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MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology Performances

CAST presents performing and visual arts or design relevant to the research of engineers, scientists and the MIT community, through collaborative projects.

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MIT SOUNDING: Contemporary music with a global cast

The innovative annual performance series MIT Sounding blurs the boundaries between contemporary and world music. Curated by Evan Ziporyn, Faculty Director of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, Sounding integrates the avant-garde sounds of ancient instruments and traditional practices with cutting-edge composition and technology to present various visions of a new, evolving music that defies genre.

MIT Sounding is co-presented with MIT Music and Theater Arts.

 

MIT PERFORMING: A presenting and prototyping series

MIT Performing, a prototyping and presenting series curated by Jay Scheib, professor for Music and Theater Arts, with the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, promotes a research based artistic practice in the development of a new platform for contemporary performance.

MIT Performing is presented by MIT CAST with support from the Council for the Arts at MIT.

 

For more information, contact CAST

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2018-19 MIT Sounding

MIT Sounding is an annual concert series open to the public

Adrienne Truscott

Feb 7-9, 2019: Genre-straddling performance artist presents THIS

Alvin Lucier

Legendary composer blurs the lines between experiment, composition, and art installation

Anat Cohen

A virtuoso widely recognized as one of the most vital clarinetists working today

Andrew Schneider

Nov 9-11, 2018: Interactive media artist and company presents NERVOUS/SYSTEM

Arnold Dreyblatt

Media artist and composer explores audio visual perception and memory

Ayesha Jordan and Justin Hicks

Feb 15, 2019: Work-in-Progress Showing

BIC

Bringing Kreyòl music and digital poetry to MIT

Billy Novick

"Sincerity... elegance... a lovely celebration of tunefulness" — Downbeat

Braxton Cook

Vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Braxton Cook comes to MIT to participate in It Must Be Now!

Clarice Assad

Multifaceted vocalist, music educator, and composer

Constanza Macras

Building dance theater from the ground up, October 31, 2019

Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts

Sonifying the increasing loss of Black Americans to carceral systems

Don Byron

Legendary clarinetist and composer forging "a sound above genre"

duoJalal

"Fearless seekers and synthesizers of disparate instruments and cultures” —Toronto Star

Either/Or Ensemble

Avant-garde ensemble Either/Or is fiercely virtuosic

EVIYAN

World roots, post-minimalism and jazz in a singular, earthy and intense sound

FLUX Quartet

"One of the most fearless and important new-music ensembles" — San Francisco Chronicle

Fradreck Mujuru and Erica Azim

Celebrating the Shona mbira tradition

Front Porch Collective

A black theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in Boston through theater

Glenn Branca Ensemble

Honoring a pioneer of the avant-garde

Guillermo Klein

April 28, 2017 - a stellar collision of vocal jazz, Latin music, and poetry

Harry Allen and Rob Swift

MIT hosts harbanger, a battle DJ septet

Hearing Amazônia–The Responsibility of Existence

Exploring the plight of the natural world through Brazilian and Amazonian music

Immense Joy / H.o.t.S

Clarice Lispector’s brutal and tender exploration of what it truly means to be poor

Iva Bittová

Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer.

Jacob Collier

“Jazz music’s new messiah” —The Guardian

Jay Scheib’s In the Jungle of Cities

May 17, 2019: A Works/Process Presentation inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s genre-smashing play

Jay Scheib’s The Silence

Two sisters on the run from massive human failure, December 12-14, 2019

Joe Lovano

“One of the greatest musicians in jazz history”—New York Times

Joel Fan

Soaring and virtuosic pianist

Johnny Gandelsman

Violinist Gandelsman "plays with a balletic lightness of touch and a sense of whimsy and imagination" —Boston Globe

Kaynak Pipers Band

Traditional kaba gaida folk music of Bulgaria

Lakaï Dance’s The Block: An Afro-Musical

The Block: An Afro-Musical, September 27 & 28, 2019

Lion’s Jaw

Creating an environment where risk, rigor, and rebellion can flourish through dance

Lisa Dwan

2019–20 CAST Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist

Lochan Rijal

Sharing the rich heritage of traditional Nepalese music

Maki Namekawa Presents Philip Glass, Keith Jarrett, Joe Hisaishi, Evan Ziporyn

Marcus A. Thompson’s Faculty Recital

2017 Fay Chandler Creativity Grant

Matthew Ritchie

Artistic explorations of existence and scale

Maya Beiser

Maya Beiser is a “cello goddess” — The New Yorker

MIT Sounding 2022-23

Presenting unique artists who push the envelope of their respective genres, creating new evolving music for the 21st century

Nik Bärtsch’s MOBILE

Rigorously conceptual zen-funk

Pamela Z

Transforming elegant physical gestures into complex aural and visual landscapes

Parsifal

Pawel Romanczuk, Small Instruments

Complex sounds from small instruments

Roomful of Teeth

The expressive potential of the most basic instrument: the human voice

Sarah Cahill

“Sterling Bay Area pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” —The New York Times

Sean Jones

Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, and activist Sean Jones comes to MIT to participate in It Must Be Now!

Simon Smith

Masterful and intrepid Stockhausen concert

Sumie Kaneko

Traditional Japanese music with a jazz inflection

Terri Lyne Carrington

Drummer, producer, and educator Terri Lyne Carrington comes to MIT to participate in It Must Be Now!

Terry Riley

Minimalist legend

The Boston Camerata

Anne Azéma, Artistic Director

The Day

Conversation with Wendy Whelan and Maya Beiser, moderated by Sara Brown, April 23, 2020

VALIS

Reimagining live performance interactivity for a new generation

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