Department of Music

Technosonics: Immersion

The Technosonics 2024 Immersion Festival explores paths of practice, product, experience, and performance that can surround, consume, inhabit, or otherwise envelop the mind, body, or world. In sound, we often encounter immersion through multi-channel surround sound projection, in virtual environments experienced through binaural audio, through environmental ambiance, or through real-time extrapolation of multimodal spaces through human improvisation. Immersion might also refer to an environment or space recast as artistic conception; or it could be a way of living, a state of mind, a political framework, a form of order, uplifting, suffocating, engaging, or otherwise. Technosonics 2024 Immersion invites you to Immerse Yourself!

This year’s festival will take place Thursday, October 17^th - Saturday, October 19^th 2024 and features special guest artist Rohan Chander (aka BAKUDI SCREAM). All events showcase new works of electronic music, intermedia, and sound art by the faculty, staff, and graduate students of the CCT program. All events are free and open to the public. Here is a link to the concert programs.

ROHAN CHANDER

Rohan Chander (a.k.a BAKUDI SCREAM) is an electronic musician and artist based in Los Angeles. Described as “hypersensory” (Washington Post), “remarkably alive” (The Wire Magazine), and of “transcendent metamorphosis” (I Care If You Listen), Rohan’s work explores gothic, science-fiction storytelling as rewriting of personal and shared histories. Performance space collapses into BAKUDI SCREAM’s various avatars of the Architect Prince, somnus, HINDOO, and FUTURANGEL through pursuit of the romantic and gruesome– tales of hackers and lovelorn heroes breaking and restructuring within new ecologies. Positionality is not a constant but a perpetually mutating agent, driving the work of BAKUDI SCREAM to explore the forces behind shared space and the glitches that flower intimacy.

EVENTS: 

Technosonics Immersion: Installations
Thursday, October 17— 7pm
Ruffin Hall, room 103 (Ruffin Hall is located at 179 Culbreth Road)
Free
A presentation of immersive multimedia installations and installation-performances by members of the Composition & Computer Technologies community.

Technosonics Immersion: Colloquium
Friday, October 18 — 3:30 pm
107 Old Cabell Hall
Free
Technosonics guest artist Rohan Chander will present on his creative process and use of technology in his work.

Technosonics Immersion: Concert I - Program
Friday, October 18 — 8pm
Visible Records, 1740 Broadway Street
Free
A concert of electronic music, intermedia performances, and immersive art-making practices in action. This concert features special guest artist Rohan Chander (aka BAKUDI SCREAM).

Technosonics Immersion: Concert 2 - Program
Saturday, October 19 — 8pm
Old Cabell Hall
Free

A concert of surround sound electronic music, video, and electroacoustic performances. This concert also features special guest artist Rohan Chander (aka BAKUDI SCREAM).

LOCATIONS:
Ruffin Hall is located at 179 Culbreth Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903. Nearby parking is available at Culbreth Garage. 

Visible Records is located at 1740 Broadway St, Charlottesville, VA 22902.

Old Cabell Hall is located on the south end of UVA’s historic lawn, directly opposite the Rotunda (map). Parking is available in the central grounds parking garage on Emmet Street, in the C1 parking lot off McCormick Rd, and in the parking lots at the UVA Corner. Handicap parking is available in the small parking lot adjacent to Bryan Hall.

All programs are subject to change.

For more information, please contact the UVA Department of Music at 434.924.3052 or music@virginia.edu.

Add to your Google Calendar:

Technosonics Installations:  10/17/24 7pm, Ruffin Hall

Technosonics Colloquium:  10/18/24, 3:30pm, 107 Old Cabell Hall

Concert on 10/18/24 at 8pm, Visible Records 

Concert on 10/19/24 at 8pm in Old Cabell Hall