CAST Creators in Performance
Description
March 24, 2026
Doors @ 7:00 | Performances @ 7:30
FREE and open to the public
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dadaLab - 2008 Alexander Ave. Austin, TX.
CAST continues its week of events with CAST Creators in Performance, an evening dedicated to the artists and ensembles who help shape the creative foundation of the program. This special event brings together leading figures in Austin’s experimental music and new media communities for a night of forward-thinking sound, live performance, and contemporary composition.
The evening features a new realtime audio-visual work by Kyle Evans, whose art explores the relationship between technology, sound, and immersive visual media.
Composer Aida Shirazi presents work that draws on timbre, language, and contemporary chamber practice, offering a nuanced perspective on acoustic and electroacoustic sound.
SoundMap Ensemble joins the program with innovative contemporary music rooted in community engagement, new work development, and interdisciplinary collaboration. SoundMap Ensemble works to be performed:
communication rot from attic rot, ephemera spasms (2026)
Tanner JonesTime & Money (2004), Pierre Jodlowski
Luciano Medina, soloistTreatise by Cornelius Cardew (1967)
The night also includes a performance by Line Upon Line Percussion, the Austin-based trio known for its adventurous programming and close partnerships with living composers. They will be performing the work Aves Machinatae (2025) composed by Aida Shirazi.
Together, these creators represent the artistic ethos at the heart of CAST. Their performances offer audiences a wide-ranging look at the practices and perspectives that inform this year’s international cohort of CAST artists.
Learn more about CAST, more events, and the composers and the visual artists participating in the 2026 season here: https://dadageek.com/cast
ABOUT CAST:
CAST (Contemporary Art & Sound Technologies) is a platform for artists working at the intersection of sound, music, and visual media — dedicated to bold experimentation and boundary-pushing interdisciplinary work.
For the inaugural 2026 season, selected composers, visual artists, and multimedia creators have been paired into collaborative teams, spending months developing new work together. Their efforts culminate in a single performance on Saturday, March 28 at dadaLab.
Throughout CAST week, audiences will experience performances and presentations from artists across the experimental sound and visual media community — building toward that final night.
Presented in partnership with UT Austin's College of Fine Arts, the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies, the Butler School of Music, SoundMap, Line Upon Line Percussion, dadageek, and dadaLab.
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Performances
Aida Shirazi
Aida Shirazi , Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. Shirazi’s music is described as ”unfolding with deliberation” by The New York Times, “well-made” and “affecting” by The New Yorker, and “unusually creative” by San Francisco Classical Voice. in her works for solo instruments, voice, ensemble, orchestra, and electronics, she mainly focuses on timbre for organizing structures inspired by Persian and English languages and literature. Shirazi’s music has been featured at festivals and concert series, including Manifeste, Wien Modern, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Mostly Mozart, OutHear New Music Week, MATA, Marlboro Music Festival, Direct Current, Taproot, and Tehran Contemporary Music Festival in venues such as Maison de la Radio France, Radialsystem Berlin, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Kennedy Center.
Kyle Evans
Kyle Evans is a new media artist, sound designer, educator, and performer. He is a founding board member, Managing Director, and instructor at the tech-art educational non-profit dadageek, board member and composer of the sound-art collective Rolling Ryot, co-founder of the immersive art studio dadaLab, and Assistant Professor of Immersive Media in the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at the University of Texas in Austin. Focusing on the intersection of art and technology, his work commonly explores concepts of hacking, technological failure, and digital media artifacts. He has produced and presented a wide range of tech-art performance and new media installation work throughout North America and Europe at venues such as MUTEK San Francisco, Transmediale in Berlin, the International Computer Music Conference at Columbia University, The Dallas Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Vancouver New Music Festival, and the GLI.TC/H festival in Chicago. His writings and artworks have been presented in several academic and popular publications including the Leonardo Music Journal, Computer Music Magazine, Neural Magazine, and Popular Science Magazine.
Line Upon Line Percussion
Formed in 2009 at The University of Texas at Austin, line upon line exists to foster musical creativity through championing living composers. The Austin-based group has premiered hundreds of new works for percussion and has worked with composers in residencies at Harvard University, Stanford University, Cal Poly, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Texas at Austin, Kunstuniversität Graz, University College Dublin, University of Huddersfield, University of Liverpool, City University of London and Monash University (Melbourne). Internationally, line upon line has performed at New Music Dublin, the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (Australia), Open Circuit Festival (Liverpool), Novalis Festival (Osijek), in Basel (Hochschule für Musik), Berlin (Unerhörte Musik), Cologne (Loft Köln), Freiburg (Hochschule für Musik), Graz (Open Music), Koper (Koper Biennale) and London (City, University of London), and has taught at conservatories in Melbourne, Sydney, Cork (MTU School of Music), London (Guildhall School of Music & Drama), Manchester (Royal Northern College of Music) and Tours (Le pôle Aliénor). Nationally, the group has performed and taught in twenty-six different states, at two Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, the Festival of New American Music (Sacramento) and The Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT). line upon line consists of Cullen Faulk, Matthew Teodori and emeritus member, Adam Bedell.
SoundMap Ensemble
SoundMap ensemble is a contemporary music group focused on promoting, developing and producing creative sound projects. We use creative spaces as a way to empower communities by art, by promoting artists, creating new works, developing the concert experience, and building resilient, interconnected communities. Based in Austin, SoundMap invests in New Music through Performance, Recordings, Commissions and Educational programs. Our programming focuses on the issues of our time, providing opportunities to underrepresented communities and young artists, and connecting local, national and international production. This range of activities impacts the general public, musicians, audiophiles, contemporary artists, and youth. Our goal is through creativity to build a vision of the future.
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