COTFG: New Media Art & Sound Summit

Event Info

Date start	09.26.25
Date end	09.28.25
Start Time	7pm
Schedule	Day 1 - see schedule for details Friday, September 26 6–10pm Day 2 - see schedule for details Saturday, September 27 3–10pm After Party at Stargazer Saturday, September 27 10–10pm Day 3 - see schedule for details Sunday, September 28 2–5pm Collaboration with Sound Sunday at Stargazer Sunday, September 28 7–10pm
Format	Experience Concert
Medium	Civic Engagement Music Installation
Admission	$10–50 Sliding Scale

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Presented by	COTFG
Funded by	Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department Economic Development Division of the City of Austin

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COTFG's New Media Art & Sound Summit returns! Wade in the ponds between concert and a forum for those of us living in the grey area of contemporary sound and future thinking.

This year we will be hosting our festival at The Museum of Human Achievement here in East Austin! Please check out the schedule below.

Schedule

Friday, September 26 – 6pm – 10pm

Music Research Strategies
“Radical Friendships” (ILW:RC:ATX:RF) Installation
“Resolution” (ILW:RC:ATX:Resolution) Performance
Discussion with participants and audience

Saturday, September 27 – 3pm – 10pm

3:00pm - Doors
4:00pm – Veronica Anne Salinas + Phonography Austin
5:00pm – Aida Shirazi + Justin Bernard Williams + Kiou Kalami
6:00pm – Spirit Plate
7:00pm – HXH Expanse
8:00pm – iisa
9:00pm – Peach Blossom Highway

After Party at Stargazer
10:00pm - Carolyn Trowbridge Quartet

Sunday, September 28 – 2pm – 5pm

1:30pm - Doors
2:00pm – Elizabeth A. Baker – The Hand of Fate
3:00pm – Improvisational Bass Quintet
4:00pm – Cassie Watson Francillon + Sasha Masakowski

Collaboration with Sound Sunday at Stargazer 7:00pm – 10:00pm - Justin Bernard Williams, Mingfei Xie, Joey Reyes

About COTFG

COTFG is a volunteer-run arts organization supporting creative expression and counter-culture community. We present and host occasions for experimental music performers and listeners to engage in safe, ADA compliant, comfortable spaces.

Our annual New Media Art and Sound Summit® is a multi-day summer festival dedicated to diversifying Austin’s musical ecosystem.

The group originally formed at an old church on the east side in 2003 and over the years has included rotating casts of volunteers, artists, local audience and long distance pen-pals. We have presented over one hundred events to date including concerts, art exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and other adventurous excursions.

For more information email cotfg.assistant@gmail.com