electro-music festival June 1-3 Philadelphia

[Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us>]

Greetings,

I'm forwarding this for a friend.  Looping, analog synths, electronic 
music, and all manner of fun is included.

Cheers,

Bill

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Advance Notice Release
Electro-Music Festival 2007

Friday through Sunday Cheltenham Art Center
June 1,2,3, 2007
439 Ashburne Road
12 Noon – 12 Midnight Cheltenham, PA

Tickets from $20 - $60
Information & Ticket Purchase: event.electro-music.com

CONTACT: Kip Rosser, Publicity
Email: kr@performancekr.com
Phone: 215-428-0387

2007 ELECTRO-MUSIC FESTIVAL IS POWERING UP!

Get ready for ELECTRO-MUSIC 2007! - hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer 
as “The Woodstock of electronic music” Electro-Music is the largest 
festival of its kind in the country. Over the course of three days 
festival participants and audiences will be treated to 40 separate 
concerts and over a dozen seminar/demonstrations. In the Cheltenham Art 
Center’s two galleries and on the main stage, over thirty-six hours of 
music performances by some of today’s most innovative composers and 
musicians will be featured for festival audiences as well as being 
streamed live throughout America, Europe and Australia.

Sequencers, synths, and samplers; vocoders, delay modellers, ring 
modulators, theremins and emulators. They may all sound like alien 
weapons out of a Sci-Fi film, but they are here and now, and they’re 
responsible for making some of the most compelling, innovative music 
available to audiences today.

It’s a surprising success story: festival founders Howard Moscovitz and 
Greg Waltzer began with an idea that became an enormously popular 
website (1.6 million page views per month!) that became a worldwide 
electronic music community that became an annual festival. 
“Electro-Music is a new musical movement based on the availability of 
very high-tech electronic and computer musical instruments that until 
just recently were way too expensive for someone to own. And now just 
about anyone can own one, with the result that people all over the world 
are experimenting with these instruments and new kinds of music. You now 
find serious composers and even kids in junior high school who are 
making music and know all about musical innovators like Schoenberg and 
Ligeti, plus they’re into rock and hip hop. They’re mixing all these 
different styles and coming up with amazing stuff. Electro-Music is the 
place to hear it.”

Undeniably the most unique aspect of the Electro-Music Festival is its 
emphasis on community. Where other festivals are more commonly a venue 
for paying audiences to see a lineup of booked performers, Electro-Music 
is an artist-driven event. The performers and participants contribute to 
the festival themselves, helping one another with equipment and 
technical issues like sound checks. Others are involved in the set-up of 
the whole event, from loading in, to advance publicity. Sharing their 
skills in this way ensures that the festival will take place. Helping to 
organize their own festival is like a badge of honor; it’s a testament 
to their unified commitment to having a forum for their ideas, their 
music, and a true sense of belonging to a worldwide community of 
electronic music enthusiasts. This show of generosity and support for 
one another makes for a charged and spirited atmosphere where new 
alliances are forged, ideas and techniques are exchanged and the 
excitement is always palpable.

Since the late 1920’s musicians and composers have pursued the making of 
music by electronic means, finally reaching its widest audience with the 
groundbreaking partnership of the late Dr. Robert Moog and Wendy Carlos 
with the 1968 release of the worldwide smash album, Switched on Bach. In 
that one recording, the famed Moog Synthesizer changed the world’s 
musical landscape forever. Now, in the present day, people of all ages 
can create electronic music on their own home computers using a host of 
affordable software applications. Electro-Music 2007 affords the public 
a chance to see and hear a staggering variety of electronic music being 
made live. And they’ll see music being made on an equally staggering 
array of equipment, from laptop computers to the most sophisticated 
state-of-the-art synthesizers. There are musicians who perform on 
homemade rigs composed of guitar pedals, wonderfully modified toys (a 
process called circuit bending), and highly unusual creations such as 
the theremin – an instrument that is played without being touched.

For more information, schedules and a brief video documentary of last 
year’s festival, visit www.electro-music.com.

ELECTRO-MUSIC 2007 runs from noon to midnight, Friday through Sunday, 
June 1, 2, and 3rd, at the Cheltenham Art Center, located at 439 
Ashburne Road in Cheltenham PA, just outside Philadelphia. Free Parking 
is available in the church lot just across the street
You can purchase Single Day Passes for $25.00, an Evening Concert Ticket 
for $20.00, or a full 3-Day Festival Pass for just $60.00. Tickets are 
available at the door, or online at event.electro-music.com.