Saturday / August 30, 2025 at 1:30 pm A spectacle of sound and light, Greek composer Iannis Xenakis’s epic work Persépolis was originally commissioned by the Shiraz Festival in Iran, taking place in the ruins of the Temple of Darius in the Iranian desert on August 26, 1971.

Friday / August 29, 2025 at 9:00 pm A spectacle of sound and light, Greek composer Iannis Xenakis’s epic work Persépolis was originally commissioned by the Shiraz Festival in Iran, taking place in the ruins of the Temple of Darius in the Iranian desert on August 26, 1971.

Friday / August 29, 2025 at 6:00 pm TOPOS presents the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by celebrated composer-performer Sarah Davachi. The Rose Dialogues, scored for two violas, cello, organ, and electronics, begins with the simplest of musical devices—the canon (or, which can colloquially be thought of as a round)—and spins an oceanic world of unexpected harmonies, haunting melodies, and formal surprises. Talk Sarah Davachi & Amadeus Julian Regucera

Thursday / August 28, 2025 at 9:00 pm Pioneering producer, composer, and performer King Britt brings Liberation Meditations: A Call to TOPOS, joined by collaborators Suzi Analogue and Myles Ortiz-Green. Within the 39-speaker spatial soundscape of EMPAC Studio 1, turntables, analog synths, and digital textures are marshalled to move bodies–physically, emotionally, spiritually. This is dance as ritual, rhythm as resistance.

Thursday / August 28, 2025 at 7:00 pm For TOPOS, prolific composer-visual artist Raven Chacon turns away from the gravitas of the art world and returns to one of music’s most immediate, elemental forms: the band. Though well-versed in the terrain—having played in metal and thrash groups like Tenderizor, Kilt, and White People Killed Them—Chacon now channels the raw energy and aggression of these genres into an exploratory, almost meditative excavation of American musical lineages: country, folk, and their haunted echoes.

August 28-30, 2025 Artists Leslie Cuyjet, Katherine Simóne Reynolds & A.J. McClenon, Justine A. Chambers, Steffani Jemison, and others convene for the Ephemeral Organ Festival, culminating the year-long series from curator-in-residence Tara Aisha Willis. Four exciting festival presentations explore choreography and bodily motion as technologies for transmitting memory, history, and Black lived experience. Festival

Date: Thursday, July 17, 2025 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Students are invited to stop by for a cup of coffee, a little treat and an opportunity to socially connect with peers!

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2025 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Please visit recwell.rpi.edu or reach out to bradbj@rpi.edu for more information.

Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Students are invited to stop by for a cup of coffee, a little treat and an opportunity to socially connect with peers!

Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Join Rensselaer at Work Dean Aric Krause, Ph.D., on a 30-minute information session highlighting Rensselaer online, project-based graduate certificate programs in Analytics, Machine Learning & AI. Expect to learn how data can inform better decisions and review an analytic method that can be used regardless of the tools at hand. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.