Tujiko Noriko

The 2008 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival will be presented from Sept. 3 to 7 at Project Artaud Theater, 450 Florida St. (between 17th and Mariposa) in San Francisco.

The festival consists of five evenings of performances by internationally recognized artists and musicians. This year’s lineup includes a wide array of electronic music pioneers, modern innovators, and emerging artists whose styles and methods include contemporary chamber music, glitch, industrial sounds, music concrete, sound design, drone music, free improvisation and pop music.

The lineup is as follows:

Wednesday, Sept. 3, at 8 p.m. —  Sharkiface, SF Sound Group, Phil Niblock

Thursday, Sept. 4, at 8 p.m. — Ray Sweeten, Edmund Campion with Thomas Buckner, Tujiko Noriko

Friday, Sept. 5, at 8 p.m. — Myrmyr, Ata “Sote” Ebtekar, Richard Teitelbaum

Saturday, Sept. 6, at 8 p.m. — Monique Buzzarté, Rutro and the Logs, Akira Rabelais

Sunday, Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. — Barpieces, Hans Fjellestad, Pauline Oliveros and Carl Stone, with a pre-concert talk in the gallery at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $17 general, $12 for students and seniors, and $55 for a festival pass. Call the ODC box office at (415) 863-9834 Wednesday through Saturday between 2 and 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.sfemf.org/sfemf2008.html.

Tujiko Noriko

Born in Osaka and living in Paris, Tujiko Noriko is an avant-pop experimental musician sometimes compared to múm or Björk. She crafts avant-garde songs by fusing digital noises with innocently sung vocals.

Since 2000, she has released five solo albums and some collaborations/mini albums, making words and most of the tracks by herself. She sings in Japanese, though all of her albums are released on European labels, such as Austria’s MEGO and Germany’s Tomlab.

She has carved out a sound world all her own, where lo-bitrate noise collages form a framework for dreamy and melancholic pop ballads.

In 2004, she started to make movies, and she has finished two narrative works. Since 2006, she has also been busy with her baby.