N M E

NME at Virginia Tech, an experimental music research lab under the artistic direction of Kyle Hutchins, focuses on the discussion, artistry, and performance of experimental music after 1970, including free and structured improvisation, graphic notation, contemporary performance practice, interactive multimedia, and music in the expanded field. Since its inception in 2017, NME has premiered over twenty five new works by student and professional composers and sound artists. ​

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​Upcoming Performances:
4.7.20 - NME presents... The Yellow Wallpaper at Ruth C Horton Gallery ***Canceled - COVID19***
4.21.20 - NME presents... Ensemble of Ice at CUBE at Moss Arts Center ***Canceled - COVID19***

Past Performances:
​12.11.19 - NME presents... Crop Circles at CUBE at Moss Arts Center
11.19.19 - NME presents... I am sitting in a room at Perform Studio at Moss Arts Center
5.7.19 - NME presents... Rupture at CUBE at Moss Arts Center
5.4.19 - New Music Roanoke at Taubman Museum of Art
4.2.19 - NME presents... Sound Fishes at Perspective Gallery
12.4.18 - NME presents... PLEASE SAY SOMETHING at CUBE at Moss Arts Center
​11.6.18 - NME presents... The Great Learning at Moss Arts Center Gallery
4.24.18 - New Music Blacksburg at P. Buckley Moss Art Gallery​
4.15.18 - NME presents... Coming Together at Squires Recital Salon
2.27.18 - NME presents... Setz die Segel zur Sonne at Ruth C Horton Gallery
12.7.17 - NME presents... feedback v at Perspective Gallery
12.5.17 - NME presents... translucent forms at Squires Recital Salon
10.2.17 - Stevens/Hutchins Faculty Recital at Squires Recital Salon

​Repertoire:

Peter Ablinger - Ohne Titel 1-10
Cornelius Cardew - The Great Learning, Paragraph VII
*Alex Christie - Seen/Heard 2
Adam Cuthbért - Rupture
Chaya Czernowin - Adiantum Capillus-Veneris I
Natacha Diels - Symbiosis I
Tatiana Gerasimenok - The Creed
Vinko Globokar - ?Corporel 
Louis d'Heudieres - Laughter Studies 1 and 2  
Arthur Jarvinen - AM SAYING IT 64 Sentences re: J.C./M.D./J.J.
Alison Knowles - Shuffle Piece
*Sam Krahn - Tetractys Study
Olia Lialina - My boyfriend came back from the war
Liza Lim - Love Letter
Alvin Lucier - ​I am sitting in a room
Alvin Lucier - Music for Violin and Alto Saxophone
Alvin Lucier - Opera with Objects
*Eric Lyon - Jellyfish
Jessie Marino - Ritual I :: Commitment :: BiiM
Meredith Monk - ​Panda Chant
*Ted Moore - feedback V
Joshua Musikantow - Thirl​
Weston Olencki - for melodicas
Pauline Oliveros - Rock Piece
Pauline Oliveros - Saxual Orientation
Pauline Oliveros - Sound Fishes
Sun Ra - Muck Muck 
Frederic Rzewski - Coming Together
Alexander Schubert - Silent Posts: Please Say Something 
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Awake
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Setz die Segel zur Sonne
James Tenney - Having Never Written A Note For Percussion
Dan Tramte - Degradative Interference LITE
Jennifer Walshe - zusammen i
Bethany Younge - Electric Speak! Junk For Me!

*World Premiere
~US Premiere

Premieres by VT Student Composers:

Michael Briggs - Romaine Lettuce
Michael Brizzolara - Foggy River Dance
Ezra Clark and DJ Malinowski - Group Think
Jaden delaConcepcion - Ice Shift
Vincent Di Nardo - Abounded
Tyler Epting - Telling him. It's just a game.
Caroline Flynn - Jane and the Sinking Feeling
James Gilchrist - Polaris
Bill Kangas - Sunset
Griffin Knock - Looking Back In Our Future
DJ Malinowski - Remainders
DJ Malinowski - Translucient 
Michael Mills - Meme What You Say
Jack Reiter - Twilight Over Fields of Silver Seals
Jack Scheibe - Starlit Whispers
Aline de Souza - Meditation for Tao Hua Yuan Ji
Aline de Souza - Walking Around
Caden Vandervort - Crop Circles
Gabriel Wise - Through the Waters
Wynn Yang - Elysium
Wynn Yang - one last goodbye, then i go
Zayeem Zayman - Thoughts of a Vagabond

Past and Current Members:

Ted Alt, Savannah Amos, Matt Antes, Erin Atienza, Andrew Bender, Spencer Bess, Haley Blevins, Mason Campbell, Ezra Clark, Aly Fuller, Rachel Hachem, Cassie Hanson, Tejas Jagdhari, Emily Johnson, DJ Malinowski, Gabriella Marchetti, Trevor McMillan, Michael Mills, Denver Nuckolls, Maggie Painter, Kainen Phillips, Stephanie Quesenberry, Aline de Souza, Lynsey Strohminger, Clare Suess, Caden Vandervort, Ryan Vasquez, Jennifer Webbert, Wynn Yang  and Raphael Yeretzian

Visiting and Guest Artists:

Will Lang
Leo Saguiguit 
​Tiffany M. Skidmore
Annie Stevens
Hannah Weaver
Alan Weinstein
Wild Up