Finding harmony with big data
If you ever use Spotify, or a similar music-streaming service, there’s a good chance your song recommendations, and other personalized features, are powered by novel technology developed and marketed...
View ArticleBook explores the "Musical Institute of Technology"
As many have discovered, MIT’s centers of excellence include the arts as well as the sciences and technology. One great strength of the arts at MIT is the Institute's music program, which welcomes all...
View ArticleSharing a passion for music and interactive technology
While an undergraduate at MIT, Eran Egozy never took a class that combined his passions for computers and music. That's because when he was an undergraduate in the early '90s, there weren't any. Today...
View ArticleMIT in London
“Here in London, you can feel like you’re part of history and that you’re on the cutting edge at same time — it’s a great fusion,” says Noam Angrist ’13, a Rhodes Scholar who shuttles between the U.K....
View ArticleCreating “big, beautiful things”
Garrett Parrish grew up singing and dancing as a theater kid, influenced by his older siblings, one of whom is an actor and the other a stage manager. But by the time he reached high school, Parrish...
View ArticleImagination off the charts
“Being at MIT consistently reminds me of how wonderful it is when people think beyond the surface level — up and down to other realms of things,” Jacob Collier said from the Kresge Auditorium stage on...
View ArticleArts benefactor makes lead gift for new MIT music building
Joyce Linde, a longtime supporter of MIT and the arts, has made a cornerstone gift to build a new state-of-the-art music facility at the Institute.“Our campus hums with MIT people making music, from...
View ArticleSound and technology unlock 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...
View ArticleHacking Commencement
In the finest MIT tradition of community-driven innovation, the Commencement Committee and a core group of engineers, technologists, and artists across campus are putting minds and hands to work to...
View ArticleNavigating uncertainty through song
It was his first week on campus, and like most first-year students, Alberto Naveira felt overwhelmed. On top of the usual college fears, he felt trapped between two worlds — his familiar, small,...
View ArticleMusic library hosts concerts
The normally quiet, studious atmosphere of the Rosalind Denny Music Library (Room 14E-109) will be transformed twice this month as the library becomes the site of live concerts featuring works from its...
View ArticleJazzy birthday planned for Pomeroy
Herb Pomeroy was just 33 and already a nationally known soloist, bandleader and teacher when he was asked to direct MIT's jazz ensemble in the spring of 1963. He said he found the existing ensemble...
View ArticleThere’s a symphony in the antibody protein the body makes to neutralize the...
The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT Professor Markus Buehler marked the occasion by writing “Protein Antibody in E Minor,” an orchestral piece...
View ArticleLife in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
As a not-so-distant future that includes space tourism and people living off-planet approaches, the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is designing and researching the activities humans will...
View ArticleProfessor brings papal music to Wind Ensemble
Music composed by Institute Professor John Harbison and commissioned by the late Pope John Paul II to open the 2004 Papal Concert of Reconciliation will lead the program presented by the MIT Wind...
View ArticleAardvark trumpets Jazz Month
Jazz up your weekend with a little "Trumpet Madness."The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra (AJO) under the direction of MIT Lecturer Mark Harvey will be performing its spring concert on Saturday, April 30,...
View ArticleHarmonix keeps innovating, with lasting impact
Every holiday season, a popular new video game causes a disproportionate amount of hype, anticipation, and last-minute shopping. But few of those games offer an entirely new way to play. Even fewer...
View ArticleMachine learning and the arts: A creative continuum
Sketch a doodle of a drum or a saxophone to conjure a multi-instrumental composition. Look into a webcam, speak, and watch your mouth go bouncing across the screen — the input for a series of...
View ArticlePamela Z: Singing the body electric
In the mid-1980s, artist Pamela Z was working at Tower Records on Columbus Street in San Francisco, where one of her jobs was replacing pages in the store’s Phonolog, an enormous alphabetized directory...
View ArticleKeeril Makan named associate dean of MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and...
MIT Professor Keeril Makan has been named associate dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), effective July 1. Agustín Rayo, the Kenan Sahin Dean of SHASS, says Makan...
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