New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival

Electroacoustic music is music whose sound incorporates electronic tools and instruments, including software, in its production or performance. Electroacoustic music often seeks to explore all the sonic possibilities of new technologies, and it includes both works performed live onstage and works created in the studio and played back in concert, the latter sometimes called “cinema for the ears.”

The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival is the largest celebration of electroacoustic music in the world: music performed by acoustic musical instruments, laptops, and custom electronic devices, as well as works involving digital video, and sound installations. It spans 28 concerts, both at the Abrons Arts Center and here, at National Sawdust.