Leyya Mona Tawil, also known as Lime Rickey International, is an artist, curator, and cultural activist. She works in dance, sound art and hybrid performance practices. Tawil is Syrian and Palestinian, engaged in the world as such. Her works have toured extensively throughout Europe, the Arab region, and the states. Recent highlights include sound projects at the Sibelius Museum (Turku-FI) and Play House Labs (Detroit), and a Rainin Foundation NEW grant for a new choreography. She is the founding director of experimental arts platform Arab.AMP, and has stewarded TAC Temescal Art Center in Oakland since 1997.

DULL was born and raised somewhere in the northern hemisphere. He studied classical piano, played in indie rock bands, and composed chamber works that have been performed at major festivals across four continents. He also has an extensive background in computer music, both as an artist and a coder. His latest major work is an album of highly unconventional songs, set to be released soon. His rare live performances weave together all these threads, combining instrumental mastery with live electronics, blending improvisation with careful planning, balancing lab-coat meticulousness with a punk attitude, and sometimes even featuring his singing.

Angélica Negrón is a Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist known for blending classical and electronic music with unexpected instruments, toys, and found sounds. Upcoming premieres include a cello concerto for Yo-Yo Ma with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, and a requiem for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She has written works for Opera Philadelphia, New York Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, and made her Carnegie Hall debut with Sō Percussion. A Hermitage Greenfield Prize recipient and Lincoln Center Collider Fellow, she also composes for film, performs solo, and co-founded the electronic band Balún. Angélica lives in Brooklyn, where she’s always looking for ways to incorporate her love of drag, comedy, and the natural world into her work.

Celia Hollander is a Los Angeles-based composer, producer and performer. Combining acoustic and digital elements, her work focuses on themes such as shaping time through composition, surrendering to improvisation, and music as a natural phenomenon of dynamic systems. Her discography features releases on Leaving Records, Longform Editions, Recital and Noumenal Loom, and she has performed at venues including 2220 Arts & Archives (LA), Public Records (NYC), Grace Cathedral (SF), Basilica Hudson (NY) and Bond Chapel (CHI). She has taught at the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts, and she has created original scores and sound design for film, TV, dance performances and VR.

Deemed an "audiovisual sorceress," Freida Abtan is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist and musician inspired by sensory immersion. Her music ranges from acousmatic composition to more industrial and pop-influenced experimental anthems. Both as a solo artist, and as a floating member of the renowned experimental music group Nurse with Wound, she has toured her music and visuals internationally. Her compositions, performances and installations have been featured at Mutek (CA), the Elektra Festival (CA), the Spark Festival of Electronic Music (USA), and the Cap Sembrat Festival (ES), amongst many others. She is an Associate Professor of Electronic Music Composition at Carnegie Mellon University.

Julien Bayle is a Marseille-based artist whose practice embraces sound, image, and data through a radical minimalist lens. His works stage tension between order and collapse, where strict formal structures gradually erode into unpredictable textures. Exploring repetition, density, and silence, he creates immersive environments that foreground perception itself, confronting audiences with fragile systems that reveal their own mechanics. Generative algorithms, temporal grids, and audiovisual architectures become the raw material of an austere yet intensely physical language. Alongside his artistic research, he is also an Ableton and Max Certified Trainer.

S’hells Gate exists between heaven and hell, the ashes rising from the fire, both destruction and transcendence. A three-piece outfit comprising members Jonathan Carr, Matt Brownell, and Cat Lauigan, S’hells Gate fuses elements of arpeggiated electronics, experimental poetry / processed trance vocals, oscillating hypnotic drones with industrial dub rhythms.

Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish improviser, sound artist, and scholar who is recognised for her embodied approach to computer music. Her music is a mix of experimental pop/live electronics/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as “voracious” and “exhilarating.” As a live sound sculptor, she manipulates, remixes, and bends voice, drum machines, analogue synths, and self-built software. She has toured extensively across Europe and North America, including as part of her tenure with the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Her work has been released on Superpang, Hard Return, Pan Y Rosas Discos, LOL Editions, Werra Foxma, Sunwarped, and Harmonic Ooze Records.

Music hacker duo DADABOTS formed at Music Hack Day MIT in 2012. From punk/metal roots and touring, to 80 hackathons, they realized machine learning was an even more extreme way to make sound and dove into eliminating humans from music. Advancing from songs to endless streams, they run the infinite 24/7 death metal livestream on YouTube. They also play at the United Nations. Check their new minidoc PROMPT JOCKEYS. DADABOTS’ ethos is simple: absurdism, release open source code, and collab with artists and students. They treat AI as an instrument to break and rebuild in real time. They stole fire from the gods, yes—but they also hand out the matches.

The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is an artist-run organization founded in 1999 by eight local sound artists and musicians. Since the first festival in 2000, SFEMF has presented works that span the sonic spectrum from ambient to rhythmic and atonal to melodic by participants ranging from new and emerging young artists to respected pioneers of the electronic music field. Recent festivals have featured performances by clipping, zoviet france, William Basinski, Dieter Moebius, Christian Marclay, and Maja Ratkje. For more info: sfemf.org.