
      &lt;h2&gt;Music and New Media Festival brings together local, national musicians and artists
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  | &lt;span class=&quot;byline&quot;&gt;Allison Cosby, Chris Perrone, Mirko Azis, Matt Mastricova&lt;/span&gt;
  
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      &lt;p&gt;Last week, from Oct. 5 to Oct. 8, the second-annual VIA Music and New Media Festival brought together visual artists and musicians from both around town and around the world to Pittsburgh. Although VIA only began last year, it has already garnered major attention: The music website Resident Advisor named VIA one of the top 10 music festivals in the world in October. WRCT, one of VIA&rsquo;s media partners, covered the festival throughout the week.&lt;/p&gt;

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      &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WEDNESDAY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Driving bass, striking projections, and sounds of synthesizers filled the brillobox on Wednesday night for the opener of the 2011 VIA Festival.&lt;br&gt;
Performances by Pure Hype, Trans Am, and Brenmar drew quite a crowd, and despite being the only 21-and-up show at this year&rsquo;s festival, it was the first show to sell out. This was certainly evident that night, with a packed house in Lawrenceville.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The night kicked off with a performance by Pittsburgh&rsquo;s own Pure Hype. Projecting images of vintage technology and clips from old films, Pure Hype combined a rich visual experience with driven electronic music. Its performance grabbed everyone&rsquo;s attention and was an exciting start to the evening.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Trans Am took the stage next, performing the entirety of its fourth album, &lt;em&gt;Futureworld&lt;/em&gt;, which featured its distinctive use of the vocoder, a synthesizer that produces sounds from an analysis of speech input. The lights then turned toward the white canopy over the stage, illuminati...&lt;/p&gt;

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