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Cube Fest 2022: Sounds in Focus 1
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, August 20, 2022
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents "Sounds in Focus 1" as part of Cube Fest 2022 on Saturday, August 20, 2022 inside the Perform Studio within The Moss Arts Center.

The music in "Sounds in Focus 1" addresses the environment, the divine, and pure abstraction. Dexter van der Schyff’s Waterfall is built from hydrophonic recordings taken from bodies of water on Mount Royal, Montreal. Roxanne Turotte’s Bestiaire is a tribute to living beings, working with the sounds of animals, transported to a sonic world of the imagination.

Ryne Siesky’s …grind… focuses on a threat to environmental sustainability: the plastic cup. The work is created entirely from a one-second recording of a plastic coffee pod hitting the floor. João Pedro Oliveira’s N'vi'ah explores the divine and prophetic. N'vi'ah is an Old Testament word meaning "prophetess." The concert concludes with Simon Le Boggit’s 48 Steps, an abstract work generated from chaos, repetition, and mutation.

Admission is free.

Cube Fest 2022 is a series of concerts featuring music that moves around, above, and through the listener. Impossible to re-create at home listening on a stereo system or with headphones, these works were created specifically for the Cube’s world-leading audio system, complete with over 140 loudspeakers. Presenting the latest innovations in sound and musical composition, Virginia Tech’s immersive music festival offers a sonic adventure that can only be properly experienced in one place in the entire world — the Cube.

This year’s Cube Fest celebrates immersive Afrofuturist music with works from leading artists selected from an international pool of submissions. Presented by the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology and the Moss Arts Center, the festival runs from Friday, Aug. 19, through Sunday, Aug. 21, with events taking place in the Cube and Perform Studio, located in the Moss Arts Center at 190 Alumni Mall.

An ideology examining the past and the future through a Black cultural lens, Afrofuturism connects African diaspora culture with science and technology. Cube Fest 2022 features works by Afrofuturist artists Jupiter Blue, King Britt, Yvette Janine Jackson, and Sea Novaa, and includes an evening-long concert, “The Other Wakanda,” presented by Stephen James Taylor.

Many of the events are free and all events are free for Virginia Tech students.

For more information, visit: https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/08/mac-cubefest22.html or https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/cube-fest-2022.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/.