Adam Vidiksis is an American drummer, composer, and music technologist whose work explores social structures, science, and the entanglement of humanity with the machines we build. Based in Philadelphia and Delaware, 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 possessing a “deep-colored radiance” that invites listeners to become absorbed in each moment (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
His compositions have been performed around the world. His work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission, the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, and the Society of Composers, Inc. He received the Nichi Bei Collaborating Artist Grant and was named the 2025 Established Artist Fellow in Music Composition by the Delaware Division of the Arts. Other honors include recognition from the Omaha Symphony, the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, and the Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival, as well as selection as the Steven R. Gerber Composer-in-Residence with American Composers Forum Philadelphia and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.
Vidiksis’s creative research centers on real-time audio processing, gestural controllers, generative and machine improvisation, artificial intelligence, neuroaesthetics, brain–machine interfaces, and multimedia installation. Approaching music as an expression of community, his work explores the dynamics between humanity and nature, the emergent complexity of simple systems, and the distribution of agency among performers, technologies, and environments. Working across concert music, improvisation, film, dance, installation, and interdisciplinary performance, he explores computational and biological systems as creative partners, investigating how technology, perception, and cognition shape musical agency, collaboration, and listening. His projects have been presented throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, including at the Tokyo Tokyo Festival, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, Pontificio Collegio Gallio in Como, the Andy Warhol Exhibition in Beijing, the Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Rome, Mammoth Cave National Park, and the Ouarzazate International University Film Festival in Morocco.
His recordings appear on New Focus Recordings, Neuma, EMPiRE, PARMA’s Ravello and Navona imprints, SEAMUS, Scarp, Fuzzy Panda, Mulatta, False Walls, and BCM&D. Ansible, his 2026 album with SPLICE Ensemble on New Focus Recordings, features his performances on drum set, percussion, and electronics.
At Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance, Vidiksis is Associate Professor and Director of Music Technology & Composition, as well as Director of the Center for Music Innovation & Creativity. He is also the founding director of the Boyer Electroacoustic Ensemble Project (BEEP), Temple’s electronic-music ensemble and a laboratory for experimental performance, improvisation, and multimedia collaboration.
Vidiksis serves as President of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) and as Past President of SPLICE, where he directs the SPLICE Electronic Improvisation Ensemble. 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. Rooted in a perpetual cycle of learning—from mathematics and AI to the natural world—he approaches music as a way of thinking through complexity and seeking meaning through sound, technology, place, and human connection.