Soundwave 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].
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Soundwave is produced by ME'DI.ATE 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 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[5][3], 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 has had three 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 just completed its fourth Soundwave season GREEN SOUND 2010 which included performances in historic WWII Bunkers[13], churches[14], city streets and parks, and an artist-imagined environment Illuminated Forest[15].