All CAST Projects

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
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.
Terri Lyne Carrington. Credit: Jacobs.
Terri Lyne Carrington
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.
Natalia deCampos and Fabio Tavares perform in a workshop of Immense Joy/Hots. Credit: Ana Busto.
Immense Joy / H.o.t.S
Clarice Lispector’s brutal and tender exploration of what it truly means to be poor
Hearing Amazonia performance, MIT Kresge Auditorium, November 2021. Image Credit: Danny Goldfield.
Hearing Amazônia–The Responsibility of Existence
Exploring the plight of the natural world through Brazilian and Amazonian music
VALIS. Courtesy of Tod Machover.
VALIS
Reimagining live performance interactivity for a new generation
A Black History Month Celebration
Presented by Mass General Hospital and the Front Porch Arts Collective
Lion's Jaw. Courtesy of the artists.
Lion’s Jaw
Creating an environment where risk, rigor, and rebellion can flourish through dance
Cristina Parreño Alonso
Cristina Parreño Alonso’s Tectonics of Wisdom
Expanding architecture’s temporal sensibilities through the material ancient wisdom of the library
Portrait of Adesola Akinleye. Credit: Foteini Christofilopoulou.
Adesola Akinleye
Investigating the embodied choreography of urban space
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
Viola Ago and Hans Tursack. Courtesy of the artists.
Hans Tursack and Viola Ago’s Understorey
Toward a twenty-first century ecological design
Ian Hattwick. Courtesy of the artist.
Ian Hattwick’s Instrument Design as Artistic Practice
Discovering new sounds and new forms of music-making
Graham Jones. Courtesy of the artist.
Graham Jones and Seth Riskin’s Paranormal Machines
Detecting and measuring the mysterious
Lakaï Dance Theatre. Credit: Nadelle Scott.
Lakaï Dance’s The Block: An Afro-Musical
Sharing personal stories and narratives through movement
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.