Second Part of New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2017– July 14 through 16 at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust

For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net New York, NY – The second part of The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) 2017 will take place July 14 through 16, with multiple events each day, at National Sawdust, 80 N. 6th Street in Brooklyn. NYCEMF 2017 will showcase electroacoustic music and video art from around the world. The festival will include presentations of surround-sound music in up to sixteen channels, works involving new and customized electronic music instruments, works combining musical instruments and voices with electronic sounds, video and multimedia works, and audio and video installations. Composers from Europe, the Americas, and Asia will be presented, representing the full international range of electroacoustic music, including works by Americans Maurice Wright, Alice Shields, Mark Zaki, Fred Szymanski, Orlando Garcia, Kirsten Volness, Eric Chasalow, Jeffrey Hass, Marc Ainger, and Christopher Cook, and from outside the U.S., Wuan-chin Li, Xin Biao, Gustavo Adolfo Delgado, Patricia Martinez, and Giorgio Nottoli. Performers will include Laura Venditti, saxophonist, Sam Kelder, violist, Wayla Chambo and Margaret Lancaster, flutists, Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinetist, Maja Cerar, violinist, and Madeleine Shapiro, cellist. Video artists presented will include Mark Zaki, Shalom Gorewitz, Maurice Wright, Marc Ainger, Ari Frankel, Patricia Martinez, and Jeffrey Hass. See a complete list of programs at http://www.nycemf.net/2017-festival/. Tickets and information for the 2017 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival events at National Sawdust are available at 646-779-8455 or https://nationalsawdust.org/. For public transit information, visit http://tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/tripplanner.aspx. All NYCEMF concerts are ADA accessible. Become a friend of NYCEMF at https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkCityElectroacousticMusicFestival. 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. NYCEMF 2017 is made possible, in part, with support from Genelec. All playback venues will feature Genelec speakers. Additional support comes from the Cary New Music Performance Fund. For photos and other press inquiries about NYCEMF, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net. ####