MARCH 18-20, 2027

Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival (MOXsonic)

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The Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival (MOXsonic) is a three-day, in-person experimental music and sonic arts festival in Warrensburg, Missouri. The festival brings together independent and academic artists, researchers, technologists, and sonic adventurers for concerts, research presentations, workshops, demonstrations, and conversations centered on live experimental performance with new and interactive technologies. Throughout the festival we emphasize community, shared listening, and artists supporting artists. Attendance is required for all presenting participants.

Concerts and Live Performance

MOXsonic’s concert programs focus on experimental music performed live with technologically mediated, interactive performance systems. We especially welcome:

• Improvisers and composer-performers working with digital instruments and interactive systems
• Collaborative teams of composers, technologists, and performers
• Performers presenting new or recent works that engage with emerging tools
• Artists working with live electronics and generative/responsive environments
• Hybrid works with live performers that use new interactive technologies with fixed media components, where the interactive component is central.

Concerts take place in Hart Recital Hall, featuring a Meyer Sound 17.5 system, video projection, and professional technical support.

Nightlife

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings feature Nightlife events, offering space for extended and exploratory practices with new technologies, including:

• Long-form improvised sets
• Ambient and experimental music
• Live coding
• Creative DJing
• Dedicated listening and conversation

Nightlife events encourage both performance and community-building through shared social time and sonic experiences.

Research, Workshops, Five-Minute Videos and Presentations

MOXsonic showcases a wide range of research and practice-based work with technology, including:

• Research and paper presentations
• Software and hardware demonstrations
• Hands-on workshops
• Five-Minute Lightning Video Research Presentations

The Five-Minute Videos, inspired by the “Enlighten us, but make it quick!” format, allow artists and researchers to share scholarly, technological, or creative work through short videos, followed by live group Q&A. This format has proven highly engaging.

Fixed Media Performances

Fixed media works are presented in the Electronic Music Composition Studio, an immersive listening space featuring a 17.1 Genelec system, large comfortable seating, and open access during the festival.

• Please note:
  Attendance in person is required for fixed media works to be presented.

Submissions, Support, and Community

There are no application fees or attendance/registration fees. All events are free and open to everyone.

Individual and group submissions are expected to be self-contained, including performers, laptops, and interfaces. MOXsonic provides:

• Performance and presentation spaces
• Professional sound systems
• Technical staff
• Organization, audience, promotion, and community

Detailed information about our performance spaces can be found on our Tech and Space page.

We welcome a wide variety of applications and believe that a diversity of voices, perspectives, gender, genre, age, and identity will make for a positive and strong event.

Please make no presumptions about what will be selected—surprise us. If you are unsure how to categorize your project, please reach out via the contact form and we will help.

If accepted, attendance is required to have your work presented. MOXsonic is built on the principle that artists supporting artists create stronger work and a more meaningful festival experience.