The Lontano Ensemble | The Language of Music Concert March 5, 2011 / 8:00 pm MIT Kresge Auditorium London’s renowned Lontano Ensemble, in residence at MIT in the spring of 2011, has had a profound and enduring impact on the contemporary … Continued
Fred Lerdahl | The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music March 5, 2011, 4:30–5:30 pm MIT Kresge Little Theater Fred Lerdahl, composer, theorist and Columbia University professor, led a discussion about the evolution of speech from song and played a … Continued
Peter Child | Musical Patois: Reflections of Language in Music March 5, 2011, 2:00-4:00 pm MIT Kresge Little Theater A composer, a neurobiologist, a pianist and a computer scientist walk into a lecture hall… You’ll find out what happens next in real … Continued
Pawan Sinha | Insights from New Sight March 5, 2011, 11:00 am-1:00 pm MIT Kresge Little Theater MIT Professor Pawan Sinha’s groundbreaking work on how the brain extracts meaning from sights and sounds has enabled him and his team both to … Continued