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New Music + Technology Festival

The Virginia Tech New Music + Technology Festival is a biannual, multi-day event celebrating experimentalism, new music, performance, multimedia, and interdisciplinary research at the forefront of innovation. 

Founded in 2021 and directed by Kyle Hutchins, D.M.A., assistant professor of practice in the School of Performing Arts, the festival features professional concerts, listening lounges, lectures, technical demonstrations, student works, and installations.

Events are held across campus in venues such as the Cube, Perform Studio, and Sandbox; Squires Student Center’s Perspective Gallery and Recital Salon; and the Creativity + Innovation District Living-Learning Community’s Assembly and Performance Hall.

The festival highlights diverse disciplines, including music, theater, cinema, dance, visual art, creative coding, computer science, neuroscience, molecular biology, robotics, and cybersecurity.

Pictures courtesy of Rodney Kimbangu

Pictures courtesy of Rodney Kimbangu

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Highlights

  • 24 events

  • 120+ works performed

  • 36 World Premiere Performances

  • 32+ Visiting Artists (composers, performers, researchers, artists, etc) from around the world

  • Dozens of guest lectures, ICAT playdates, and seminar presentations by visiting artists across disciplines throughout the university

  • 5 colleges at Virginia Tech represented in programming

  • Hosted Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) @40 Constellation Event (peer-reviewed national conference event)

  • Hosted 8 Cube Residencies for creating new work

  • Partnership with the Jessie S. Yee Prize, which commissions a new work each year for faculty performance and provides prizes for student compositions (3 commissions and 9 student prizes to date)