Jacob Collier article on MIT News

Sharon Lacey, Arts at MIT

Jacob Collier harmonizes with MIT

For his MIT residency, the Grammy-winning artist collaborates with over 150 student musicians to stage the monumental concert, "Imagination Off the Charts."
 

Sharon Lacey | Arts at MIT
February 24, 2017

A productive artist residency generally provides the yin to an artist’s yang. If daily life is distracting, for example, an artist may relish solitude. If, on the other hand, the artist is Jacob Collier, a self-contained singer-songwriter-performer-composer-arranger-producer who mostly works alone in his family’s London home music room, then collaborating with over 150 eager students may present a welcome change. Collier, the immensely talented 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist, known for his complex YouTube videos, his live multi-track one-man shows, his celebrated debut album, “In My Room,” and his two 2017 Grammy awards for his arrangements of “You and I” and “Flintstones,” was in residence at MIT in fall 2016.  MORE

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