Digital Interactive Sound and Intermedia Studio (DISIS) is Virginia Tech Music Department's response to the Provost's latest University-wide Collaborative for Creative Technologies in the Arts and Design (CCTAD) initiative. Founded in 2007 by Dr. Ivica Ico Bukvic, DISIS complements and recontextualizes the Virginia Tech music technology program by providing the rapidly growing Creative Technologies in Composition and Multimedia Art Design option. By coupling contemporary technology with traditional performance idioms, DISIS pursues a symbiosis of new forms of artistic expression with special focus on interactive multimedia art and scientific research of new multimedia technologies for the purpose of betterment of the overall quality of life.