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Datum: Thu, 15 Jan 2026
Betreff: [ak-discourse] WG: Call for Submissions — CUBE Fest 2026 (Spoken Words)
Cube Fest 2026 – Spoken Words
August 21-23, 2026
Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia, USA)
Cube Fest 2026, taking place on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus during August 21-23, invites proposals for immersive music, poetry, art, and sound created for concert presentation on high-density loudspeaker arrays (HDLAs). Live performance for HDLA systems, including interaction with acoustic or electro-acoustic instruments, will also be considered. While remaining open to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, Cube Fest 2026 will bring a special focus to the theme of Spoken Words. We encourage submissions that resonate with the Spoken Words theme.
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline – February 20, 2026
- Notification of results – March 13, 2026
- Attendance confirmation deadline – March 27, 2026
Venues
Cube Fest 2026 will present concert programs in two venues: The Cube (134.4.2 channel HDLA) and Perform Studio (88.4 channel HDLA). This year we introduce a new category of presentation: the Tesseract Jukebox. This program will present on-demand performances of multichannel music on the Tesseract, a nearfield performance system that will be installed at the Center for the Arts in the same building as the Cube and Perform Studio. The Tesseract will have a minimum of 8 loudspeakers, with specifications soon to be announced.
Submission Guidelines
For works that are already in multichannel format, submission specifications will follow. We also welcome submissions that center Spoken Words in the context of immersive sound, but that have not yet been technically realized in a multichannel format. In such cases, we will consider collaborating with the submitting artist(s) to present a multichannel version of their work.
More information, submission specifications, and application forms can be found here.
Anthony Kwame Harrison
Alumni Distinguished Professor
Associate Chair, Department of Sociology
Virginia Tech