Santa Cruz Electronic Open Mic (next event: Thursday 28th August 2025)
We are taking a break for July. Sign ups for August will open on 1st August.
What: A sign-up based Open Mic night for anyone involved in making electronic music, whatever the style, genre or format - anything from ambient and drone through synth pop, techno to industrial, noise and beyond!
The intent is to showcase live performances of music that is PRIMARILY ELECTRONIC IN NATURE - e.g. acts using hardware or software synthesizers, electronic instruments, laptops, groove boxes, drum machines, sequencers and so forth.
Please take a look at this Youtube Playlist which showcases previous acts before you sign up. This will give you a better idea of whether what your act does will be a good fit for the night. The definition is pretty broad but ask us if you’re still not sure your act is a fit.
It’s not a forum for DJ’ing, or playing pre-recorded music, or for regular acoustic/electric acts (try the ‘open decks’ night at Motiv, or one of the more traditional open mic nights around town). For example, if your act can primarily be described by a genre like 'rock', 'alt-rock','acoustic', 'singer songwriter' or similar then you should probably sign up for a different event (having 'electronic elements' is not enough). This doesn't preclude you using more traditional instruments like guitars or cellos - but the expectation is that these are used as part of an overall electronic composition, and not as the primary sound source, e.g. a bass guitar processed through a bunch of pitch shifters, delays, reverbs to create ambient textures and strange sounds is probably a great fit - but playing regular bass riffs over a pre-recorded backing track is probably not.
We have six 20 minute slots for performances. Come and hear your music played through a high-end Meyer sound system. YOU NEED TO RESERVE A SLOT IN ORDER TO PERFORM. NO WALK INS
Please reserve a slot by completing the short sign up form here (Form is preferred but you can also email emom@subvurt.net with the details in the ‘sign up’ section below.) We will contact you to confirm your slot.
More details:
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Where: the Indexical music space at The Tannery. 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
When: From 7pm until 10:30pm Every fourth Thursday of the month (NOTE: next edition is on Thursday 28th August 2025)
Questions? Email the emom.sc crew: (emom@subvurt.net)
Sign Up Details
Please complete the sign up form (preferred) or email the following information to emom@subvurt.net
Real Name
Name of Act/Band
Email:
Phone:
Description (e.g genre, influences, bio or other relevant information). We may publish this on social media ahead of or after the show.
Links: (e.g. soundcloud, bandcamp, youtube, band website)
Equipment/Instruments (describe what you'll be bringing to perform)
Any special requirements or accommodations you may need
Anything else we need to know?
Thank you!
The emom.sc crew (Steve, Kyle, Ben, Paula, Myles, Luke and Matt)