Festivals
Activating people, places and environments for cutting-edge art and music experiences
Soundwave next : 2020
Soundwave NEXT is a partnership between Gray Area and Soundwave, two veteran San Francisco arts organizations to explore the future of sound.
Soundwave ((9)) :: TIME
Intergenerational histories, cultivation of safe spaces, migration and displacement and current political realities.
Soundwave ((8)) :: INFRASTRUCTURE
Not only the basics of a city, its joists and support beams, but more acutely the human and ecological frameworks affected by physical systems.
Soundwave ((7)) :: Architecture
Pushing the boundaries of our auditory perception of spaces, language, and music, challenging the way we understand our surroundings.
Soundwave ((6)) :: water
Investigating the ecologies, stories and properties of water through sound.
Soundwave ((5)) :: Humanities
Exploring our sonic connections to the human condition
Soundwave ((4)) :: GREEN SOUND
Exploring our sonic connections to the environment
Soundwave ((3)) :: MOVE SOUND
Exploring movement and sound
Soundwave ((2)) :: SURROUND SOUND
Exploring space, acoustics and the constructs of performance
Soundwave ((1)) :: FREE SOUND
Free your mind about what sound is and what it can be
PROJECT>SOUNDWAVE: AN EXPLORATION INTO THE NATURE OF SOUND
The album that started it all
Festival News
Playback’s AudioBus Takes the Show on the Road — Literally, SFWeekly
“Mediate’s Playback series does this one better, featuring “the most acclaimed events” (read: audience favorites) from its already well-regarded (read: expertly curated) Soundwave Festival”. Read
July 27, 2011: Playback: AudioBus, SF Bay Guardian
“Every few years, the Soundwave Festival inundates the Bay Area with adventurous sonic experiences, like watching tiny solar-powered speakers bloom like flowers on Civic Center trees, or hearing a concrete bunker in Marin reverberate with waves of bass.” ...
July 19, 2011: Party on a Bus, SF Station
“Not your typical method of partying, the open-top double-decker AudioBus has been traveling the streets of San Francisco for nearly three years now while musicians onboard provide a soundtrack appropriate for the scenery passing by.” Read
June 10, 2010 : Soundwave Festival by Tessa Stuart, KQED
“Strange noises echoed out of an abandoned WWII fortification hollowed into the hillside above Rodeo Beach. Gregg Kowalsky orchestrated elegant, almost hypnotic, loops that reverberated viscerally around the audience; Jacob Felix Heule and Kanoko Nishi stormed the...
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