Songs from Extrasolar Spaces featuring Boston's Lorelei Ensemble, 2019.
Visiting Artists
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
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.
UPAerial Credit: Pilobolus
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
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
Marcus Thompson's Faculty Recital, 2018. Credit: L Barry Hetherington/MIT.
Marcus A. Thompson’s Faculty Recital
Fay Chandler Creativity Grant
Luciana Souza. Credit Kim Fox.
Luciana Souza
Brazilian-born vocalist and Grammy winner "organically crosses genre borders"
Rosa Colón Guerra. Courtesy of the artist.
Rosa Colón Guerra
Challenging colonialist narratives through board games
Joe Lovano. Photo: Jimmy Katz.
Joe Lovano
“One of the greatest musicians in jazz history”—New York Times
Kaynak Pipers Band. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Kaynak Pipers Band
Traditional kaba gaida folk music of Bulgaria
Simon Smith plays Stockhausen. Photos: Simon Smith (left), Credit: Delphian Records. Karlheinz Stockhausen (right), ©Getty Images, Credit: Erich Auerbach.
Simon Smith
Masterful and intrepid Stockhausen concert
Nik Bärtsch's Mobile. All rights reserved
© 2015 by Christian Senti and Ronin Rhythm Productions
Nik Bärtsch’s MOBILE
Rigorously conceptual zen-funk
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Website, 2015, designed and engineered by NODE/Bengler. Photo: NODE/Bengler.
On the Record
Creating new shared territories for discursive and collaborative practices
duoJalal. Courtesy of the artists.
duoJalal
"Fearless seekers and synthesizers of disparate instruments and cultures” —Toronto Star
Guillermo Klein. Credit Andrea Bocallini.
Guillermo Klein
A stellar collision of vocal jazz, Latin music, and poetry
Tomás Saraceno, Aerocene, GrandPalais, 2015. Photo: Studio Saraceno.
Behind the Artwork: Tomás Saraceno’s Aerocene Project
“With Lodovica [Illari] and Bill [McKenna], we are trying to reimagine how human beings will navigate around the world,” says artist Tomás Saraceno, describing the lofty goal of his Aerocene project. These emission-free floating sculptures, made from silver and transparent … Continued
Johnny Gandelsman performs in MIT Kresge Auditorium, February 2020. Credit: Leon Yim.
