Victor Gama. Credit: Najib Nafib.
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Tristan Perich, 1 Bit Symphony, 2010. Credit: D Yee.
Tristan Perich
In composing, Tristan Perich opens up the sound-making possibilities of the raw machinery itself, always “getting one step closer to the flow of electricity through the microchip.
Hauschka performs at the CAST Marathon Concert. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Hauschka
Fueled by a love of rhythm, Hauschka’s (Volker Bertelmann) classicist training, chamber music sensibilities and pop cultural interests all come together to create playful, unpredictable and inventive music.
Florian Hecker. Credit: Leon Chew.
Florian Hecker
In his installations, live performances and publications, Florian Hecker’s psychoacoustic experimentations dramatize perceptions of sound and space in an immersive intensity.
Scanner and Stephen Vitiello. Credit: Meg Rotzel
Scanner and Stephen Vitiello
Sonic investigations into bodily experience and spatial practice
Alvin Lucier. Credit: Michael Schroeater.
Alvin Lucier
A legendary composer blurs the lines between experiment, composition, and art installation
SOUNDING
September 27, 2014
9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Media Lab, Building E14-674
Credit: Andy Ryan
Resonating MIT: MIT Students Explore Intersections of Sound and Architecture
Students create sound installations inspired by Visiting Artists Scanner, Stephen Vitiello, and Either/Or.
Florian Hecker performs at the MIT Chapel, 2011. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
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.
Credit: Tod Seelie
Mariel Roberts, Tristan Perich: New Music for Cello & Electronics
Cellist Mariel Roberts performs works by Tristan Perich, Pauline Olivares, Alex Mincek, and the world premiere of Evan Ziporyn’s “Old Growth” at MIT.
Michael Cuthbert
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.”
Pamela Z, Ars Electronica, 2008. Photo: Rubra.
Pamela Z
Transforming elegant physical gestures into complex aural and visual landscapes
Trimpin, Chicken Controllers, 2012. Credit: Josh Larios.
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
Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony
Tristan Perich writes music in 1s and 0s. His is an art determined by the binary on/off logic of the computer, an art in search of foundational laws. He is interested in processes, scripts, and scores: cyclical and infinite sets of rules that illuminate the possibilities and limitations of the knowable world.
Hauschka retraced John Cage’s steps by ‘preparing’ a piano for the 2013 CAST Marathon Concert.
HAPPY ACCIDENTS: Pamela Z and Hauschka
Guest post by Evan Ziporyn, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music at MIT and Inaugural Director of the Center for Art, Science & Technology. Pamela Z and Hauschka met only moments before their back-to-back lecture/demonstrations last Wednesday; two days later … Continued
Christopher Janney, "Soundstair On Tour, Rehearsal." 1979. Photograph: Anne Bray.
Music/Tech: Christopher Janney
In 1976, Christopher Janney was one of only four graduate students to enroll in MIT’s new masters program in Environmental Art, where he first began his formal experiments combining architecture and jazz under Otto Piene, Director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, founded in 1967. His thesis, “SOUNDSTAIR: The Nature of Environmental/Participatory Art,” was performed on many iconic stairways — from the Spanish Steps in Rome to MIT’s own Building 7 — in which the dancer’s footsteps would trigger sounds, altered in real-time by Janney. In essence, the entire building became a musical instrument.
Victor Gama plays the TOHA, 2012. Credit: Niklas Zimmer.
Visiting Artist Victor Gama Creates Futuristic New Instruments
Victor Gama is a composer whose process begins with the creation of an entirely new instrument, one whose design is steeped in symbolic meaning. Concept design, the selection of materials, fabrication, and scoring is all part of the rigorous way Gama creates new music for the 21st century, blending current fabrication technologies with ideas, materials, and traditions inspired by the natural world.
John Chowning playing the Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer at Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
Credit: Chuck Painter / Stanford News Service
Composing for Loudspeakers: Computer Music Pioneer John Chowning Visits MIT
In 1967, late one night in the eucalyptus-scented hills of Palo Alto, John Chowning stumbled across what would become one of the most profound developments in computer music. “It was a discovery of the ear,” says Chowning, who gave a … Continued
