2018-19
![Image credit: Justin Knight.](https://arts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/33216309321_3be1a41713_b-350x262.jpg)
David Bowie's Blackstar performed by Maya Beiser with the Ambient Orchestra, 2017.
2018-19 MIT Sounding
Contemporary music with a global cast
The 2018–19 season of the innovative annual performance series MIT Sounding continues to blur musical boundaries. Curated by Evan Ziporyn, faculty director of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), this season of MIT Sounding presents unique artists who push the envelope of their respective genres, creating new evolving music for the 21st century.
![A performer appears surrounded by threads of light.](https://arts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NERVOUS_SYSTEM_photo-by-Andrew-Schneider_photo-of-Alicia-ayo-Ohs-and-Andrew-Schneider-e1532542447515-350x262.jpg)
NERVOUS SYSTEM by Andrew Schneider. Alicia ayo Ohs and Andrew Schneider.
Andrew Schneider
Interactive media artist![Tomás Saraceno stands within a large artwork made of black cables and clear orbs.](https://arts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/_imported/artists/2013/08/Biosphere_MW32-Flying_Garden-Air-Port-City_2007-small-350x262.jpg)
Tomás Saraceno, Biosphere MW32/Flying Garden/Air-Port-City, 2007. Courtesy: Tomás Saraceno. Credit: Rokma.
Tomás Saraceno
Inflatable and airborne biospheres that expand our thermodynamic imagination
REVERBERATIONS
September 25, 2014
MIT Museum
SENSING
September 27, 2014
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Media Lab, MIT Building E14-674
![Adrienne Truscott. Credit: Allison Michael Orenstein. © 2018 Adrienne Truscott.](https://arts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Adrienne-Truscott_Hair_Credit-Allison-Michael-Orenstein-350x262.jpg)
Adrienne Truscott. Credit: Allison Michael Orenstein. © 2018 Adrienne Truscott.
Adrienne Truscott
Genre-straddling performance artist![Artist standing in front of a large wall painting.](https://arts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Matthew-Ritchie-at-ICA_Credit-Aram-Boghosian-for-The-Boston-Globe-350x262.jpg)
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.
Matthew Ritchie
Artistic explorations of existence and scale![Thom Kubli with Black Hole Horizon, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Credit: Argeo Ascani.](https://arts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Thom_Kubli_Kris_Qua-350x262.jpg)
Thom Kubli with Black Hole Horizon, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Credit: Argeo Ascani.
Thom Kubli
Exploring the boundaries of physical space and floating structures![Ayesha Jordan performs Line by Line at MIT Building W97, Spring 2019. Credit Caroline Alden.](https://arts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/2019-MIT-Performing_Ayesha-Jordan_Line-by-Line_Credit-Caroline-Alden_3B-350x262.jpg)
Ayesha Jordan performs Line by Line at MIT Building W97, Spring 2019. Credit Caroline Alden.
Ayesha Jordan and Justin Hicks
A hypnotic audiovisual journey through the inner life of “glamazon hip-hop icon” Shasta Geaux Pop![Lisa Dwan stands in profile against a dark black background and points off to the left.](https://arts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Performing_Lisa-Dwan_Body-of-Becket_Credit-Leon-Yim_c-350x262.jpg)
Lisa Dwan presents "A Body of Beckett" at MIT, 2019. Credit: Leon Yim.
Lisa Dwan
"...an instrument of Beckett.” - The New York Times![Agnieszka Kurant. Photo: Janek Zamoyski.](https://arts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Agnieszka-Kurant_credit-Janek-Zamoyski_web-350x262.jpg)
Agnieszka Kurant. Photo: Janek Zamoyski.
Agnieszka Kurant
Creating art through emergence and collective intelligence![Hyphen-Labs, NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism Characters. Courtesy of the Artists.](https://arts.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Hyphen-Labs_NSAF_Characters_Techno-Africanum-Culturist-by-Hyphen-Labs-350x262.jpg)
Hyphen-Labs, NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism Characters. Courtesy of the Artists.