Memorial concert to honor Edward Cohen
Edward Cohen (1940-2002), a classically trained musician inspired by jazz and devoted to new music, was greatly respected and loved as a colleague and teacher at MIT.When he passed away after teaching...
View ArticleHarbison's 'Milosz Songs' to premiere in New York
Institute Professor John Harbison has adapted texts by Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) for the New York Philharmonic, which will perform the song cycle, "Milosz Songs for...
View ArticleN.E. Philharmonic to premiere Peter Child choral work March 4
MIT composer Peter Child may have been born in England, but these days he's steeped in "Americana.""Americana" is the title of a program to be presented by the New England Philharmonic, where Child is...
View ArticleHarris gets grant for Handel work
Ellen T. Harris, the Class of 1949 Professor of Music, has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to broaden her research on "Messiah" composer George Frideric...
View ArticleOrchestra leader to bid farewell at concert May 17
Dante Anzolini, music director of the MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) since 1998, will conduct his farewell concert tonight, leading the symphony in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 7.The 8 p.m....
View ArticleGrad student's Hyperbow makes music to measure
A Ph.D. candidate in the Hyperinstruments Group of the MIT Media Lab has developed a new electronic sensing system to measure minute changes in the position, acceleration and strain of a violin bow.The...
View ArticleR.D. Lewis Music Library turns 10
The newly renovated Rosalind Denny Lewis Music Library opened its doors 10 years ago. Thanks to the generosity of Cherry Emerson (S.M. 1941) and other donors, the library added a mezzanine, new...
View ArticleMakan's '2' marks the moment when music and computing became one
"Almost every composer in my generation uses a computer," says Keeril Makan, who, like many of his peer group, seeks ways to incorporate digital media and cutting-edge technology into his music. Makan,...
View ArticleMedia Lab plans 'sonic bath' for Lewis Music Library
The Lewis Music Library will be transformed into what Tod Machover, professor of media arts and sciences, calls a "sonic bath" next week as graduate students from the Media Laboratory join him in a...
View ArticleJapanese hip-hop: from 50 Cent to mirror balls and world peace
Six months of hanging out in smoky, grungy "genbas," or Japanese hip-hop clubs, gave cultural anthropologist Ian Condry insight into how American rap music and attitudes were being transformed by the...
View ArticleICA presents Machover work
MIT Media Lab composer Tod Machover, known for his innovativeness as a musician and as a creator of new technology for musical instruments, will present an evening performance of work commissioned for...
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Alum 'zaps' Museum of Science April 27
Composer Christine Southworth (S.B. 2002) rehearses "Zap!," a composition in which the Van de Graaff generator provides static and flashing lights for her musical composition with flutes, guitar,...
View ArticleMIT's Makan wins Rome Prize
MIT professor Keeril Makan, a musician and composer acclaimed for his technique of layering recorded and live sounds, has been awarded the prestigious Luciano Berio Rome Prize for musical composition...
View Article'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech
Natural wood, with its unique grain patterns, is what gives traditional acoustic instruments warm and distinctive sounds, while the power of modern electronic processing provides an unlimited degree of...
View ArticleMusic at MIT hitting all the right notes
Later this month, the MIT community will celebrate the 70th birthday of one of America's most prominent and prolific composers with a special tribute concert and symposium.That the individual in...
View Article3 Questions: Evan Ziporyn on his new opera
While a master of many forms of music, Evan Ziporyn has a particular affinity for the sounds of Bali. Ziporyn, the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music, has been involved with Balinese gamelan...
View ArticleDisembodied performance
Later this month, the Opera of the Future Group at the MIT Media Lab will premiere Death and the Powers, an opera more than 10 years in the making. Featuring life-sized singing robots and a musical...
View ArticleVideo: The Paradiso Synthesizer
Video: Lucy Lindsey and Melanie GonickIn 1973, Media Lab associate professor Joe Paradiso was an undergraduate at Tufts University, and didn’t know anyone who had built an analog music synthesizer, or...
View ArticleComposing 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...
View ArticleWhen it comes to fostering innovation, student group says 'Do it!'
MIT fosters innovation and new ideas, but what if students don’t know what to do with their ideas or don’t understand approaches or methodologies for innovation? That’s where do.it@MIT — the Do...
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