destination in its own right, and is situated between two others, New York City, and the Baltimore – Washington, DC area. Many people will want to combine electro-music 2007 with a tour of the eastern United States.

electro-music 2007 will build on the success of the previous electro-music events in 2005 and 2006. The participants at those events felt it was a ground-breaking and inspirational experience.Many of the artists who were at the earlier events are returning this year, and there are also some interesting and talented newcomers.

If you have questions you may contact the organizers at event[at]electro-music.com