NextThreeDays: Event Display

Cube Fest 2022: Sounds Cubed II
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Sunday, August 21, 2022
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
General Public: $10.00 Virginia Tech Students: Free

Sponsored Content:

Feature Your Company/Event Here

Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents "Sounds Cubed II" as part of Cube Fest 2022 on Sunday, August 21, 2022 inside The Cube within The Moss Arts Center.

Long-time Cube Fest contributor Chris Coleman returns with sunyata, scored for a mixture of Chinese and Western instruments. sunyata is the concept of "not self," of awareness in which perception and feeling cease, of meditating to the loss of self-awareness. James Bagshaw’s Helicopter Synths explores the sensation of overhead flight, making good use of the 20 ceiling-mounted loudspeakers in the Cube, while Christophe Lengelé’s Parmegiani meets SuperCollider 1 transports biological life processes to music with a focus on the effects of a multi-channel audio environment.

Nikos Stavropoulos’s Karst Grotto explores analogies between geological spatial structures (karst is a particular topography created by the dissolution of soluble rock types) and processes and spatial audio experiences. In Orestis Karamanlis’s playful Toys, most of the sounds originate from recordings of toys, organized into spatial/rhythmic configurations. Recorded for specifically this Cube performance, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier’s Exploded Views: sound machines, a cubic perspective features 134 recordings from a modular synthesizer.

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=D9BED48F-AC34-4AEA-9674-35B327712F19.

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.

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/.