The Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) is pleased to present an evening of 3D music showcasing recent work and world premieres of current DXARTS staff and graduate students.
sound floats in the space around us,
but also floats us into a space,
different than the one we are in.
sound points at us,
points away from us -
crisscrossing, meshing, into a blanket,
under which
we dream.
PROGRAM
Slowly Disappear (2026)* - Daniel Peterson
couloirs… (2024) - Wei Yang
rain contained, rain contains…(2025) - Wei Yang
Abejas (2023) - Natalia Quintanilla Cabrera
Disonancia (2024) - Natalia Quintanilla Cabrera
interrumpido y fragmentado (2025) - Natalia Quintanilla Cabrera
*World premiere
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
Daniel Peterson is an acousmatic composer working with spatial sound using ambisonics. He completed a Master of Music in Composition at the University of Washington. He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, where he received his Ph.D. His compositional interests include spectral analysis, ambisonics, and the exploration of the relationships between literature, philosophy, and music.
Wei Yang is a composer/sound artist from China. He works with different media, through which he often contemplates the body’s role in sound production, sound in space, as well as the integration of various data from the performance environment (reverberation, light, etc.). Wei composes both instrumental and electronic music, and often incorporates various sensors and physical computing to build performative systems that allow dynamic interaction among different actors within the system. His works have been performed internationally at various events, including the Darmstadt Summer Festival, Salzburg Music Festival, BEAST Festival, NUNC!, ICMC, ISAC Sonosfera, Tomeistertagung, ORF Musikprotokoll, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, SEAMUS, Espacious Sonores, Festival Atemporánea, Nucleo Música Nova SiMN, Sound Image Festival, and Ars Electronica. Wei received his Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Washington. He is currently a PhD candidate at the university’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media.
Natalia Quintanilla Cabrera is a composer from Mexico City. She studied music composition and music theory at Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música (CIEM) in Mexico City and earned an M.A. in Media Arts from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on 3D and hybrid spatial audio in composition, engaging with social narratives, especially gender violence in Mexico. Her work has been presented in Mexico, the U.S., at Ars Electronica, Festival IZIS (Slovenia), Tonmeistertagung in Düsseldorf, and in Graz as part of the ORF musikprotokoll. Her music was featured at the International Computer Music Conference, with research published in the proceedings. She was also commissioned by the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth for wind ensemble works.