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.
Past events
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April 9-13, 2024
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September 25 - 27, 2023
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May 1-3, 2023
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December 5-7, 2022
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May 2-4, 2022
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December 6-8, 2021
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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)