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Cube Fest 2022: Digging in the Crates: “The Sankofa Tape”
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, August 19, 2022
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 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 Digging in the Crates: “The Sankofa Tape” as part of Cube Fest 2022 on Friday, August 19, 2022.

Experience an unforgettable spatialized hip-hop music event created by Virginia Tech students, faculty, and community members. VTDITC: Hip-Hop Studies at Virginia Tech (#VTDITC), the university’s student-driven hip-hop arts community of practice, created The Sankofa Tape to represent generations of Black experiences of Virginia Tech community members—past, present, and future. Stories, soon-to-be folktales, are shared through recordings crafted specifically to be spatialized in the Cube. This sensational experience includes a spectrum of frequencies and movements, which engage with boom bap beats stored on hard drives and computer-programmed spatial orchestration. Rich with Afrofuturism themes and Black history testimonies, The Sankofa Tape provides a one-of-a-kind multi-dimensional representation of Black experiences as well as a blueprint for future realities.

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=7A71D565-FB13-4F35-ADE4-5F862E04DEB7.

Note: This performance contains adult language.

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/.