September 22-27, 2009 - Washington, DC

The Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music was initiated by the American Composers Forum (ACF) to provide DC's music and art communities with the opportunity to sample experimental and avant-garde electronic music, with an emphasis on improvisation and artistic use of new technologies.

Now heading into its ninth year, the Washington DC chapter of the ACF has expanded the scope of the festival to include electro-acoustic compositions, free jazz, noise rock, electronic drone and experimental folk, as well as live video and film programs, presented year round.

Sonic Circuits seeks to foster the spirit of collaboration through the diversity of participating artists, and its varied programming appeals to arts enthusiasts of all types.

Archive

List of Festival Participants

2008 - Artists

Andrea Parkins
Baby Dee
Ben Miller
Bernhard Gal
BLK w/ BEAR + VJ Poppins
Blue Sausage Infant
Bonnie Jones
Burbuja
Caustic Castle
The Circuitry Dance Patrol
Corpus Callosum
Cutest Puppy in the World
David Watson
DC Listening Lounge
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
Dead Science
Echolalia
Elmapi+matterlink
Equinox
fight the big bull w/ marty mccavitt
Food for Animals
Chris Grier
Haptic
Hume
id m thef table
Insect Factory
Janel & Anthony
Jason Kahn + Jon Mueller
Jeff Carey
Jeroen Vandesande
KBD
Kohoutek
Matmos
Mattin
Mieke Lambrigts
Mind Over Matter Music Over Mind
Myo
Northern Machine
ok|ok
Pacific 231
Paul Flaherty/Randall Colbourne
Pauwel De Buck
Phog Masheeen
Polyphasic
Preliminary Saturation
rarescale
RDK
Second Land
Silvum
Elliott Levin/Dan Scofield/Aaron Martin/Britton Powell/Scott Verrastro
Skull Defekts
Soft Pieces
Talk Normal
The deep end ensemble
the scott verrastro experience
thenumber46 (Suzanne Thorpe & Philip White)
This bag is not a toy
Tone Ghosting
Trio Chroch
Twilight Memories of the Three Suns
Worms in Dirt

2008 - Venues

Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD
Metro: Silver Spring

Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW Washington, DC
Metro: U ST

National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave., NW Washington, DC
Metro: Metro Center

2007

Txema Agiriano
Alexis
All Violet
AM Salad
Animental
Thomas Ankersmit
Gilles Aubry
Baseline
BLK w/ BEAR
Josh Bonnetta
Naila Borensztein
Brown Wing Overdrive
Buck Gooter
Arturas Bumšteinas
Cash Slave Clique
Caustic Castle
Tony Conrad & Violent Raid
Caution Curves
Cheapmachines
Ramon Churruca
Constant Mauk
Corridors
The Cutest Puppy in the World
Frans de Waard
Nick Didkovsky & Sirius String Quartet
Element Kuuda
Marianna Ellenberg
Ergo
Oier Etxeberria
Exploding Star Orchestra
Thorsten Fleisch
Iris Garrelfs
Gunung Sari
Christoph Heemann
Zan Hoffman
Koen Holtkamp
Humcrush
Insect Factory
Ironing
Michael Thomas Jackson & Brian Osbourne
Janel and Anthony
Antanas Jasenka
Kakerlak
Kohoutek Percussion Ensemble
Kuschty Rye Ergot
Gunter Krüger
Lamathilde
Nick Lopata
Janel Leppin
Ida Lundén
Sarah Lundén
Hal McGee
Moljebka Pvlse
Murmer
Mind Over Matter Music Over Mind
Myo
Northern Machine
Noveller
o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi)
Ben Owen
People
Piasa
Pinko Communiods
Doug Poplin
Promute
Radio Shock
RDK
Safe
James June Schnieder
Scraping Teeth
Shelf Life
Spaceships Panic Orbit
Martijn Tellinga
36
This Bag is Not a Toy
TL0741
Esther Venrooy
VJ Poppins
Andy Wilson
Jack Wright & Michael Johnsen
xedh

2006

Phill Niblock
Mikroknytes
Wolf Eyes
Matterlink
Los Glissandinos
Scott Smallwood
Andy Hayleck
Ben Owen
BLK w/ BEAR + VJ Poppins
Lum and Abner of Morocco
Harvey Bainbridge of
Hawkwind w/ Spaceseed
Yellow Swans
Mouthus
Kohoutek
MoHa!
Robert van Heumann
USA-USB
SKIF++
If, Bwana
Violet
Michael Gendreau
elmapi
Northern Machine
Jeff Carey
Office-(R)6
PHO
DB
John Wiese
Ovo
Mr. Natural
Harrius
Facemat
HZMT
Mat Weston + Tone Ghosting

2005

Matt Weston
The Cutest Puppy in the World
Jakuta & Carl
New Age Hillbilly
Myo
sc.all
TL0741
Vivian Adelberg Rudow
Jonathan Morris
LoVid
Violet
Projexorcism
Paul Oehlers
Haig Mardirosian
Jerzy Sapieyevski
Randall Packer and Fernando Benadon
“Efficiency Project” by Jane Jerardi Featuring music by Scanner
Stephen Vitiello and Patrick Power
ENOCH 212
Richard Chartier
USAISAMONSTER
Kites

2004

Auto Looming
Mantra
Tyler Higgins
Evan Lipson
Enoch 212
Dissident Disney
“Mycenaen”
Carl Hancock Rux
DC Improvisors Collective
Makihara – Nakatani duo
Outputmessage
Doofgoblin
Siloen
Nick normal
Derek Morton
Phil Kline
Todd Reynolds
Peter B

2003

Lucas Zarwell
Matt Boze
Twine
Mikroknytes
Jeffrey Krieger
Michael Gallelli
PARAS KAUL
Chessie

2002

Trance and the Arcade
Jonathan Matis & Alexandra Gardner
Amelia Saddington
John Berndt
Dan Conrad & Ian Nagoski
Carly Ptak
Richard Chartier
Mark Applebaum
Roddy Schrock with Erin Flannery and Chris Nappi
Paras Kaul
Alan Tormey
Mikroknytes
36
Spaceships Panic Orbit
Violet
Roddy Schrock with
Erin Flannery and Chris Nappi Alan Tormey
Alberto Gaitan
Kim Cascone
Ikue Mori
Mark Applebaum
Paras Kaul
Doug Wolf
Neil Feather & Andy Hayleck
Alberto Gaitan
Dan Conrad and Ian Nagoski
John Berndt

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