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Future Traditions is a multimedia festival that explores digital technology as a collaborative tool for extending and facilitating traditional Latin American music and dance in the 21st century.

10/22/2026

Thank you for joining us for Future Traditions Fest 2026! Special thanks to the amazing filmmakers, speakers, artists, collaborators, staff and volunteers for helping us create a memorable experience for everyone.

10/17/2026

*TONIGHT* Future Traditions Fest Headliner Maria Chavez stopped by to do a sound check for tonight’s performance.

8:30 PM | Maria Chávez is best known as the originator of the art practice Abstract Turntablism™ - centering unique physical activation methodologies utilizing turntables, implements, needles, and the breaking of vinyl records. Rooted in Deep Listening, a form of embodied listening developed by her late mentor Pauline Oliveros.

🎟️Tickets at the door
🍿Concessions available
📍 dadaLab

10/17/2026

*TONIGHT | 7:30PM* Roco Córdova (voice, electronics - San Francisco) with Adam Rosario (percussion) and Karolina Arocho (dance) (Austin). Videos by Drip Cuts (Austin)

Pasados/Futuros, is a collaborative performance inspired by the title of the festival. This performance bridges Córdova’s work as a vocal improviser, along with their work as a student of the centuries-old Afro-Puerto Rican musical tradition of bomba.

🎟️Tickets at the door
🍿Concessions available
📍 dadaLab dadalab.io

10/17/2026

*TONIGHT* Future Traditions Fest featured artist Joey Reyes joined us for a quick soundcheck for tonight’s performance.

6:30 PM | About Face - Joey Reyes (cello - Austin) with Trey Abraham (video, painting) (Austin)

About Face is a 50-minute multimedia experience blending live music, projected visuals, and live painting to explore pareidolia, the phenomenon of perceiving faces in inanimate objects.

🎟️Tickets at the door
🍿Concessions available
📍dadaLab in East Austin

10/10/2026

**SATURDAY, OCT. 17** Catherine and George Cisneros, multimedia creators and founders of URBAN-15, an influential arts organization in central Texas for over 50 years, present Back In the Neighborhood.

✨About Back in the Neighborhood: Presentation will include vintage footage of URBAN-15’s first performance on July 21, 1974, at Clark Field and various clips and images from their collaborative and solo installations, performances, gallery pieces, and workshops. Of particular interest will be the story of a small organization of color with extreme experimental tendencies survived within an era that ranges from the end of the Vietnam conflict through the scrutiny of Jesse Helms into today’s crackdown on anything Brown.

🗓 Saturday, October 17
📍 dadalab, East Austin
🎫 Get Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/future-traditions-fest-2026

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

10/06/2026

**SATURDAY, OCT. 17** Cellist, composer, creative technologist, and 2026 Featured Artist Joey Reyes presents About Face, a collaboration with mixed media artist and visual performer Trey Abraham.

✨ About Face is a 50-minute multimedia experience blending live music, projected visuals, and live painting to explore pareidolia, the phenomenon of perceiving faces in inanimate objects. Through recursion and improvisation, artists Joey Reyes (music and projections) and Trey Abraham (live painting) examine themes of identity, emergence, and recognition. Catch this immersive performance at the 2026 Future Traditions Fest.

📍 dadaLab
🎫 Get tickets: https://bit.ly/4hGOCWM

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

10/05/2026

**SATURDAY, OCT 17** Vocalist, composer, and 2026 Featured artist Roco Córdova presenting Pasados/Futuros, a collaborative performance with percussionist Adam Rosario and dance performer Karolina Arocho González.

About Pasados/Futuros: Inspired by the title of the festival, Future Traditions, this performance bridges Córdova’s work as a vocal improviser, along with their work as a student of the centuries-old Afro-Puerto Rican musical tradition of bomba.

By combining electronic music composition, live vocal processing and traditional bomba instrumentation, the performers pose the following questions: Can age-old technologies coexist with modern ones? What will the bomba of the future sound like? What is produced out of the friction between conservation and innovation? This composition is by no means a traditional bomba performance, yet musically it is centered in the structures of its many toques (rhythmic patterns) and their relation to other Caribbean musics.

This performance is also deeply mystical; some of its musical materials were inspired by dreams. In many indigenous and Afro-diasporic spiritualities, dreams are a medium in which the world of spirits communicates with humanity. This work aims to be a gathering ground where spirits, orisha, saints, and cemís coexist with aliens, parallel universes and cybernetic enhancements, imagining a Caribbean futurist aesthetic.

📍 .io
🎫 Get Tickets: https://bit.ly/4hGOCWM

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

10/01/2026

**SATURDAY, OCT 17** Catch a groundbreaking performance by headliner, DJ, and abstract turntablist Maria Chávez at Future Traditions Fest 2026.

✨Maria Chávez is best known as the originator of the art practice Abstract Turntablism™ (est. 2000). Abstract Turntablism centers unique physical activation methodologies utilizing turntables, implements, needles, and the breaking of vinyl records.

📍.io
🎫Tickets: https://bit.ly/4hGOCWM

09/30/2026

✨2026 Future Tradtitions Fest 2026 Featured Performer Joey Reyes presenting About Face, a 50-minute multimedia experience blending live music, projected visuals, and live painting to explore pareidolia, the phenomenon of perceiving faces in inanimate objects. Through recursion and improvisation, artists Joey Reyes (music and projections) and Trey Abraham (live painting) examine themes of identity, emergence, and recognition. Catch this immersive performance at the 2026 Future Traditions Fest.

Joey Reyes is a cellist, composer, and creative technologist who has scored art installations, restorative yoga workshops, plays, and nature films. His live performances are enrapturing, described by the Austin American-Statesman as “simultaneously soothing and supernatural, and absolutely worth witnessing.” Joey Reyes has performed at SXSW, Le Guess Who?, Flying Island, New Media Art and Sound Summit, and Levitation Fest, and he has collaborated with Little Mazarn, Thor Harris, Future Museums, Water Damage, Bill Baird, Ruby Fray, Tan Cologne, and many more.

✨Collaborator:
Trey Abraham is a mixed media artist and visual performer living in Austin, Texas whose works often include a mixture of live painting, printmaking, and collage. Trey received a BFA with a concentration in printmaking from the Memphis College of Art in 2012.

🗓 Saturday, October 17
📍 dadalab, East Austin
🎫 Tickets available at link in bio

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

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