Virginia Tech's annual New Music + Technology Festival begins Tuesday.
The Moss Arts Center and Virginia Tech's Creativity and Innovation District will host the five-day event at several venues including Cube and Sandbox. All shows are free, but registration is required.
The university's own Linux-based laptop band, L2Ork, will kick off the festival at 7 p.m. in the lobby of the Creativity and Innovation District, featuring technology-created projections and a collaboration with Argentinian artist UTREF.
Other performances include:
- An original piece for live drums and spatial audio by Otu Kojo, an African drummer in the School of Performing Arts, and Charles Nichols, associate professor of composition and creative technology. This is one of the events scheduled for Wednesday at the Cube.
- Percussion associate professor Annie Stevens and adjunct dance professor Rachel Lu will also perform “Memory Palace” at the Cube on Wednesday.
- The Society for Electroacoustic Music of America (SEAMUS) is scheduled to meet at the Cube on Thursday. According to festival director Kyle Hutchins, SEAMUS is the leading electroacoustic society in the United States and is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
- Virginia Tech will begin its first ArtX Presents at the Cube on Friday. This is a collaboration with McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology. According to the university, ArtX stands for art, research and technology exchange.
- The festival moves to Moss' Sandbox Studios and concludes with four performances of “Epiphany Machine” on Saturday. The piece was created by Scotty Hardwig and Zach Duerr, faculty members in the College of Architecture, Art, and Design, and Julia Basso, assistant professor of behavioral and community sciences. The performance aims to use wearable biometrics to investigate the relationship between movement and brain activity, the university said.
Check the schedule, reserve tickets, and learn more at /sopa.vt.edu.
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