Kyle Hutchins develops large-scale performance projects and collaborative platforms at the forefront of experimental saxophone and electroacoustic practice. His work spans electroacoustic music, free improvisation, composition, and multimedia performance, integrating saxophone, electronics, and spatial audio through long-form structures and sustained artistic partnerships.
FEATURED PROJECTS
BINARY CANARY
An ongoing electroacoustic project with Ted Moore investigating feedback systems, microtonal friction, and long-form structures through the interaction of saxophone and electronics.
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An ongoing electroacoustic project with Ted Moore investigating feedback systems, microtonal friction, and long-form structures through the interaction of saxophone and electronics.
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THE WILLIAM BLAKE CYCLE: UNSEEN, UNBODIÈD, UNKNOWN
A large-scale, 75-minute multimedia work for saxophone(s), chamber ensemble, spatial audio, and video, integrating text, movement, and immersive sound within a fully staged performance environment by Tiffany M. Skidmore.
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A large-scale, 75-minute multimedia work for saxophone(s), chamber ensemble, spatial audio, and video, integrating text, movement, and immersive sound within a fully staged performance environment by Tiffany M. Skidmore.
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NEW MUSIC + TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL
An ongoing, multi-day festival at Virginia Tech dedicated to experimental music, multimedia performance, and interdisciplinary work at the intersection of art and technology. Founded in 2021 and directed by Kyle Hutchins, the festival brings together performers, composers, and researchers for concerts, installations, lectures, and collaborative projects across campus venues including the Cube and the Creativity + Innovation District.
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An ongoing, multi-day festival at Virginia Tech dedicated to experimental music, multimedia performance, and interdisciplinary work at the intersection of art and technology. Founded in 2021 and directed by Kyle Hutchins, the festival brings together performers, composers, and researchers for concerts, installations, lectures, and collaborative projects across campus venues including the Cube and the Creativity + Innovation District.
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113 COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE
An international collective and publishing platform advancing new music through open calls, festivals, and collaborative projects. As a founding member and board leader, Hutchins helps shape commissioning, curation, and the dissemination of new work across a global network of artists.
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An international collective and publishing platform advancing new music through open calls, festivals, and collaborative projects. As a founding member and board leader, Hutchins helps shape commissioning, curation, and the dissemination of new work across a global network of artists.
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ADDITIONAL WORK
COMPOSITIONS
you can't hold it against them, taragato and electronics for Esther Lamneck, in progress
that this, soprano and electronics for Tiffany DuMouchelle, in progress
i thought you said forever, 1-3 violins for Maya Bennardo and Duo Gelland, premiere at Nautilus Music-Theater, 5/2026
i'll wait until it's quiet, ensemble and field recordings for 113, premiere at matik-matik in Bogotá, Colombia, 6/2025
even if i must go, 8 percussionists in a field for 113 and Zeitgeist, premiere at Festival at the Farm, Ellsworth, WI, 8/2024
downcast eyes, clarinet and electronics for Michelle Smith Johnson, premiere at Alma del Core, Roanoke, VA, 5/2024
Postcard Piece No. 2, a fluxus mail art piece (edition of 8), delivered 5/2024
dismantle me, clarinet and electronics for me, premiered at AfterMAF Festival, Art Rat Studios, 7/2023
are we all lost like you?, at least four saxophones for Kendra Wheeler, premiered at Music on Mondays, Recital Salon, Virginia Tech, 3/2023
prime, musique concrète for 113, premiered by 113 Collective, virtual, 1/2023
junk merchant, musique concrète for 113, premiered by 113 Collective, virtual, 8/2022
Postcard Piece, a fluxus mail art piece (edition of 8), delivered 7/2021
Turtle Cry, solo voice for Alyssa Anderson, premiered at Studio 113 presents Experimental Vocal Music, virtual, 5/2021
Cookie Piece, a fluxus video piece for Joshua Musikantow, premiered at Live Election Coverage, virtual, 11/2020
For Sam and Kyle, saxophone and electric guitar for Sam Krahn, premiered at Green River College, Auburn, WA, 11/2019
re(k)nub, musique concrète for James Turrell, premiered Regis Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 9/2014
DEVISED WORK
The Common Opus (with Emily Lau), SATB choir, harp, violin, viola da gamba, saxophone, percussion, premiered at Portland’5, Portland, OR, 7/2023
column (with Ted Moore), feedback saxophone w/ implanted electronics, 142-channel audio, lights, premiered in the Cube, Blacksburg, VA, 2/2019
Alien Nail Polish (with Dan Tramte), saxophone, objects, and video, premiered in the Cube, Blacksburg, VA, 2/2019
alloy (with Ted Moore) saxophone and feedback cymbals, premiered at Constellation, Chicago, IL, 11/2019
bbbaby (with Niccolo Seligmann), prepared saxophones, prepared viola da gamba, EWI, and baby head theremin, premiered at The Crown, Baltimore, MD, 1/2019
PLEASE SAY SOMETHING: Silent Posts (with NME and Alexander Schubert), ensemble, electronics and video, premiered in the Cube, Blacksburg, VA, 12/2018
hollow (with Ted Moore), feedback saxophone and feedback PVC tubes, premiered at Northwestern University, 4/2018
eclipse (with Ted Moore), tenor saxophone, live processing, live video, premiered at Skewed Vision Studios, 1/2014
DOCUMENTARY
Caress of the Periphery of the After-Margin by tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, YouTube (2023)
Alien Nail Polish DECLASSIFIED, ScoreFollower (2020)
ENSEMBLE PROJECTS
113 Composers Collective, (2012-present)
Acute Trio, (2019)
AVIDduo, (2010-2018)
Banshee, (2023-present)
Binary Canary, (2013-present)
The Broken Consort, (2017-present)
Cinémathèque, (2022-present)
Fonema Consort, (2023-present)
Hutchins-Johnson Duo, (2019-present)
Hutchins-Qiang Duo, (2015-present)
Hutchins-Wheeler Duo, (2022-present)
Kill All Kings, (2023-present)
NME, (2017-2021)
The Poem Is Done, (2014-present)
Strains, (2016-present)
INTERVIEWS
Meet Kyle Hutchins, Canvas Rebel (2026)
Saxophones, soundscapes and slap tongues, oh my! Augustana Observer (2024)
Weirder Than Your Average Bear, Is This Music?!?! Podcast (2021)
Talking Free Music, interview series (2020-present)
This Is Maximalist: The Cube @ Virginia Tech, Engineers' Forum magazine (2019)
NEW MUSIC
PERFORMANCE PROJECTS
Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story by Seth Andrew Davis, hour-long work for saxophone, electronics, video, and dance (2025)
Masks and Mirrors by Charles Nichols and Zach Duer, hour-long work for saxophone, electronics and video (2025)
The Engastrimyth by Joey Crane, an hour-long saxophone+electronics work (2024)
The William Blake Cycle: Unseen, Unbodièd, Unknown by Tiffany Skidmore, multimedia saxophone opera (2014-22)
Virginia Tech New Music + Technology Festival, festival organizer (2021-present)
Live Election Coverage, a fluxus show (2021)
Twin Cities New Music Festival, festival organizer (2018-present)
Face Wails In Mouth, vocal and performance show (2016)
Persephone, performance with movement (2014)
Vocal Repertoire, (2014-ongoing)
Identity of the Moment, performance with textile artist (2013)
Ursonate, dada sound poem (2013-ongoing)
PUBLICATIONS
in-Approperiated Press #18: is AN ARCHwaY to FAIRyland, mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press zine (2024)
Automated Sound Design by Eric Lyon, A-R Editions, supporting audio examples (2022)
Solo Saxophone, Vol. 1, One Thirteen, anthology (2021)
Solo Saxophone, Vol, 2, One Thirteen, anthology (2021)
SOLOS: *ursonate, book object (2021)
REPERTOIRE
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Synchrony In Musical Performance, ICAT (2025)
THEATRE
Zwei Akte (1988-89) by Mauricio Kagel, theatre piece for saxophones, harp, and two nude actors, North American Premiere (2021)
Alice Underground, performer, composer, ensemble director, Virginia Tech (2020)
The Ballad of Curtis King, theatre sound design for Skewed Visions (2016)
Krapp's Last Tape, actor, Ted Mann Concert Hall (2015)
VIDEO ART
Cloud City Collage, video album with dance (2021)
Saxual Orientation by Pauline Oliveros, film made with my students (2021)
Confessions, new experimental video works for ensemble (2020)
ICD-10CM R55 by Elizabeth A. Baker, performance and film (2020)
Alien Nail Polish (with Dan Tramte), saxophone, objects, and video (2019)
VISUAL ART AND INSTALLATIONS
Transformation + Abundance, interactive multimedia installations (2022)
Snow Pesher, photo booklet (2021)
Exulansis Rake, a series of visual experiments (2017-2018)
Indifference, mixed media (2015)
Minneapolis^3, performance installation (2014)
Testing In Progress, performance installation (2014)
requiem: Ectopistes migratorius, improvisation with sound sculpture installation (2014)
Movement, sculpture (2014)
Sound Sculpture, installation (2014)
WRITING
Attentional Music, compositional practice reflection (2025)
Artistic Manifesto, personal guiding thoughts on art making (2015, rev. 2025)
Mesa Redonda, World Saxophone Congress, Gran Canaria (2024)
VT Music Commencement Speech (2023)
Review: Tom Weeks, Alto Saxophone Improvisations, April 29, 2020, College Music Symposium Vol. 60, No. 2, review article (2020)
Saxophone Music with Minimalistic Tendencies, LAP Lambert, book (2017)