Sospeso gives the east coast premiere of legendary electronic music composer Morton Subotnick's Release for live musicians and surround sound electronics at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival in Troy, NY.

The festival features performances by composers and visual artists of the San Francisco Tape Music Center. Also on the program will be a performance of Subotnick's Mandolin for live musicians, tape and film, with filmmaker Anthony Martin.

Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC is an arts institution that draws strength from being part of a great research university. It operates nationally and internationally: attracting innovative artists, both renowned and emerging, from around the world; offering artists, researchers, and audiences opportunities that are available nowhere else under a single roof; providing unsurpassed facilities for creative exploration, and for research in fields such as visualization and movement capture; sending new artworks onto the global stage.