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Clarice Assad sings with MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble at Hearing Amazonia performance in March 2023. Credit: Caroline Alden.

MIT Sounding 2022-23

Contemporary music with a global cast The 2022–23 season of the innovative annual performance series MIT Sounding continues to expand musical boundaries. MIT Sounding presents unique artists who push the envelope of their respective genres, creating new evolving music for the 21st century. … Continued

Pianist Maki Namekawa in a leather jacket looking into the camera.

Maki Namekawa, Credit: Andreas H. Bitesnich

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

Sean Jones, Jazz at the Bistro. Courtesy of the artist.

Sean Jones

Under the auspices of CAST’s MIT Sounding series, It Must Be Now!, led by Fred Harris, brings together three leading musicians to collectively compose a large-scale work for MIT musicians on the overall theme of racial justice.

Braxton Cook. Credit Tom Van Scoyoc.

Braxton Cook

Terri Lyne Carrington. Credit: Jacobs.

Terri Lyne Carrington

As part of the 2019-20 MIT Sounding series, Lochan Rijal, an award winning multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter from Nepal, performed a public concert of Nepali music featuring original compositions played on traditional Nepali instruments. Photo by Caroline Aldenr. Please ask before use.

Lochan Rijal

Sharing the rich heritage of traditional Nepalese music

Iva Bittová. Courtesy of the artist.

Iva Bittová

Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer

Glenn Branca. Credit: Maria Jose Govea.

Glenn Branca Ensemble

Honoring a pioneer of the avant-garde

Harry Allen. Courtesy of the Artist.

Harry Allen and Rob Swift

MIT hosts harbanger, a battle DJ septet

CAST Visiting Artist Billy Novick performs in The Great Clarinet Summit. Credit: Sham Sthankiya/MIT.

Billy Novick

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

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.