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[R]Evolution of Hip Hop Breakbeat Narratives
“Hip hop is much more than a musical genre. It is a global phenomenon, with a rich history and massive social and cultural impact. We wanted to tell stories that pushed beyond stereotypical representations, digging into the complexities of empowering … Continued
An immersive museum installation that is conversational and personalized for each viewer
Stream_l__i___n____e_____s (after Robert Lawrence)
“This project reflects the many ways in which computational capabilities are expanding our understanding of what can be musical and the tools with which we compose new music.” — Matthew Schumaker, Project Lead and Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar, … Continued
A musical piece for clarinet and computer honors a pioneering jet pilot
Tutti
“[Tutti] is an example of using our mobile devices to enrich our lives musically in new ways—letting us have virtual experiences—such as feeling what it is like to be a musician.” –Eran Egozy, Project Lead and Professor of the Practice, … Continued
An interactive music-making experience that gives audiences the chance to perform using cellphones as instruments
Sound and Technology Unlock New Innovation at MIT
Sound is a powerfully evocative medium, capable of conjuring authentic emotions and unlocking new experiences. This fall, several cross-disciplinary projects at MIT probed the technological and aesthetic limits of sound, resulting in new innovations and perspectives, from motion-sensing headphones that … Continued
Ian Condry’s “Dissolve Music”
Dissolving boundaries between arenas of sonic engagement to identify paths towards alternative, more inclusive futures
Seeing/Sounding/Sensing
SEEING / SOUNDING / SENSING
A symposium hosted by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)
September 26-27, 2014
MIT Media Lab, 6th Floor
75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Art, science, and technology are ways of knowing and changing the world. These disciplines frequently draw from one another, yet their devoted practitioners rarely have the opportunity for high-level intellectual and cultural exchange. “Seeing / Sounding / Sensing” was an intensive two-day event at MIT that invited creative artists to join with philosophers, cognitive neuroscientists, anthropologists, historians and scholars from a range of disciplines in an open-ended discussion about knowledge production. The two-fold goal was to challenge each domain’s conventional certainty about “what is known,” “how we know it,” or “how we can know more” and to stimulate new issues for possible cross-disciplinary scholarship in the future.
Alvin Lucier
A legendary composer blurs the lines between experiment, composition, and art installation
Visiting Artist Florian Hecker’s Sound Art Explores “Auditory Chimera”
2011 Visiting Artist Florian Hecker, a renowned sound artist, releases the publication, Chimerizations, based on work developed at MIT.
Michael Scott Cuthbert: Medieval Music, Digitally Reconstructed
Only at MIT would a musicologist writing a book on sacred medieval music also run a research lab. It was in this lab that Michael Scott Cuthbert, associate professor of music at MIT, developed “music21,” an open-source toolkit he describes as a “program for writing programs.”
Inventor-Composer Trimpin at MIT
Reposted from MIT News Trimpin — he goes by his surname only — first immigrated to the United States in 1979 because there was not enough junk in his native Germany. In the scrapyards and Boeing surplus stores in Seattle, … Continued