Practice
Songs from Extrasolar Spaces featuring Boston's Lorelei Ensemble, 2019.
Elena Ruehr’s Songs from Extrasolar Spaces
Translating the cosmos into music
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
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
Johnny Gandelsman performs in MIT Kresge Auditorium, February 2020. Credit: Leon Yim.
Johnny Gandelsman
Violinist Gandelsman "plays with a balletic lightness of touch and a sense of whimsy and imagination" —Boston Globe
Informal development in the northern peripheries of Mumbai, India, 2015. Credit: Matthew Niederhauser, John Fitzgerald, and the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism
John Fitzgerald and Matthew Niederhauser
Capturing the pace and process of global suburbanization
Credit: Wikimedia
Chuck Hoberman
With Hoberman, MIT students invent new transformable mechanisms
2012
Santiago Calatrava. Credit Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times.
Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava is well known for his neofuturist style and his wild feats of engineering. The Milwaukee Art Museum, his first building in the United States, is famous for its shading “wings” that open and close in response to the position of the sun.
2005
