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Cube Fest 2022: Listening Lounge - Spatialization of Sun Ra's Space Is the Place
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Sunday, August 21, 2022
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 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 "Listening Lounge - Spatialization of Sun Ra's Space Is the Place" as part of Cube Fest 2022 on Sunday, August 21, 2022.

The album Space Is the Place holds a central position in Sun Ra’s vast body of work, aligning with Sun Ra’s personal mythology as a visitor from Saturn and with the central role of outer space in Afrofuturistic thinking. The 21-minute-long title track Space Is the Place is anthemic, celebratory, and absolutely demands more than the two loudspeakers of a stereo system. At Cube Fest 2022, Space Is the Place will be experienced in a newly created spatial interpretation that makes full use of the 140 loudspeakers of the Cube.

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=D54DDDAA-1050-4DC7-86B1-FEBCCC430415.

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/.