CAST: Premiere Night
Description
March 28, 2026
Doors @ 7:30 | Performances @ 8:00
FREE and open to the public
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dadaLab - 2008 Alexander Ave. Austin, TX.
CAST: Premiere Night is the culminating event of the inaugural CAST season, bringing together the full cohort of international artists selected to create new collaborative works for this special evening. Following a global call for submissions, the CAST panel chose six composers and six visual artists whose practices represent some of the most compelling directions in contemporary sound and visual media. Each composer was paired with a visual artist to form a collaborative team, and these pairs have spent months developing original works that receive their world premieres at this event.
The composers in this year’s cohort explore a wide range of contemporary musical approaches, including experimental composition, electronics and computer music, performance-driven work, and spatial audio. All musical works will be performed by either SoundMap Ensemble or Line Upon Line Percussion, two of Austin’s leading contemporary music groups and core creative partners of CAST.
The visual artists bring their own experimental perspectives, working with realtime digital performance, immersive visual design, code-based imagery, and generative AI techniques. Their work will be presented on the dadaLab immersive video wall, creating a unified environment where sound and image merge into a shared performance space.
Premiere Night features the debut of six new collaborative works by the following artist teams:
Stylianos Dimou & Britt Moseley (with SoundMap Ensemble)
Haeun Park & Krista Faist (with SoundMap Ensemble)
Rafael Godoi & David Sydiongco (with SoundMap Ensemble)
Carolina Carrizo & Jonathan Monaghan (with Line Upon Line)
Mathis Saunier & Shirley Steele (with Line Upon Line)
Shahrzad Talebi & Eric Theise (with Line Upon Line)
Together, these collaborations highlight the artistic vision at the heart of CAST. Premiere Night invites audiences into an evening of immersive performance, new artistic possibilities, and the future of contemporary audiovisual work.
Learn more about CAST, 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.
More CAST Events:
Me Mer Mo Monday CAST Takeover! (March 21, 2026)
CAST Creators in Performance (March 22, 2026)
Composers
Dr. Stylianos Dimou
Dr. Stylianos Dimou, an internationally acclaimed composer, music technologist, improviser, and conductor, is renowned for his contributions to acoustic and electroacoustic music. His accolades include the Award for Artistic Excellence from the Ulysses Network/IRCAM (2018-2019), 1st Prize in the Luigi Nono International Composition Competition, and 2nd Prize in the Martirano Awards. He began his studies in Composition at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pursued his master’s at Eastman School of Music as a Fulbright Scholar, and earned his DMA from Columbia University as a Dean’s Fellow. An alumnus of IRCAM’s Cursus program, he has taught at prestigious institutions including Columbia, Eastman, Hong Kong Baptist University, and the University of the Peloponnese (GR). Since September 2024, he has been serving as a Tenured Associate Professor of Composition at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, Norway.
Haeun Park
Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1997, Haeun Park is a composer and pianist. She is currently pursuing a postgraduate specialization cycle in composition at the Conservatory of Strasbourg, France, in the class of Daniel D’Adamo. She completed her Master’s degree at National High Conservatory of Music of Lyon, France, where she studied with David Chappuis. During her Master’s studies, she composed and presented an original opera as her graduate project, and received highest honors unanimously from the jury for her final recital, along with an excellent grade for her research project. A recipient of several prizes and scholarships, Haeun Park earned her Bachelor’s degree in composition from Hanyang University in Seoul, graduating top of her class. She also studied musicology at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Passionate about instruments and the voice, she has composed numerous orchestral and vocal works, and her music reflects a constant search for innovation and musical expression.
Rafael Godoi
Rafael Godoi has a MA degree in music composition at UFMG – Brazil. There, he studied composition with Rogério Vasconcelos, Oiliam Lanna and João Pedro Oliveira, who he also took classes of electronic music. At the end of 2019, he attended the CEME Festival with Meitar Ensemble, Philippe Leroux and Helmut Lachenmann. In 2022 he was an active participant at São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival and recently has participated as a fellow composer at the Vienna Summer Music Festival – Composers Forum having masterclasses with Irvine Arditti, Alexandra Karastoyanova and Tina Tallon. Also, Rafael had masterclasses with Mauro Lanza at the Divertimento Ensemble Academy in 2023, having his piece “ruína y leveza” premiered at the occasion. His music has been performed by Ana Claudia Assis, Nadav Lev, Paulo Rosa, Quarteto L’Arianna, PHACE Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Riot Ensemble, Orquestra SesiMinas and others.
Carolina Carrizo
Carolina Carrizo holds a Bachelor's degree and a Teaching degree in Music with a specialization in Composition from Facultad de Artes (UNLP, Argentina), graduating with distinction (2019). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Arts at the same institution. As a composer, she has received commissions and regularly participates in national and international festivals of contemporary and experimental music, including: Festival Atemporánea, ConDitLab, Generación TACEC (Argentina), Festival Plurisons (Brazil), Festival EXIT (Uruguay), PUJOA (Paraguay), UC Electroacoustic Music Festival (Chile), Visiones Sonoras (Mexico), Mixtur Festival (Spain), Frequenz Festival (Germany), Sonar Festival (Austria), Nordic Saxophone Festival (Finland, Sweden, Denmark), Tchaikovsky Academy (Russia), Contemporary Encounters (Israel), Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (Iran), Synesthesia Lab (Russia), among others. She is Associate Professor of Composition III and of Analysis of Resources I & II, within the Bachelor's Degree in Music (Composition) and the University Technical Degree in Sound and Recording, respectively, at the Facultad de Artes (UNLP, Argentina). She also teaches at the Bachillerato de Bellas Artes (UNLP, Argentina). In addition, she has led transdisciplinary production workshops at Festival Plurisons UFMG (2025, Brazil), the Electronic Sound Factory at UNIRIO (2024 and 2025, Brazil), the National Composition Meeting at IUPA (2025, Argentina), MUSITEC2 (2020, Brazil), among others.
Mathis Saunier
Mathis Saunier is a French composer based in London, UK. His work blends electronic, acoustic, and visual elements, including lights and web-based soundscape apps, drawing on influences from techno, hyper-pop, noise, and industrial music. He graduated in composition from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2022 and is a Britten Pears Young Artist 2023/24. He collaborates with ensembles such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Collective, Ligeti Quartet, Exaudi, and the Nouvel Ensemble de Neuchâtel. His music has been performed across Europe and the US and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, France Inter, and RTS Radio.
Shahrzad Talebi
Shahrzad Talebi is a composer, sound artist, and educator from Tehran, Iran. Characterized by dense and complex textures, her music is focused on timbre as a means for exploring new soundscapes, color, time, space, and concepts. Her compositions have been recognized at the EMM Festival, Splice Festival, Taproot New Music Festival, PMF~, Penn State New Music Festival, Toledo Symphony Orchestra reading session; and has been performed by Unheard-of//Ensemble, Splinter Reeds, The Experiment, and Dal Niente ensemble. She holds a bachelor’s degree in composition from Tehran University of Art and a master of music from Bowling Green State University. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at the University of North Texas as a teaching fellow while exploring her interests in audio-visual, and electronic music.
Visual Artists
Britt Moseley
Britt Moseley is an Austin-based artist working across sculpture, performance, and media systems. He holds a BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute and an MFA from University of Texas at Austin. His work has been presented at Hammer Museum (CA), St. Ann’s Warehouse (NY), Dixon Place (NY), Visual Arts Center (TX), and Ivester Contemporary (TX), among others. He has received support from City Artist Corps and Wave Farm’s MAAF Grant, and completed residencies at the Institute for Electronic Arts and St. Ann’s Puppet Lab. He teaches ceramics and new media at St. Edward’s University and UT San Antonio.
Krista Faist
Krista Faist is a VR/AI/moving image artist and creative technologist with an MFA from Columbus College of Art & Design. Her practice spans interactive installations, projection mapping, and real-time AI-driven generative systems that explore wonder, memory, and technological mediation. She serves as a 2024 Fuse Factory Artist-in-Residence and founding board member of Mural ReMix, a nonprofit projection mapping organization in Columbus, Ohio. Major works include Energy and Grace for BLINK Cincinnati 2024 and The Mirror's Echo, an AI installation transforming speech into visual landscapes. At CAST 2026, she presents NORI, audio-reactive visuals for a chamber performance composed by Haeun Park.
David Sydiongco
David Sydiongco is a new media artist based in Austin, TX. Harnessing tools like TouchDesigner and Resolume, his work explores the emotional narrative of music and sound through real-time generative design. He draws inspiration from the surreal beauty found in both natural and synthetic spaces. He is also the co-founder of the live audiovisual act blend.mode and a regular performer and collaborator with dadageek.
Jonathan Monaghan
Jonathan Monaghan is an interdisciplinary artist whose prints, sculptures, and video installations weave together elements of ancient mythology, science fiction, and consumer culture. Past exhibitions include Sundance New Frontier, The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, NRW Forum in Düsseldorf, and The Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His work sits in numerous public and private collections including The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. and the Microsoft Art Collection. He lives and works in Washington D.C.
Shirley Steele
A mixed-media artist, Shirley Steele works in the intersection of the humanist art tradition and new technology. She was a research scientist at Bell Labs when she met some of the pioneers of computer art and discovered the creative potential of the new tools. Later, Steele brought a scientific perspective to traditional arts training at the Art Students League in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Her most recent artwork is an exploration of the space between classical portraiture and creative computation.
Eric Theise
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and software developer. Through performance, video, and works on paper he reinvigorates the inquiries of experimental filmmakers, the Light and Space movement, and visual poetry as fresh explorations of digital cartography. His concerns include perceptual pleasure and fatigue, geographies of the natural and built environment, and subverting the presumed objectivity and authority of maps. Since 2022 he's performed “A Synesthete's Atlas” across North America and in Europe. In 2024 he was commissioned to create the animated map that appeared atop San Francisco's Salesforce Tower, and in 2025 he received an OpenStreetMap Innovation Award.
Performing Ensembles
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.
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.
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