Golden City Album Cover. Courtesy of Miguel Zenón.
Faculty Projects
KINETIC. Photo credit: Ben Doyle
Kinetic Ensemble
“Agile virtuosity and vibrant sound… brilliantly executed” — Arts and Culture Texas
Ekene Ijeoma, featuring Dr. Kristín Taylor, Dr. Bryan Stanley, Deconstructed Anthems: Nebraska 12 (2015)
2021.
Software-generated score, incarceration data, piano, machine-plotted ink drawings, duration 18:12 min. Installation view, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, USA
Photo by Colin Conces courtesy of Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts
Sonifying the increasing loss of Black Americans to carceral systems
*Spider's Canvas / Arachnodrone*, Palais de Tokyo, 2018. Credit: Aurelie Cenno.
Arachnodrone
A three-dimensional spider web soundscape
Xavi Laida Aguirre'sProofing: Resistant and Ready at the Venice Biennale, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
Proofing: Resistant and Ready
Exploring the promises and pitfalls of plasticity
Testbeds Pilot Project, The Garden by the Bay Community Garden in Edgemere, Queens.
Testbeds
A new life for the byproducts of architectural design
One of the augmented-reality motifs in the new production of “Parsifal” at Bayreuth, directed by Jay Scheib. Credit: Bayreuth Festival
Parsifal
Augmenting Richard Wagner’s Bühnenweihfestspiel, Parsifal
A digital rendering of the Green Mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan, a 16th Century building. Image: Nikolaos Vlavianos.
Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan
Generating digital twins to document endangered heritage sites in Afghanistan
Kazuko Ishii and a black telephone, TeleAbsence. Image courtesy of Hiroshi Ishii.
TeleAbsence
Addressing the vast emotional distance caused by the loss of a loved one
Map courtesy of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.
Native America: The Choctaw Music of Charles Shadle
Capturing contemporary classical music by a living Choctaw composer
Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
A punk-rock mentality breathes new life into a 350-year-old art form
Ken Urban's The Conquered. Courtesy of the artist.
The Conquered
A new multimedia theater piece inspired by innovations in neurotechnology
Be Aware of Droplets and Bubbles, by Lydia Bourouiba and Argha Manna.
A Paradigm Shift in Infectious Diseases
Critical role of paradigm shifts in science illustrated through respiratory infectious disease transmission
Dancers of the Oakland Ballet Company perform at the Dancing Moons Festival at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in Oakland, California, Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022.
Ballet des Porcelaines
A story of magic, desire, and exotic entanglement
DesignEarth's Climate Inheritance, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.
Climate Inheritance
World Heritage at Risk
Two Mobility Futures, 2022, MIT. Courtesy of the artists.
Two Mobility Futures 0∞
Divergent futures where humans move constantly, or not at all
The Hammer and the Feather is an immersive audio and visual installation, developed at MIT by technical instructor Christian Frederickson and visual artist and filmmaker Greg King. Bridging humanistic and scientific inquiry, the piece uses gravity as a poetic and conceptual departure point for musical, visual, and sonic material.
Photo by Danny Goldfield
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The Hammer and the Feather
Exploring the sonic poetry of gravity
Rania Ghosn/DESIGN EARTH, The Planet After Geoengineering, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
The Planet After Geoengineering
Speculative futures for planet Earth
Promesa Board Game: Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play. Image credit: HErickson/MIT.
Promesa: Voicing Counter Colonialism Through Board Game Creation
Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play
Rendering for See Us Seesaw Together. Credit: Ana Miljacki and the Critical Broadcasting Lab.