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, and is partnering with Northwest African American Museum which is a TUF Workshops location! This all-ages event is free and open to the public! Judkins Park will be filled with visual art installations, musical performances, w...
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, and is partnering with Northwest African American Museum which is a TUF Workshops location! 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.
MCs Sassyblack and Jenn Green (RWD FM)
Featuring music by....
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> [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]
https://soundcloud.com/donormaal
"Without a doubt, the award for “hardest hustle in Seattle” goes to Christianne Karefa-Johnson, aka DoNormaal. In the past eight months since her incredible debut LP Jump or Die came out, Karefa-Johnson must have played something close to 50 or 60 shows. That’s all on top of spearheading her own artist collective (69/50), playing a raved-about, sold-out opening set for Santigold two weeks ago, and heading to New York to study with the Underground Producers Alliance after winning the organization’s first Andreas Robbins Scholarship. That hard work has paid off—the MC is one of the most buzzed-about new artists in town, and rightfully so. Her left-field, experimental approach to hip-hop, full of woozy, eerie textures and inimitably playful poetics, is a shot in the arm to the local scene." - Seattle Weekly
<> [Seattle, WA]
https://soundcloud.com/nightspace
"Skye sounds like a multitude, uses a keyboard and a drum machine to make moody beats they dub “dreamcore,” and their able to sing in both very high and low registers and self-harmonize with their samples, which had me looking for a second band member. Nightspace’s sound is somehow both languid and frenzied—their performance a carefully choreographed series of movements and expressions that involve their entire body." - Seattle Weekly
<> [Seattle, WA]
http://soundcloud.com/red_alder
Red Alder is the solo project of Kelsie Brown from Seattle. Under this moniker she creates emotive, atmospheric music influenced by ambient, dream pop, and classical music. Her newest works bring in elements of techno and house music to make the listener feel uneasy and hypnotized, and reminisce about their own anxiety. She has self-released 2011’s Dissociation EP and 2012’s well-received Empty Staircases full-length, and has a forthcoming release coming later this year.
http://redalder.bandcamp.com
http://soundcloud.com/red_alder
& more to be announced.
Featuring art by...
Coco Allred
Annisa Amalia
Louisa Carlson-Ziegler
Hannah Therese Eberts and Shaana Hatamian
Bristol Hayward-Hughes
Mel Carter
Mariko Yoshino
Jasmine Gervais
[TUF TALKS AND PANELS]
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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.