The University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music presents TechnoSonics XVII, Thursday October 20th through Saturday October 22nd.

TechnoSonics is an annual themed festival that showcases digital music and intermedia, and brings high profile outside performers and composers to collaborate with UVA composers and faculty performers. Produced by the the Composition and Computer Technologies Program in the Department of Music.

This year, the TechnoSonics Festival presents a series of concerts and broadcasts celebrating Transmission in music. The featured festival concerts in Old Cabell Hall and at the Second Street Gallery will feature electronic and computer music at UVA streamed live to the web.  This year’s theme of transmission facilitates community building with new and diverse populations.

TechnoSonics also welcomes guest artists Anna Friz, Miller Puckette, Shiau-uen Ding, and Susan Francher as well as our own performance faculty, the Albemarle Ensemble, the Rivanna String Quartet, and the Jazz Ensemble.

The University of Virginia (UVA) Music Department has been a leader in music technology innovation for almost 100 years. The first Chair of the Music Department, Arthur Fickenscher was an electronic music instrument inventor who developed a new interface for musical expression called the Polytone. Fickensher joined the faculty of UVA in 1918 and became the Chair of Music in 1920 when the Department was formed. In 1967, UVA Professor Donald MacInnis, a student of Milton Babbitt and Vladimir Ussachevsky, created one of the first computer music languages, MUSIGOL, in consultation with Max Mathews at Bell Labs and UVa Engineering Faculty. In the 1970s the VEMS (Virginia Electronic Music Studio) supported work by students and faculty, resulting in UVA’s first substantial contributions to electronic music composition. Founded in 1987 by Judith Shatin, the Virginia Center for Computer Music (VCCM), housed in Old Cabell Hall, ushered in a new focus on computer music for UVA.

Out of these innovations, the Composition and Computer Technologies (CCT) Program launched in 2002 along with the first Music Ph.D. in the state of Virginia. CCT is unique in its focus on a combined approach to composition and technological research. In addition, CCT draws on its sister UVA programs, the innovative Critical and Comparative Studies (CCS) program, and a diverse Performance program. Today, a team of UVA Music faculty including Judith Shatin, Matthew Burtner, Ted Coffey, Luke Dahl, Noel Lobley, Peter Bussigel and I-Jen Fang along with CCT Technical Director Travis Thatcher collaborate to build a unique climate of creative and technical research around composition and computer technologies.

See Full Festival Schedule Below:

TechnoSonics XVII Transmission: WTJU (91.1FM) Shows

Wednesday, 10/19/16 | 7:00pm

Friday, 10/21/16 | 1:00am

As part of the TechnoSonics XVII Transmission Festival, Matthew Burtner and Kyle Chattleton will kick off the festival with a special TechnoSonics broadcast from WTJU on October 19th from 7-9pm. There will be a 2nd broadcast on October 21st at 1am with Transmission Listener, Anna Friz. Don’t forget to tune your radios to 91.1FM to listen to these special broadcasts!

 TechnoSonics XVII Transmission: Transmission of Place

Thursday, 10/20/16 | 8:00pm | Old Cabell Hall | Free

As part of the TechnoSonics XVII Transmissions Festival, there will be a concert in Old Cabell Hall onThursday, October 20th at 8pm. This performance will feature Elliot Grabil, Matthew Burtner, Judith Shatin, Kiki Keren-Hess, Chris Luna, and Rachel Devorah-Trapp.

TechnoSonics XVII Transmission: Radio is Not a Container

Friday, 10/21/16 | 3:30pm | 107 Old Cabell Hall | Free

As part of the TechnoSonics XVII Transmission Festival, Anna Friz will be giving a colloquium in Room 107 in Old Cabell Hall entitled “Radio is Not a Container”. This talk is sure to intrigue all members of the community. You surely won’t want to miss this colloquium!

TechnoSonics XVII Transmission: Transmission of Time

Friday, 10/21/16 | 8:00pm | Old Cabell Hall | Free

As part of the TechnoSonics XVII Transmission Festival, there will be a concert in Old Cabell Hall on Friday, October 21st at 8pm. This concert will include performances from Anna Friz, Luke Dahl, Peter Bussigel, Travis Thatcher, Max Tfirn, Zhen Wang as well as the New Music Ensemble.

TechnoSonics XVII Transmission: See/Hear Transmission

Saturday, 10/22/16 | 4:00pm | 2nd Street Gallery | Free

Located at 115 2nd St. SE in Charlottesville, there will be a concert at the 2nd Street Gallery on Saturday, October 22nd at 4pm as part of the TechnoSonics XVII Transmission Festival. This concert will include performances from Luke Dahl, Ryan Maguire, Jon Bellona, Ben Luca Robertson, and Alex Christie.

TechnoSonics XVII Transmission: Interactive Software Design for Pluton

Sunday, 10/23/16 | 1:00pm | Old Cabell Hall Rm. B11 | Free

As part of the TechnoSonics XVII Transmission Festival, Miller Puckette will be giving a talk in Old Cabell Hall Room B11 on Sunday, October 23rd at 1pm. Puckette is the Associate Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego where he has been since 1994.

TechnoSonics XVII Transmission: Interplanetary Transmissions and Pluto

Monday, 10/24/16 | 8:00pm | Old Cabell Hall | Free

To end the TechnoSonics XVII Transmission Festival there will be a concert in Old Cabell Hall on Monday, October 24th at 8pm. This concert will include performances from Shiau-uen Ding in addition to Miller Puckette. You won’t want to miss this closing performance of our annual TechnoSonics Festival.

Supported by the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for the Arts.