SPLICE Festival presents concerts that blend 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. SPLICE Festival encourages submissions from performers, composers, and composer/performers. The inaugural SPLICE Festival will take place at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI on January 26th and 27th of 2018.