Friday Aug. 2, 4 pm – Sunday Aug. 4, Noon

Electric Eclectics Festival Advance Discount Tickets – choose day passes or weekend passes. A single Day Pass can be used for either Friday or Saturday. All prices are in Canadian dollars. Each ticket admits one person. Designated camping area is at the festival site.

The EE Experience

Our artist lineup will be announced in spring 2024. As always, we will feature a unique program of adventurous music and art that will culminate in another unforgettable EE experience. Electric Eclectics takes place on a farm overlooking the scenic Big Head Valley, just outside of Meaford, Ontario. The farm features some of the best sunsets you will ever see. Each year, we assemble an eclectic program of avant-garde and crossover musicians, as well as art installations, and DJs.

Adventurous musicians and artists

Past highlights include Suzanne Ciani, Dreamcrusher, Mykki Blanco, Silver Apples, Lido Pimienta, Iskwé, Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer, Lydia Lunch & Weasel Walter, US Girls, Jennifer Walsche, Julianna Barwick, Damo Suzuki, Tony Conrad, Laura Ortman, Tim Hecker, HEALTH, The Gories, John Oswald, Glass Orchestra, Carla Bozulich, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Katie Stelmanis (Austra), Chelsea Wolfe, Let’s Paint TV, Petra Glynt, Alexander Hacke, Danielle de Picciotto, Edwin van der Heide, Shelley Hirsch, Lary 7, and Dorit Chrysler.

Highlights from EE 2023:

If you want to submit an application to perform or present at EE 2024, please go to the submissions page and fill out the form. Submissions deadline is January 15, 2024!

Bill Coleman and Gordon Monahan

Sound of Mind and Body

Watch the live stream on the EE Twitch TV channel

The production of this video and livestream has been made possible with a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

This collaboration by Bill Coleman and Gordon Monahan uses concepts of human-to-computer brainwave interfacing to manipulate and produce real-time music, sound and lighting, integrated with dance, body performance and slapstick. An EEG interface worn by dancer-choreographer Coleman sends data to several Max/MSP software patches in real-time. As Coleman shifts through various states of mental and physical concentration and movement, he is able to produce and control alpha-brainwaves while dancing. He uses these alpha waves in conjunction with Monahan’s software manipulations, to produce various responses in musical instruments such as piano and percussion, to control the fading of stage lights, and to control sound spatialization and audio processing. Monahan simultaneously controls several Max/MSP software patches on stage that harness Coleman’s brain signals to sculpt soundwaves, light, instrumental composition and kinetic actions into a progressively layered multi-media artwork.

Historical note:.

This piece follows in the tradition of brainwave music composition pioneered by Alvin Lucier, David Rosenboom, Richard Teitelbaum, and others, beginning in the 1960s. In fact, the history of brainwaves and sound reproduction dates back to 1928, when the British scientist Edgar Adrian (1889–1977) was the first to successfully sonify human brainwaves (EEG) in laboratory experiments.