CAST Visiting Artist Billy Novick performs in The Great Clarinet Summit. Credit: Sham Sthankiya/MIT.
All CAST Projects
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.
Ken Urban. Credit Kevin Thomas Garcia.
Ken Urban’s The Immortals
Tapping theater’s ability to transform
Stephanie Frampton. Courtesy of the artist.
Stephanie Frampton’s ARTificial Intelligence
Examining emerging ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence
"All The Light That's Ours To See," Judith Barry, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
Judith Barry’s All The Light That’s Ours To See
Large-scale immersive installations
Brandon Clifford. Courtesy of the artist.
Brandon Clifford’s Filament: Megaphones at the New York Philharmonic
Breaking the proscenium tradition of the symphony
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
Dissolve Music
Ian Condry’s “Dissolve Music”
Dissolving boundaries between arenas of sonic engagement to identify paths towards alternative, more inclusive futures
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
Anna Kohler’s Mytho? Lure of Wildness
“A theatrical work about what looking feels like, to the muse and to her creator.” – Hilton Als, The New Yorker
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
Azra Aksamija, The Lightweaver, photomontage of a kinetic light installation for the Future Heritage Lab at the refugee camp Al Azraq, Jordan, 2017. Credit: Azra Aksamija.