<div class="description mb-5"><a href="https://spamnewmediafestival.com/">The Spam New Media Festival</a> began in 2023 with activations at Freeway Park (and collaborating art institutions) by the University of Washington’s Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) Ph.D. candidates.
<p><em>"In classical music, a fugue is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation, which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition."</em></p>
<p class="p1">Digital Arts and Experimental Media presents Daniel Peterson’s latest music composition<i>, Into the Air</i>, which explores the ephemeral nature of sound and the paradox of being. Inspired in part by Jorge Luis Borges' <em>Everything and Nothing</em>, the 80-minute piece embodies both presence and absence, holding within it the traces of countless influences while remaining transient and unimaginable; idiosyncratic and universal.
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Composer John Chowning is considered one of the pioneers of Computer Music. His contributions to this field, such as the invention of FM Digital Synthesis, had a strong cultural impact in the worlds of both classical and popular music. His invention allowed the production of one of the most popular digital synthesizers, the Yamaha DX7, which sold millions of units in the 1980s and was used by virtually every band from that era.
Yo-Yo Ma pairs repertoire from the center of his musical firmament with reflections on how it has shaped his thinking about art, human nature and our search for meaning.
A dynamic collective that combines the strength and power of a great orchestra with the sensitivity of superb chamber music.
Pianist Min Kwon paints a sonic and visual picture of her adopted country in all of its sprawling complexity, and ultimately looks for the beauty at the core of the American experiment and its credo of e pluribus unum (out of many, one).
Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with Dances to American Music: Soul of America , a captivating performance by one of the country’s leading dance companies
Seamlessly blending illusion, acrobatics, magic and whimsy, MOMIX sends audiences flying down the rabbit hole in Moses Pendleton’s ALICE , inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland .