EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Leah Talatinian
Senior Officer for Marketing and Communications
Have you ever thought about how the city you live in could be represented in sound? Or even in music? The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and composer Tod Machover decided to ask the citizens of Detroit this very question.
Professor of music and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tod Machover, recently premiered his soundscape composition, Symphony in D, with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
There is a difference, however, between creating music inspired by a city — but still wholly executed within the context of a symphony — and literally making music from urban sounds. It is this latter ambition that drives composer and MIT … Continued
The Detroit Achievement Academy students had created music using Hyperscore, the sound-visualization software developed by Mr. Machover’s group at M.I.T.
The gift from Dasha Zhukova provides support to endow a vibrant, ongoing residency organized by the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) open to creators from art, architecture, or design.
Open to artists, architects and designers, The Distinguished Visiting Artist Position will help select a talented individual, who will receive a one to two year appointment at the MIT.
Russian philanthropist and art collector Dasha Zhukova will give $1 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to endow a brand new visiting artist program at the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology, it was announced today.
The Russian collector and philanthropist Dasha Zhukova is donating $1m to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to establish a “distinguished visiting artist” position.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today that Russian American philanthropist, collector, and Garage Museum founder Dasha Zhukova has donated $1 million for the purpose of creating a distinguished visiting artist position.
Dasha Zhukova is a Russian American philanthropist, entrepreneur, and art collector as well as the founder of Garage Museum for Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Ellenbogen, an underwater photographer, and Adams, a theoretical physicist at MIT, were on their way to Patagonia, where they were scheduled to teach a three-week class on marine photography and also shoot a breeding ground for elephant seals.
The American composer Keeril Makan, far from being intimidated, was clearly inspired to take it on, judging from the effectiveness of his “Persona,” a chamber opera with a libretto by the director Jay Scheib, closely adapted from Bergman’s screenplay.
Three different interpretations of chamber opera, not one of which belongs in a conventional opera house, came to New York last week.
The music of Keeril Makan, a professor at M.I.T., is empowered by modern technology but haunted by a spirit of immemorial darkness.
The Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the concert music field honors Ellen T. Harris for her book George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends, published by Norton.
As part of the national debate over race relations, Render has appeared on CNN and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and has guest-lectured at MIT—speaking out on #BlackLivesMatter, media stereotypes against African American males, and police brutality.
