The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2026
The Bay Area's legendary annual event dedicated to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features four distinct concerts of classic audio art and new "fixed media" compositions by local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system (24 high-end loudspeakers) with the audience seated in complete darkness. It's a unique opportunity to experience music forming, literally, around you.
Saturday's 9:30 PM concert focuses on late-night-appropriate works that lean toward ambient and long-form sonic exploration, with works by ROBERT NORMANDEAU, STÉPHANE ROY,
Thomas Dimuzio, MONIQUE JEAN, and NATHAN CORDER.
and don't miss Sunday night with a major presentation BERNARD PARMEGIANI'S monumental 1984 masterpiece, "La Création du monde," which will be performed in its full, concert-length duration from a newly released four-track long version.
Cost: $10/$20/($50 fest pass)