SPLICE Festival is a three-day festival that blends engaging live performances with new technologies. Composers, performers, and composer/performers gather for a weekend of concerts and presentations covering topics such as aesthetics, technology, and issues of performance practice, with the goal of inspiring, educating, and sharing information amongst the attendees and the students at the host institution. SPLICE Festival is designed to foster community and to create bonds between performers and composers dedicated to music that involves dynamic, live performance with technology. Unlike the SPLICE Summer Institute, the Festival takes place at a different location each year.

SPLICE Festival VIII will be hosted by The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 11-13, 2027. SPLICE Festival will include five concerts, along with presentations and hands-on workshop sessions. Concerts will feature performances selected from submitted works, an improv concert featuring dance, and a curated concert by the SPLICE Ensemble. Presentations and workshops will serve University of Utah students, festival attendees, and the general community of Salt Lake City.

There is no application fee and no registration fee. However, participants are asked to be in attendance for the duration of the Festival.

Note: SPLICE Festival and SPLICE Institute are not the same!

• SPLICE Festival essentially follows a music conference paradigm, offering 3 days of concerts, lectures, and workshops at a different host institution each year.

• SPLICE Institute is a week-long intensive summer program that takes place every year at Western Michigan University. In addition to concerts, lectures, and panels, we offer a series of technology classes/workshops. For more details about SPLICE Institute, see our Institute page.

Dates:
February 11-13, 2027.

Location:
All events will take place live and in person at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.