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.