Listen to the music of a spider’s web. Tell me what do you hear?
It is an eerie, foreboding, reverberating tune, enough to send a tingle down your spine.
April 13, 2021
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Scientists Turned Spiderwebs Into Music, And It’s Hauntingly Beautiful
Spiders rely on the vibrations in their webs to perceive their environment, and now we can hear their mysterious music.
April 12, 2021
https://hypebeast.com/
Ekene Ijeoma’s New ‘Breathing Pavilion’ Installation in Brooklyn is a Meditative Oasis
The inflatable pillars invite visitors to breathe along with its pulsing lights.
April 11, 2021
http://www.forbes.com/
Scientists Turn Spider Webs Into Spider Harps To Hear Spider ‘Voices’
Spiders don’t have great eyesight.
April 11, 2021
http://www.nytimes.com/
A Portrait of U.S. Linguistic Diversity, in Sound and Sign
The artist Ekene Ijeoma has been working on “A Counting,” an art project involving numbers and language, for more than a year. Now, a sign language edition has begun.
March 25, 2021
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Art is a bridge ‘between facts and feelings’ for MIT’s Ekene Ijeoma
Artist Ekene Ijeoma finds the humanity in data points.
March 25, 2021
https://pwcenter.org/
In The Lab: A Conversation with Ken Urban
An Interview With Ken Urban By Hayley Finn
January 19, 2021
https://lohdownonscience.com/
Viral Music
Chi-Yua Yu and Markus J. Buehler from MIT created a computer program that transforms viral proteins into music!
November 13, 2020
Image: Virtual Playwrights Lab 2020. Courtesy of Ken Urban.
The MTA Playwrights Lab turned a hurdle into a unique opportunity for its students and recent alumni
Going online expanded the Lab’s access to theater professionals, giving students and recent alumni a chance to learn new skills, refine their plays — and work with high-caliber actors and directors When Covid-19 forced the MIT campus to shut down … Continued
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Five things to do online and in person, Sept. 21-27
Watch the MTA Playwrights Lab—a collaboration between MIT students and professional theater artists—stage performance readings featuring the work of student writers.
September 18, 2020
www.metrowestdailynews.com/
MIT Music and Theater Arts announce 3rd annual Playwrights Lab
MIT Music and Theater Arts announce 3rd annual Playwrights Lab
September 17, 2020
https://www.broadwayworld.com/
Seven New Works and More In Development from Guerilla Opera Composers
The Coronavirus emergency left the landscape for the arts gloomy, but Guerilla Opera’s thirteenth season had successes which propelled the company into a new era of female leadership and artistry.
September 4, 2020
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com
A Nixon Deepfake, a ‘Moon Disaster’ Speech and an Information Ecosystem at Risk
A new video re-creates a history that never happened, showing the power of AI-generated media
July 20, 2020
https://www.thenation.com/
What Are Art Galleries For?
Three artists on the future of the gallery system after Covid-19.
July 1, 2020
http://www.nytimes.com/
This Theater Plans Dividers to Keep Patrons Socially Distanced
The Wilma, seeking to reopen in Philadelphia, says it will erect a new seating structure in which every party is in its own separate box.
July 1, 2020
http://www.wsj.com
A Scientist Turned the Coronavirus Into Music—Here’s What It Sounds Like
Translating the genetic code of virus proteins into music helps reveal their intricacies; sounds ‘a little like Zappa’
June 26, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com
More than 800 MIT graduates will sing one song together, virtually
Each person sings one note, explains the professor behind the idea, Eran Egozy
May 21, 2020
https://artery.wbur.org
5 Things To Do This Weekend, Including A Virtual Dumpling Class And A Floral Painting Workshop
With help from Opera of the Future group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, composer Tod Machover took samplings of cityscapes, vocalizations and texts from Philadelphians.
May 14, 2020
http://www.npr.org
Making Music Out Of The Coronavirus
Years ago, Markus Buehler developed a method to model proteins through music.
May 12, 2020
http://www.nytimes.com/
The Spaces That Make Cities Fairer and More Resilient
Our shared economy depends most on what happens in between.
May 12, 2020
Coronavirus the musical: U.S. scientists turn virus into melody to aid research
From tinkling harmonies as the virus disarms cells to clashing and stormy as it replicates, U.S. scientists have translated the novel coronavirus’ spiked protein structure to music in an effort to better understand the pathogen.
April 20, 2020
https://umbigomagazine.com/en/
The Opening Response: Jay Scheib
The Opening Response titles a special series of interviews with artists, curators, writers, composers, mediators, and space-makers around the world.
April 17, 2020
Coronavirus’s complex spiked structure inspires translation into music
Coronaviruses get their name from the crown of spikelike proteins that surround them. Now, the protein spikes of the novel coronavirus have been turned into an intriguing musical composition — one researchers hope could inspire new ways to fight the … Continued
April 11, 2020
https://science.sciencemag.org/
Scientists have turned the structure of the coronavirus into music
You’ve probably seen dozens of images of the novel coronavirus—now responsible for 1 million infections and tens of thousands of deaths. Now, scientists have come up with a way for you to hear it: by translating the structure of its … Continued
April 3, 2020
http://www.forbes.com/
Making New Proteins From Music
Last year, MIT researchers announced that they were turning the biochemical properties of proteins into music. Now, they’ve used those musical compositions to create entirely new proteins.
March 28, 2020