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Dissolve Music @ MIT
Building W97, black box theater
345 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA 02139
Free, open to the public, all ages
Oct. 2 (Thu)
7:00pm - 9:00pm (doors 6:30pm): MUSIC performances in order + reception to follow
William Smith
electroacoustic spatial composition
Leftroman (Ian Condry)
spatial beats and bass, new album premiere
dragonchild
4-LP vinyl octophonic composition
Switch Angel with LOFI.SCIFI
live coding music and generative video
Oct. 3 (Fri)
3:00-4:30pm lightning TALKS and discussion, free and open to the public
Featured speakers (roughly 10 min. talks + 10 min discussion for each) expected order:
Portrait XO
American musician based in Berlin will discuss her experience with AI and music production.
Alejandro Cabrera
Founder, Audio Brewers, ambisonics software for music production and listening
Miyuki Tanaka
Curator and author from Japan who works on sound and disability justice
Kyle Keane
Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol (UK), frontiers of accessible technology
7:00-9:00pm (doors 6:30pm): MUSIC performances in order + reception to follow
Manaswi Mishra
improvised music for the futures of AI instruments, based at MIT
Christian Frederickson, Dan Safer, Ishmail Houston-Jones
original music and freeform dance from MIT Theater w/ friend
Nelly Kate, Justin Looper, Access Lab and Library
improvised sound, live captions, transistors in translation, Lab co-organizers
Portrait XO
music and AI, sound and visuals, based in Berlin
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DESCRIPTION:
Dissolve Music @ MIT is a two-day spatial sound showcase and conference, welcoming local scholars and artists as well as others from Japan, Europe, Australia, and across the US. Held in MIT’s black box theater in Music and Theater Arts’ building W97, the event aims at community building to connect students, faculty, musicians and technologists through performances, discussions, lighning talks, and receptions.
This is a project of the MIT Spatial Sound Lab, a community studio since 2019 to explore the social, artistic and technological potential of creating music and sound art that comes from all directions. Our aim is to dissolve boundaries between sound art and music, between academic disciplines, and between audience and performers.
The 2025 edition will be the fifth iteration of the event, featuring artists from MIT, Berlin, Tokyo, Athens, Melbourne, NYC and beyond. Focal themes this year include accessibility, inclusiveness, AI and creativity, and the social possibilities of spatial sound for live performance.
MORE INFO about the Lab and events: spatialsoundlab.mit.edu
RSVP, contact: Ian Condry,
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This event made possible with generous support:
Global Mediations Lab MIT,
MITHIC Sound Lab Unworking Group,
MIT Office of the Arts,
Comparative Media Studies / Writing (dept),
Music and Theater Arts (dept)
MIT Morningside Academy for Design,
and the numerous artists and volunteers affiliated with
the MIT Spatial Sound Lab.
Special thanks to my co-organizers, Justin Looper and Nelly Kate too.
We hope to see you there!
Best,
Ian
Ian Condry, Professor, MIT
Writings, music, radio:
https://linktr.ee/iancondry
MIT Spatial Sound Lab
https://sites.mit.edu/spatialsoundlab
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