Cube Fest 2026

Friday, August 21

Tesseract Jukebox

10 AM-6 PM

Sandbox
Free

This ongoing intimate installation plays a loop of curated spatialized audio compositions. Walk in and out freely, or chose a specific place to sit and listen.

Works

• New Ear ::SPATIAL: Otherwise Possibilities of Conversation
• Peter Otto: A-Ronne Remix
• Anthony T. Marasco, 'Sandro R. Barros, and Alexis Bacon: Host Your Ghosts

Studio Experiences I
5 PM

Perform Studio
Free

Explore programs of curated works without live performers in an intimate listening environment.

Works

• Paul Rudy: Time Seeds: A Prairie Cosmogram
• Paul Koonce: To Think of Rain

Sonic Performances I
7 PM

Cube
Free; registration required

These programs of curated works involve live performances.

Works

• Ka Hei Cheng: Phantom of Utopia II: The Convergence
• Brian Lindgren: Two tales from the shadows of the grid
• Derek Drudge: Topology
• Yohta Kitagawa and Nathan Petree: Spoken Words

Playback Experiences I
9 PM

Cube
Free; registration required

Experience programs of curated works without live performers. Enjoy from seating or a beanbag chair on the floor.

Works

• Arun Chandra: Seven Poems by David Wolach
• Zac Dulkin: How to tear yourself apart
• Jeremy Makkonen: Dalle de Verre
• Benjamin Shirey: I am the space...
• Steve Ashby: Mmabolela
• Stephen Ruppenthal and Gary Weisberg: Say the Word

Saturday, August 22

Tesseract Jukebox
10 AM-6 PM

Sandbox
Free

This ongoing intimate installation plays a loop of curated spatialized audio compositions. Walk in and out freely, or chose a specific place to sit and listen.

Works

• New Ear ::SPATIAL: Otherwise Possibilities of Conversation
• Peter Otto: A-Ronne Remix
• Anthony T. Marasco, 'Sandro R. Barros, and Alexis Bacon: Host Your Ghosts

Earworms and Auditory Explorations
David F. Green
1 PM

Perform Studio
Free

How do the works in Cube Fest 2026 influence our thoughts about audio technology and interpretive practice? This interactive discussion highlights examples of works that push our interpretive capacities through multisensory approaches to critical listening and humanistic inquiry.

Studio Experiences II
5 PM

Perform Studio
Free

Explore programs of curated works without live performers in an intimate listening environment.

Works

• Chris DeLaurenti: why that particular word
• Peter Fedak: Long Distance
• Lee Gilboa: There Were No Such Words in My World
• Michael Schumacher: Andrews Variations
• Anna Rubin: Shards of Sappho
• Timothy McDunn: Be Still
• Sarah Naqvi: Walid

Sonic Performances II
7 PM

Cube
Free; registration required

These programs of curated works involve live performances.

Works

• Paulo C. Chagas and Stacy Fraser: The Skin of the Earth: Fragments, for soprano, live electronics, and AI-driven visuals
• Henrik von Coler and zl!ster: One Week
• M.I. Devine: Miracle Whip
• Brandi Davidson: Bushido's Code: What Are Swords Made Of?

Playback Experiences II
9 PM

Cube
Free; registration required

Experience programs of curated works without live performers. Enjoy from seating or a beanbag chair on the floor.

Works

• Summer Tate: Clash of Tools
• Sam Wells: Seething Field: Imprint
• Redux (Mark Cetilia and Joe Cantrell): Limitation of Liability
• Peter Otto: Luminiferous Aether
• Wei Yang: rain contained, rain contains...
• Shahrzad Talebi: Watch the Only Way Home Disappear

Sunday, August 23

The Declaration of Independence: Spatial Audio Remix

1-2:30 PM

Installation (Tyechia Thompson)

2:30 PM

Audience Discussion (Sherri Craig)

Cube
Free

Using the acoustics of the historic rooms where the Declaration of Independence was drafted and debated, alongside recitations performed by contributors representing a range of ages, identities, and conditions, this installation transforms Jefferson’s version into a lively chorus. Experience a tapestry of overlapping voices, revisions, echoes, and silences that make the sounds of American freedom audible. Following the installation, join an audience discussion to engage with some of those whose voices you have heard.

Master Class | Where the Poem Lives: Spoken Word, Image, and Sound Brittney S. Harris
3 PM

Sandbox
Free; registration required

An immersive master class exploring spoken word poetry as an embodied practice, where language lives in the body through movement, breath, and spatial awareness. Participants are invited to experience poetry not only on the page or in the voice, but as something that moves through and lives within the body. Guided by immersive audio, rhythm, and repetition travel through the space and the body, shaping both physical and vocal expression.

Open to artists, students, educators, and community members, this session welcomes all levels of experience.

Playback Experiences III
7 PM

Cube
Free; registration required

Experience programs of curated works without live performers. Enjoy from seating or a beanbag chair on the floor.

Works

• Enrique Mendoza Mejia: Inner outer self-variance and my derranged disembodied voices
• Varun Kishore: Kraken
• Sanjay Majumder: Phrygian Orbit
• Wan Heo: Sacred Mountain II
• David Z. Durant: Vessel of Voices
• Woohun Joo: Two Texts/Two Voices
• Mahbod Shirvani: Palimpsest Frames

3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul
Spatial orchestration designed by Eric Lyon
9 PM

Cube
Free; registration required

3 Feet High and Rising, De La Soul’s debut album, landed in 1989, straight from Long Island (or possibly Mars, according to early conceptions of the record). The work instantiates the potentials of sampling, storytelling, and rapping with no sense of limits. The thematic richness and creative use of sampling is simply breathtaking and remains fresh as a daisy to modern ears. This visionary 1989 record was a harbinger of future network cultures, and its conception of the total availability of anything that can be sampled remains ahead of its time in 2026. The artistic triumph of the record is that with all its manifold innovations, it is incredibly fun to listen to — a testament to the ambition, talent, and playfulness of its creators.