Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Organizations: Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Time: 8:00 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
Description:
The School of Performing Arts and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech continues their 2024 Fall New Music + Technology Festival on Wednesday, October 2, 2024 inside The Cube within The Moss Arts Center.
The the New Music + Technology Festival showcases the ever-broadening field of music technology, focusing on new compositions and performance systems. Since its inception in 2021, the New Music + Technology Festival has presented multi- and interdisciplinary performances while furthering research at the nexus of music, theatre, cinema, dance, visual art, creative coding, computer science, neuroscience, molecular biology, robotics, and cyber security.
Ross Karre, associate professor of percussion at Oberlin College and Conservatory, will be featured on the second night of the festival, and is a “leading figure in contemporary percussion in the United States,” says festival director Kyle Hutchins. A longtime member and former artistic director of the renowned International Contemporary Ensemble, Karre will present his evening-length work, "Styrophone," which will be adapted for the Cube. The piece is a multimedia performance which includes live electronic music, vibrating resonance sculptures, and video projection with mapped imaging. The performance utilizes objects that are intended for the landfill and endows them with a creative second life as both sonic and visual art pieces.
Admission is free though reservations are required due to limited seating.
To make a reservation, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=E6E1AFAB-E5ED-460F-A828-8F62F043B067.
The festival will run October 1st-4th at the Creativity and Innovation District living-learning community and in The Cube within the Moss Arts Center and will showcase innovations in the field of music technology and spatial audio, including a new international partnership founded by the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). All performances on this festival are completely free, but all located within The Cube require reservations.
The Creativity and Innovation District LLC Building is located at 185 Kent Street in Blacksburg, VA on the campus of Virginia Tech.
For more information, visit: https://icat.vt.edu/events/2024/10/new-music---technology-festival.html or https://sopa.vt.edu/events/performances/2024/10/sopa-newmusictechfestivalfall2024.html or https://www.facebook.com/VTperformingarts or https://www.instagram.com/hokiesonstage/.
Want to hear the latest on what's happening with local events in the New River Valley?
Click here to Sign-up for our Email Newsletter.
Also join NextThreeDays on Facebook and Twitter.
Click here to Sign-up for our Email Newsletter.
Also join NextThreeDays on Facebook and Twitter.
