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'Paurakhi' New Nepali Song by Lochan Rijal, May 2013.

Musician Lochan Rijal Brings the Music of Nepal to MIT

A concert provides a rare opportunity to hear original compositions on traditional instruments. With 75 districts and at least as many ethnicities, Nepal is home to a diverse array of musical traditions that remain largely unknown outside the country. On … Continued

Iva Bittová. Courtesy of the artist.

The Heart is a Bell: Iva Bittová Makes Joyful Music with the MIT Symphony

The Heart is a Bell: Iva Bittová with MITSO Thursday, October 10, 2019 / 8:00pm MIT Kresge Auditorium, W16 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 Free for the MIT community A unique program presents compositions by two female … Continued

Glenn Branca conducting the Glenn Branca Ensemble, Sonic Circuits Festival, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, D.C., 2012.

MIT Sounding Presents Both Sides of Composer Glenn Branca

Audiences experience Branca’s rarely-heard orchestral music and guitar ensemble. September 20th marked the launch of the 2019-20 MIT Sounding series with the adventurous and often emphatically loud music of an American iconoclast. The Music of Glenn Branca Live: The Glenn … Continued

Lisa Dwan presents "A Body of Beckett" at MIT, 2019. Credit: Leon Yim.

2019-20 MIT Performing Celebrates Collaboration in Theater

The season highlights personal and collective storytelling in performance. The powerful trifecta of live cinema, dance theater, and social music informs the 2019-20 MIT Performing series through an inspiring season of lectures, prototypes, research residencies and performances, curated by Jay … Continued

CAST Faculty Director Evan Ziporyn conducts his arrangement of David Bowie's Blackstar, performed by Maya Beiser with the Ambient Orchestra. Photo: Justin Knight.

Evan Ziporyn conducts his arrangement of David Bowie's Blackstar, performed by Maya Beiser with the Ambient Orchestra, 2017. Credit: Justin Knight.

2019-20 MIT Sounding Explores Far-Reaching Musical Frontiers

The year in music features a range of Boston premieres and diverse collaborations. Now in its eighth year, 2019-20 MIT Sounding presents another season of wide-ranging musical offerings that have found a vibrant home at MIT. “The program feeds the … Continued

A mural from The House of Correction AR Mural Project. The project is an ongoing collaboration between The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and several groups at MIT including Music and Theater Arts, The Borderline Mural Project, The Educational Justice Institute (TEJI), and Arts at MIT. Credit Leon Yim.

MIT Students Find Rich Rewards in Working on the HOC AR Mural Project

The community project provided a close up of prison life and revealed the power of art to inspire and transform. When MIT freshman Sherry Xiao and MIT junior Helen Read signed up to participate in the House Of Correction Augmented … Continued

Artist standing in front of a large wall painting.

Matthew Ritchie at the ICA, where the British-born, New York-based artist had an 18-month residency. Credit: Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe.

An Artist Inquires into the Computational Substrate at MIT

Matthew Ritchie researches technology’s growing scope as CAST visiting artist. Matthew Ritchie is no stranger to the MIT campus. The contemporary artist, who works in installation, performance, painting, drawing, sculpture and sound, created a site-specific installation at the Zesiger Center … Continued

Judith, Workshop Performance created by CAST Visiting Artist Karin Coonrod and MIT professor Diana Henderson. Courtesy of the artist.

Karin Coonrod Envisions a Medieval Heroine for Modern Times

Judith Workshop Presentation Tuesday, March 5, 2019 / 7:30pm MIT Building W97 345 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA The innovative theater director discusses Judith and her CAST residency with Professor Diana Henderson. All hail Judith, the female Beowulf! The medieval heroine … Continued

Isabelle Su: "I control what part of the web the viewer sees while Ian Hattwick plays with the hearing distance. All the fibers within this hearing distance (in blue/white) are sonified while the fibers outside of this range (in green/brown) do not produce sound. Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth improvise with the web instrument, building on Ian's sound, with Evan on EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument) and Christine on electric guitar with EBow."

A Three-Dimensional Spider Web Soundscape Comes to Life

Spider’s Canvas was performed February 16-18, 2019 at the MIT Building W97 Main Theater. Visit sounding.mit.edu for more information. Following the live performances, the piece was displayed in the MIT.nano Building 12 in Spring 2019. Spider’s Canvas / … Continued

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