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Cube Fest 2022: “The Other Wakanda”
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, August 19, 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 “The Other Wakanda” as part of Cube Fest 2022 on Friday, August 19, 2022.

In the Marvel universe, the fictional African country of Wakanda evolved into a high-tech nation all on its own, free from outside European or Arabic influences. While working on The Black Panther animated series in 2009, composer Stephen James Taylor wondered what Indigenous classical music in Wakanda would sound like? It would definitely have developed its own tuning systems and unique frequency relationships. In Music from the Other Wakanda the composer explores possible answers to these questions in a spellbinding surround sound evening of transcendent tonality from a parallel dimension.

Taylor?has a unique musical identity. His Afrofuturist style represents a blend of classical, rock, blues, gospel, world music, homemade instruments, and avant-garde. Music From the Other Wakanda premiered in 2019 at the Glendale College Planetarium.

His past projects include providing music for Richard Tanne’s 2020 Amazon film,?Chemical Hearts, and?the?Star Wars Cantina at Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge (2019),?the first microtonal music ever in rotation at Disneyland). He has composed scores for many of Robert Townsend’s films, such as?The Making of the Five Heartbeats (2017), Of Boys and Men (2008), and?Holiday Heart (2000).

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=8480DC2E-B54A-4660-82AF-68BC3698FF2B.

Note: May contain 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.

An ideology examining the past and the future through a Black cultural lens, Afrofuturism connects African diaspora culture with science and technology.

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/.