Adam Vidiksis is an American drummer, composer, and technologist whose work explores social structures, science, and the entanglement of humankind with the machines we build. Based in Philadelphia and Delaware, he serves as Associate Professor and Director of Music Technology & Composition and the Center for Music Innovation & Creativity at Temple University. His music examines technology as an artifact of culture, revealing the friction, growth, and decay that arise where natural and constructed worlds meet. Critics have described his work as “mesmerizing,” “dramatic,” and “striking” (Philadelphia Weekly), “magical” (Local Arts Live), and have noted that he provides “an electronically produced frame giving each sound such a deep-colored radiance you could miss the piece’s shape for being caught up in each moment” (Philadelphia Inquirer). His compositions have been performed around the world at major festivals and conferences, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission, and the American Composers Forum. The 2025 Established Artist Fellow in Music Composition for the Delaware Division of the Arts, Vidiksis engages deeply with real-time audio processing, gestural controllers, AI-driven music, and multimedia installation. His projects have been presented internationally at the Tokyo Tokyo Festival, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, Pontificio Collegio Gallio in Como, the Andy Warhol Exhibition in Beijing, and the Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Rome. A founding director of SPLICE Music, he performs with SPLICE Ensemble, Aeroidio, and the Miller–Vidiksis–Wells trio, and serves as conductor for Philadelphia’s Network for New Music. A dedicated champion of new work, he has premiered hundreds of compositions by artists from around the world, continually seeking meaning through sound, technology, and human connection.

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