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<p><strong><i>The Cycle of Sound</i></strong></p>

<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>

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<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.

<p><b>DXARTS Winter Concert </b></p>
<p><b><i>A la recherche d’une musique concrète </i></b></p>
<p><b><i>75 years of acousmatic music</i></b></p>
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<p><strong>PROGRAM</strong></p>
<p>Carolina Marín + Esteban Agosin - <em><span class="s1">ARRURRÚ, surviving to change the skin </span></em><span class="s1">(2023)</span></p>
<div><span face="Avenir-Book">Laura Luna Castillo + Emily Schoen Branch - <em>Assemblage Against Entropy </em>(2023)</span></div>

<p><span><a href="people/chari-glogovac-smith" title="CHARI ">CHARI</a> presents their new interdisciplinary work, MUTATE, an archival themed, installation based, media performance work. With the growing trend of technological advancement underlining and underwriting the world, a world where big data trains the algorithms that train us, MUTATE embraces culturally informed small data, employing creative methods for preserving histories, and asking questions about what of ourselves might we encode into the future.

<p><span>An evening of software performances and human-machine communions, drawing lines between the worlds of immersive sound, performing arts, and experimental extended reality. The familiar, the bearable chaos and illusions of </span><span>order unfold across technologically mediated hyper-realities, temporalities, and mnemonic worlds. Performances where interactions and reactions occur across choreographies and spatial arrangements, binding the virtual with the real in unexpected knots and impossible behaviors. </span></p>