Here’s a roundup of education briefs from around Southwest and Southside:
Virginia Tech begins music/technology festival
Virginia Tech is hosting a three-day New Music + Technology Festival that will celebrate the conjunction of experimental music and originative technology and will showcase a variety of performance styles from dance to multimedia to live coding. The event runs May 1-3.
An example of what’s happening: Clare Suess, graduate student in music with a focus in creative technologies, designed and fabricated her own instruments that the Virginia Tech New Music Ensemble will use during the performance. Suess made the instruments at the Creativity and Innovation District’s makerspaces using a variety of processes.
She used her skills in welding, laser-cutting, and coding to work the CNC plasma table, which uses a plasma torch to cut out shapes that have…
