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Cube Fest 2022: Sounds Cubed 1
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, August 20, 2022
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
General Public: $10.00 Virginia Tech Students: Free

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

An evening of Afrofuturist music with a focus on live performance and the human voice, this concert features inspiring live performances by Jupiter Blue (David and Tara Middleton, who are also long-time members of the Sun Ra Arkestra). Also included is Yvette Janine Jackson’s Aboard the Alliance, a fixed media work inspired by Samuel R. Delany’s science fiction novel, Babel-17, which explores the relationship between language, cognitive behavior, and agency over one’s own body, and As It Should Be, created by Moksha Black (a King Britt project featuring Roba El-Essawy).

In El-Essawy’s words, “The song was written the moment I heard it. It felt like rays of light, streaming beams; wanting to bathe and bask in it. Moksha Black is transformative.”

Admission is $10.00 for the general public and free for VT students.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=5AE41D2C-8947-4457-A74B-27D5CB4D2D9C.

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/.