The festival will feature two types of sound exhibitions featuring digital music: WXYC's digital music showcase and Festival on the Hill's electro-acoustic sound exhibitions.


WXYC Digital Music Showcase
Wednesday, starting at 9:00 p.m.
On air at 89.3FM

WXYC will air a locally produced Digital Music Showcase in partnership with the festival that features technologically innovative and artistically creative music produced in and around the Triangle. The sound exhibition, which will air on the radio during the festival and will be available at WXYC.com, will feature a diverse range of sounds, including: soundart, electro-acoustic compositions, digital noise/glitch, experimental sound, remixes, mashups, electronic beat-based music, etc. Projects created using MIDI, digital audio processing, sequencing software, digital synthesizers, analog/digital integration, and the like will be some of the music featured.

WXYC is the free-format, student-run radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We broadcast at 1100 watts at 89.3 fm. In November of 1994, WXYC became the first radio station in the world to broadcast its signal online. You can still listen to WXYC online at wxyc.org as well as on iTunes Radio, found under the “eclectic” section.

Festival on the Hill: Electro-Acoustic Sound Exhibitions

Last year, UNC music composition faculty Stephen Anderson and Allen Anderson issued an international call for new “2-channel electro-acoustic compositions” and received more than 120 submissions from composers all over the world. Of these, 42 works were selected for performance at the two electro-acoustic concerts and for exhibition during the festival: