Soundwave Festival (San Francisco) Explained

Soundwave Biennial Festival
Location:San Francisco, California
Years Active:2004-present
Founders:MEDIATE Art Group
Dates:Every two years for two months
Genre:Electronic music, art
Website:Soundwave Festival site

Soundwave Biennial Festival (formerly called the Soundwave Series) is a sound, art, and music festival that happens every two years for two months in San Francisco.[1]

Overview

Soundwave is produced by the 501(c)3 non-profit Mediate Art Group. The festival features diverse local and international multimedia artists working with sound including noise artists, sound artists, improvisers, experimental musicians, composers, avant-garde musicians, vocalists, electroacoustic musicians, classical musicians and rock musicians. The festival focuses on new and unusual performances and art works, often in untraditional environments. Soundwave primarily showcases "sound art," but also explores disciplines such as media art, performance art, music, dance, and installation.

Artists

Soundwave created the well-received[2] [3] AudioBus series conceived by Soundwave founder and artistic director Alan So for its third season MOVE SOUND in 2008.[4] It featured Bay Area singer Goh Nakamura,[3] [5] avant-cellist Zoe Keating,[2] Odessa Chen and [ruidobello] and David Graves.[6]

Other noted artists and musicians that have created performances at Soundwave include:Moe! Staiano (Moe!Kestra!), Andrea Polli, Matt Davignon, Diana Burgoyne, (Rob Reger (Beno+Minnie with Aimee Friberg), Dana Gumbiner (of Deathray under electronic name Night Night), Danny Grody (of Tarentel performing with band The Drift) and Neal Morgan (of Joanna Newsom's Y Street Band and Golden Shoulders)

Soundwave was awarded "Best Sound Sculptures – Future Classic" by the editors of San Francisco Magazine in their Best of 2007 issue[7] while being compared to San Francisco's Audium (Theater).

Soundwave seasons

Soundwave has had eight seasons: FREE SOUND 2004, SURROUND SOUND 2006 (curator and show featured by SPARK* on KQED-PBS),[8] MOVE SOUND 2008[9] [1] which included amplified skateboarding,[10] sound drawing,[11] holographic movies.[12] ME'DI.ATE's fourth Soundwave season GREEN SOUND 2010 included performances in historic WWII Bunkers,[13] churches,[14] city streets and parks, and an artist-imagined environment Illuminated Forest.[15] Its fifth season Soundwave HUMANITIES 2012 has been called epic, glorious and with distinct and daring artists. Season six explored WATER in 2014 in the midst of a California drought. The seventh season ARCHITECTURE[16] occurred in 2016 exploring the rapid transformation of San Francisco's changing cityscapes and its implications. Its eight season in 2018 is INFRASTRUCTURE exploring Bay Area and global networks provoking ideas around isolation amid interconnectivity; environmental degradation and mass consumption of electronics; the politics of energy infrastructures, fossil fuels and renewables; the movement of goods and services across roads, bridges, railways, channels and ports; the often invisible protocols that affect our daily lives.

Locations

Soundwave events have occurred in galleries, museums, and unusual and iconic locations in and around San Francisco. They have included:

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Move > Sound: Soundwave > Series 3 @ Various locations . Flavorpill.com . 27 June 2008 . 20 October 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111003093015/http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco/events/2008/6/27/move-sound-sound-wave-series-3 . 3 October 2011.
  2. Web site: Twitter Goddess Zoe Keating Blows People's Minds, With A Cello, On A Bus . Synthtopia . 24 November 2009 . 20 October 2011.
  3. Web site: The Audiobus: One of those rare 'life doesn't get any better than this' moments . Academik . 20 July 2008 . 20 October 2011.
  4. Web site: Jennifer Maerz . Soundwave's AudioBus series offers road trips with local composers – Page 1 – Music . SF Weekly . 2 July 2008 . 20 October 2011.
  5. Web site: Mac . Vicki . Goh on the Bus: SF Troubadour Takes Show on the Road . Asianweek.com . 29 July 2008 . 20 October 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110629121905/http://www.asianweek.com/2008/07/28/goh-on-the-bus-sf-troubadour-takes-show-on-the-road/ . 29 June 2011.
  6. Web site: Photo: Katy Raddatz / The Chronicle . Sound artist David Graves (pictured – Media (1 of 1) 'Resonance' and AudioBus: Experience sound . San Francisco Chronicle . 20 October 2011.
  7. Web site: NEWS . Mediate . 15 August 2007 . 20 October 2011.
  8. Web site: Matt Davignon: Spark . KQED . 14 October 2011 . 20 October 2011.
  9. Web site: Soundwave>Series ((3)) Takes Place June 27 to August 17 : The Bay Bridged – San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music . Thebaybridged.com . 23 June 2008 . 20 October 2011.
  10. Web site: Silke Tudor . The Grindermen – Page 1 – Calendar . SF Weekly . 25 June 2008 . 20 October 2011.
  11. Web site: Maxwell . Leanne . Soundwave>Series 3: EnviroSonic Tonight . SFist . 27 June 2008 . 20 October 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111001192921/http://sfist.com/2008/06/27/soundwaveseries_3_envirosonic.php . 1 October 2011 . dmy-all .
  12. http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/blog/2008/08/hologlyphic-movies-at-projectsoundwave-series-berkeley-ca-080108/
  13. Web site: Soundwave Festival: Music . KQED . 20 October 2011.
  14. Web site: Michael Leaverton . Sounding Good – Page 1 – Calendar . SF Weekly . 2 June 2010 . 20 October 2011.
  15. Web site: SF Artists Explore What 'Green' Sounds Like . TreeHugger . 20 October 2011.
  16. Web site: Zaldua. Chris. At Soundwave, Listening to a Changing Cityscape. kqed.org. KQED. 31 December 2017.
  17. Web site: Escobar. Claudia. Sacred Voyage: When 'Soundwave' First Came to the Grace Cathedral. kqed.org. KQED. 31 December 2017.
  18. Web site: Swanson. Charlie. Waves of Sound. www.bohemian.com. North Bay Bohemian. 31 December 2017.
  19. Web site: sperry. rod. Music and meditation go hand in hand at San Francisco Zen Center. www.lionsroar.com. Lion's Roar. 31 December 2017. 19 October 2012.
  20. Web site: Inflorescence. Project>Soundwave. MEDIATE.

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