Julian Bayle Headlines the SF Electronic Music Festival
Concert, Festival, Performance
Now in its 24th year, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF) presents three nights of live electronic performances showcasing a vibrant mix of internationally renowned and emerging artists.
Founded by a collective of Bay Area electro-acoustic musicians and sound artists, SFEMF provides a vital platform for composers and creators working with electronic-based technologies in the Bay Area and beyond. The annual multi-day festival features concerts, installations, and discussions, spotlighting independent artists whose experimental approaches challenge both academic and commercial conventions.
Since its first edition in 2000, SFEMF has brought together an extraordinary range of voices—from pioneering figures in electronic music to the next generation of innovators—offering audiences an ever-evolving exploration of sound that spans the spectrum from ambient to rhythmic, and from atonal to melodic.
Villa Albertine San Francisco is proud to sponsor this landmark festival, which celebrates sonic experimentation, cross-cultural dialogue, and the enduring spirit of artistic innovation that defines the Bay Area’s creative landscape.
Hosted this year at Gray Area, the 2025 edition features a diverse lineup of artists across three evenings, headlined by Julien Bayle, who will perform super.system—a live work that fuses sound and image through real-time generative composition. Constantly evolving, the piece exists as a living system where intention meets entropy, offering audiences a rare glimpse into the intersection of technology, improvisation, and sensory experience.
About Julian Bayle:
Julien Bayle is a Marseille-based artist whose practice merges sound, image, and data through a radical minimalist lens. His works explore the tension between order and collapse, as precise formal structures gradually erode into unpredictable textures. Through repetition, density, and silence, Bayle constructs immersive environments that heighten perception, inviting audiences to witness the fragility of systems as they reveal their inner mechanics. Generative algorithms, temporal grids, and audiovisual architectures form the core of his austere yet deeply physical artistic language.
Bayle has performed at major venues and festivals around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, Dresden’s Cynetart Festival, and the New Museum of Monaco.
In partnership with
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Gray Area is a nonprofit in San Francisco applying creativity for positive social impact.
“We use digital tools to create art and design projects that benefit society. We test and scale projects with high impact potential, teach digital tools to support artists and technologists, and inspire our community by promoting meaningful new work.
We apply the promise and inspiration of digital art to a broader social context. Our programs are transforming cities into creative outlets, applying technology to solve problems, and shaping how art is created and consumed in the digital era.”
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
The mission of the SFEMF is to provide a highly visible public forum for the diverse community of composers and sound artists working with electronic-based technologies in the Bay Area and beyond.
