Kyle Vegter

stage manager and board operator, original score and sound design, co-artistic director

Kyle Vegter (stage manager and board operator, original score and sound design, co-artistic director), Managing Artistic Director of Manual Cinema, is a composer, producer, and sound designer. As a composer of concert music, he has been commissioned by such groups as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (for its MusicNOW series), the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and TIGUE. Vegter’s music and sound design for theater and film has been seen worldwide and commissioned by the New York Times, NPR’s Invisibilia, Topic (First Look Media), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, StoryCorps, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Poetry Foundation, Hubbard Street Dance, the O, Miami Poetry Festival, and others. His past composer/sound designer credits with Manual Cinema include Lula Del Ray, Ada/Ava, FJORDS, Mementos Mori, The End of TV, and various other performance and video projects. Vegter has been an artist in residence at High Concept Laboratories, and co-founded Chicago’s only contemporary classical music cassette label, Parlour Tapes+.