New Music + Technology Festival

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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.

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Highlights

39 events over 10 festivals
Approx 200 works performed
48 World Premiere Performances
50+ Virginia Tech faculty participants
140+ student participants
Approx 100 Visiting Artists (composers, performers, researchers, artists, etc.) from around the world
5 colleges at Virginia Tech represented in programming
10 ICAT/Cube Residencies for creating new work for the festival
Dozens of guest lectures, ICAT playdates, and seminar presentations by visiting artists across disciplines throughout the university
Hosted Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) @40 Constellation Event (peer- reviewed national conference event, Spring 2024)
Partnership with the Jessie S. Yee Prize, which commissions a new work each year for faculty performance and provides prizes for student compositions (5 awarded to date)
Partnership with the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke to present concerts in Spring 2025