Circuits in the Woods is an electronic music festival taking place in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, on Saturday, November 15, 2025.

It features workshops, performances, and lectures from nearly 20 different artists—from electronic music pioneers as well as current musicians—and a hands-on component lovingly named “the synth petting zoo.”

“We’ll have many kinds of music: ambient, darkwave, power pop, synth pop, yacht-rock-jazz-pop, funky psych, psych improv, noise rock, post-rock, a space opera, and good ol’ bloops and bleeps.”

Circuits in the Woods is a reminder that there are as many ways to make music as there are musicians.

This festival includes artists who make music using only synthesizers and other electronic instruments.

This festival features artists who create music by combining electronic instruments with acoustic instruments, field recordings, audio samples, and their own voices.

The festival’s founder is radio host Wendy M. Levy, who is co-producing the event with Eric Gagne of Nova Arts, Stage 33 Live SynthFest organizer Joseph Conrad, and music software developer Chris Randall.

This festival traces the ley lines that map Vermont’s importance to the evolution and continuation of electronic music.

The Green Mountain State is home to the origins of electronic music.  The invention of the analog synthesizer was completed in Brattleboro.  Some 60 miles north, the Synclavier was developed in White River Junction.

Headlining the event are two acts: Philadelphia’s Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders and Guilford, Vermont’s Wet Tuna.

Charles Dodge, early composer of electronic and computer music, founder of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music, and long-time professor at Dartmouth College, will present a lecture on his work and play selections from some of his compositions.

Caldon Glover-Wessel, a Brattleboro-based doom industrial / Ambient musician, will give a presentation, “The Queer Roots of Industrial,” which will cover the early days of the industrial music scene of the 1970s/80s, and how it connects to today’s experimental music scenes.

Badweatherfriend, a southeastern Vermont duo comprised of Calvin Ray Moen and Wyatt Andrews, will perform their space opera, a work-in-progress titled “The Adventures of Space Guy.”

Musicians performing at Circuits in the Woods include: Glasspack, Burial Woods, Dave Seidel, Doc No, Chris Hinkle, MMMM, Scott Moore, Thomas Nöla, Rolf Parker-Houghton, C Puffer, Chris Randall, Trevor Robinson, Verlectric (The Vermen’s synth-pop spin-off), Countermoon, and members of The Vermont Synthesizer Society.  Please note: this lineup is subject to change; more information, schedule / specific venues will be forthcoming.

By featuring electronic musicians from Vermont and northern New England — and by welcoming performers from further afield — we’re reminding participants that Vermont is not frozen in time.

We are not an anachronism, puttering along behind everyone else.

We are not all bumpkins plucking banjos in a shed.

Well, some of us are.

And some of us are running those banjos through effects pedals to create sounds one wouldn’t expect from the instrument.

Join us.  It’ll be fun.

Schedule coming soon!

Secure a very limited day pass for $40, which will grant you access to all the music across multiple venues! Entry will be available to individual venues with a regular ticket price, or you can also pay what you can if that works better for you! We invite you to join us in this collective experience of radical joy!

To help support our neighbors, we are conducting a food drive during the festival.  All attendees are encouraged to bring one or more non-perishable food items to any of our five venues.  All food donations will go to FoodWorks in Brattleboro.  Thank you for being a kind community member!