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Image credit: Justin Knight.
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.

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Image credit: Justin Knight.
David Bowie's Blackstar performed by Maya Beiser with the Ambient Orchestra, 2017.

2017-18 MIT Sounding

Contemporary music with a global cast

The 2017–18 season of the innovative annual performance series MIT Sounding continues to blur the boundaries between contemporary and world music.

Curated by Evan Ziporyn, faculty director of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), this season of MIT Sounding integrates the avant-garde sounds of ancient instruments and traditional practices with cutting-edge composition and technology to present various visions of a new, evolving music that defies genre.

 

"Don't You Know," an original song from Jacob's debut album 'In My Room'.
"Don't You Know," an original song from Jacob Collier's debut album 'In My Room'. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

2016-17

Contemporary music with a global cast

The 2016-17 season of innovative annual performance series MIT Sounding continues to blur the boundaries between contemporary and world music. Curated by Evan Ziporyn, Faculty Director of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, this season of Sounding integrates the avant-garde sounds of ancient instruments and traditional practices with cutting-edge composition and technology to present various visions of a new, evolving music that defies genre.

 

Being Material, CAST Symposium, April 21-22, 2017
Being Material, CAST Symposium, April 21-22, 2017

Being Material

BEING MATERIAL
A symposium hosted by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)

April 21-22, 2017
MIT Samberg Conference Center, 6th & 7th floors, Building E52
50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139

In 1995, MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte predicted that “being digital” would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world. Two decades later, our everyday lives are indeed ever more suffused by computation and calculation. But unwieldy materiality persists and even reasserts itself. Programmable matter, self-assembling structures, 3D/4D printing, wearable technologies and bio-inspired design today capture the attention of engineers, scientists and artists. “BEING MATERIAL” showcased recent developments in materials systems and design, placing this work in dialogue with kindred and contrasting philosophy, art practice and critique. Panels on the PROGRAMMABLE, WEARABLE, LIVABLE and INVISIBLE—along with a concert, AUDIBLE—explored new and unexpected meetings of the digital and material worlds.

 

Book from MIT Press

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