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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

Jay Scheib, The Silence, 2019. Credit: Jay Scheib.

Jay Scheib’s The Silence

Dream worlds collide with real worlds in an endless spiral down

Constanza Macras. Credit: Thomas Aurin.

Constanza Macras

Building dance theater from the ground up

Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan perform The Day at Jacobs Pillow. Credit: Hayim Heron. Courtesy of Jacobs Pillow.

The Day

Artists collaborate on a sensory exploration of life and the eternal

Songs from Extrasolar Spaces featuring Boston's Lorelei Ensemble, 2019.

Elena Ruehr’s Songs from Extrasolar Spaces

Translating the cosmos into music

Jay Scheib's In the Jungle of Cities. Courtesy of the artist.

Jay Scheib’s In the Jungle of Cities

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

Volumetric Cinema. Credit David Levine.

Volumetric Cinema

2018 Mellon Faculty Grant Recipient

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.

Pilobolus

Dance company Pilobolus creates interactive performance with MIT robotics

Anat Cohen. Credit Shervin Lainez.

Anat Cohen

A virtuoso widely recognized as one of the most vital clarinetists working today

Photo of man interacting with floating sculptures from the Aerocene Project

Aerocene. Credit: KHigginsMIT

MIT Arts Events at the 2018 Cambridge Science Festival

Every spring, the Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) makes science accessible, engaging and fun for everyone through multifaceted, multicultural events. In spring 2018, Arts at MIT created a list of of CSF events that taking place on the MIT campus. We … Continued

Aerocene. Credit: KHigginsMIT

Object Lesson: Aerocene Explorer

Object Lesson is an ongoing blog series that highlights some of the art, artifacts, machines, devices, books, instruments and tools that give physical form to ideas that enhance the MIT campus and community. What is the Aerocene Explorer? The … Continued