TUF invites you to the very first TUFFEST: A celebration of visual art, performance, and education with a goal of uplifting, expanding, and celebrating the female, non-binary, and trans electronic music community.
TUFFEST is funded by the Office of Arts & Culture Seattle. This all-ages event is free and open to the public! Judkins Park will be filled with visual art installations, musical performances, workshops, and TUF talks.
Featuring music by....
> [Blueberry Records / Break World Records / Seattle Debut!]
Elysia Crampton is a Bolivian-born, U.S.-based producer. Her album "American Drift" (on FaltyDL's label Blueberry Recordings) re-examines American narratives and gives trans-ontologies a voice and resonance. Blending sounds from critically marginalized sources, with heavy emphasis on Latin genres, Crampton creates captivating music deeply embedded in ideas. TUFFEST will feature Elysia’s “Dissolution of the Sovereign: A Time Slide into the Future,” an audio-visual play that unfolds as a DJ production and live performance, bridging the oral history tradition and theater legacy of the Aymara people with Elysia’s own trans-femme abolitionist grasp of futurity.
> [Portland, OR]
In Soft Metals, an electronic music duo from Portland, Oregon, Hall is inspired by a diverse array of synthesizer music. Her sound lies somewhere between dance music, austere synthetic pop, and experimental electronic composition. Soft Metals's debut self-titled album came out in July of 2011. FACT magazine called them “one of the most accomplished and ambitious of the myriad new synth-pop acts coming out of the States.” For TUFFEST, Hall will perform new solo material live in front of an audience for the first time.
> [Magic Echo Music / Oakland, CA]
Kaori Suzuki is an electronic musician who primarily uses synthesis, acoustic recordings, and custom-made machines produced through her company, Magic Echo Music. Currently based out of Oakland, California, Suzuki is pursuing her MFA in Electronic Music at the prestigious Mills College. Her studies have led her to work with the open source audio programming language, SuperCollider, which will be the basis of her performance at TUFFEST. Suzuki’s oeuvre includes music for film, installation, and improvisations, which have been performed or displayed in Berlin, New York city, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle. She and her partner, Jonathan James Carr, have a forthcoming release on Further Records.
> [Seattle, WA]
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& more to be announced.
[TUF TALKS AND PANELS]
+ A morning of exploratory workshops & conversations in partnership with Seattle Sound Girls, Patchwerks, Emma Olsen (UMFANG) of Discwoman, musician Kaori Suzuki, Powerful Voices's Zaria Diggins, and more!
Keep an eye out for our full schedule, coming soon.
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