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The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which capsulates music featuring electronic instrumts such as electric guitar and keyboards, as well as rect gres such as electronic dance music (EDM). Many of the festivals in this list take place in the United States and Europe, though every year thousands of electronic-focused music festivals are held throughout the world. This list gerally excludes multi-gre festivals with only a partial focus on electronic music (Glastonbury, Summer Sonic Festival, and Big Day Out) and festivals that have added EDM stages in later years.
Since the early 1900s there have be music festivals that featured electronic instrumts, as electronic sounds were used in experimtal music such as electroacoustic and tape music. The use of live electronic music greatly expanded in the 1950s, along with the use of electric guitar and bass. With the advt of new technologies in the 1960s, electronic gres such as electronic rock, electronic jazz, disco, computer music, synthpop, psychedelic rock and ambit music followed, with large free festivals showcasing the sounds into the 1970s. There has be a significant change in the capabilities of amplifiers, sequcers, and mixing synthesizers since 1980, as well as computers and digital audio workstations. This has giv electronic musicians and DJs the ability to mix elaborate and complicated music in forms such as techno, electronica, trance, house or industrial, all of which have large festivals, raves, technoparades, algoraves, doofs, or teknivals in their sole dedication.
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A number of festivals for classical music and folk music in the late 1800s and early 1900s periodically featured electronic instrumts and electroacoustic improvisation, though they were not necessarily a regular feature. Some of these festivals included Leeds Festival (1858–1985) in gland, the folk festival ÞjóðhátÃð (1874–prest) in Iceland, and Glastonbury (1914–25) in gland.
A vital party of the history of electronic music, this festival paved the way to the concept of establishing small festivals to prest new and experimtal musicians. After World War I, a significant increase in new electronic instrumts took place, becoming featured elemts of the festival. In 1926, Jorg Mager invted an electronic instrumt without a keyboard, called the Spharophon, among others, which was shown at the festival.
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu holds an annual trad and modern jazz festival in the ground of Beaulieu estate, in the New Forest. Attracts beats and jazz ecctrics, called 'ravers'.
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ONCE Group was responsible for hosting. During the years the festival was active, a number of avant-garde composers’ works were performed, including Pauline Oliveros, David Behrman, Roger Reynolds, Ge Tyranny, and Philip Krumm. The compositions and the performances served as a laboratory for new approaches in both acoustic and electronic music.
Was a binial festival for contemporary music sponsored by Radio Brem from 1958 to 2001. It was founded by Hans Otte. Pro Musica Nova introduced the public to the music of experimtal composers including Karlheinz Stockhaus, John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Conlon Nancarrow and Hans-Joachim Hespos. Otte also commissioned many new works for the festival.
See list of historic rock festivals for a more comprehsive list of early rock/pop festivals, detailing live psychedelic rock, electronic rock and nu jazz in the 1960s and 1970s, all of which feature electronic elemts.
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Mostly orited around jazz and blues to start, this annual festival soon became a showcase for progressive rock as well, featuring groups such as the psychedelic rock group Cream.
Th became the first music festival to embrace punk rock and new wave in the late 1970s, wh The Jam, Sham 69, The Stranglers and Petration were among the headline acts.
It was organized and sponsored by the Italian record industry association, AFI, and by RAI, except for the editions betwe 1995 and 2000, in which the festival was organized and broadcast by Mediaset.
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The Trips Festival on January 21–23, 1966 was the most attded and advertised of the early Acid Tests evts, which were started in late 1965.
On Saturday January 22, the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company came on stage, and 6, 000 people arrived to imbibe punch spiked with LSD and to witness one of the first fully developed light shows of the era.
An experimtal international festival, a number of electroacoustic works were prested during its run, with artists such as Dave Tudor and John Cage performing in 1971.
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The Summer of Love from 1967 to 1968 was an important aspect of the counterculture movemt of the 1960s, which was closely tied with alternative music and free rock festivals featuring gres such as psychedelic rock. The developmt of better electronic speaker equipmt allowed for massive concerts to attract hundreds of thousands of attdees. Started with the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival in Marin County, California, the other significant shows in California included the Monterey Pop Festival, the San Francisco Pop Festival, the Los Angeles Pop Festival, Newport Pop Festival, and Northern California Folk Rock Festival I and II. Notable shows not in California included the Miami Pop Festival I and II in Florida, and the Isle of Wight Festival in gland. By 1969, similar festivals were appearing all over the world, bringing alternative music to increasingly mainstream audices.
The 1970 evt was by far the largest and most famous of these early festivals and the unexpectedly high attdance levels with estimates of over 600, 000 led, in 1971, to Parliamt passing the "Isle of Wight Act" prevting gatherings of more than 5, 000 people on the island without a special licse.
This historically and culturally notable festival is known to have served as a defining momt for baby boomers. Performers included Joe Cocker, Jimi Hdrix and Santana among many others, with gres such as acoustic music, folk music, and psychedelic rock. From August 15–18, Woodstock had an audice of over 400, 000 young people.
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A DJ played records for early arrivals starting Friday eving, and continued to do so betwe many of the sets until the d. The festival featured a line-up of the top American west coast and British bands of the day, including Santana, The Flock, Led Zeppelin (headlining act), Pink Floyd, etc.
The first World's Fair held in Japan, which featured a number of electronic music exhibits. The West German pavilion, designed by Fritz Bornemann, featured the world's first spherical concert hall.
Early Japanese computer music compositions include a piece by Kjiro Ezaki prested during Osaka Expo '70. Since th, Japanese research in computer music has largely be carried out for commercial purposes in popular music, though some Japanese musicians used large computer systems such as the Fairlight in the 1970s
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Hosted by the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges in France. Composers submit works which are assessed by an international jury.
A British free festival organised by some London commune dwellers, notably Ubi Dwyer and Sid Rawle. The evt was brutally suppressed by the police, which led to a public outcry about the tactics involved. In 1975, both Ubi Dwyer and Sid Rawle were imprisoned for attempting to promote a 1975 Windsor Festival.
A yearly international conferce for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conferce of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).
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A festival compassing some 60 shows, with over 200 artists on 13 stages within a week. The shows represt diverse gres, oft experimtal and electronic. The ever-growing public is composed primarily of young people (91% are under 35), and over 200, 000 people attd the festival each year.
The rock festival was noteworthy because of the importance of the headliner bands that played, the timing in the evolution of new wave music, and from the size of the crowd.
The festival was ramed in 1998. It has featured electroacoustic musicians such as Julio Roloff. Juan Blanco created it with the purpose of presting Cuban composer's electroacoustic and avant-garde works to an international audice, and to establish relationships with foreign composers and artists.
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Originally held at SO36 in Kreuzberg, the early years of Atonal fostered revolutionary and innovative musical acts such as Psychic TV, Einstürzde Neubaut, Test Dept, 808 State, and Die Haut, among many others.
Throughout the 1980s, Berlin Atonal was at the vanguard of the progressive electronic and experimtal music and art sces in Berlin. The festival closed in 1990. In 2013, Berlin Atonal was at a massive abandoned powerplant in Berlin-Mitte.
Organised by the Artists-in-Berlin-Program of the DAAD, in cooperation with the Electronic Studio of the TU Berlin since 1982, the festival is dedicated to electro-acoustic music and sound art.
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That was fashion-aware, gay-fridly, and that appreciated dance music and op, outrageous celebration. Forty Rat Parties were organized by the Recreational Arts Team betwe 1983 and 1992.
A week-long electronic music evt, held every March in various clubs in Miami. It is aimed at professionals such as DJs, record label represtatives and promoters. The evt is also considered a mecca for clubbers, and it features the International
