Ken Urban Awarded Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights Creativity Fund

Ken Urban was awarded a Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights Creativity Fund from New Dramatists to support the development of my new play DANGER AND OPPORTUNITY.

A four-day workshop of the play will be directed by Steve Cosson (Artistic Director, The Civilians) and feature Maulik Pancholy (30 ROCK, WEEDS), Michael Cyril Creighton (SPOTLIGHT, HIGH MAINTENANCE) and Danielle Skraastad (NYTW’s HURRICANE DIANE).

The workshop will conclude with an invited reading on Friday, December 14th at 3pm. The play is a comedy about a married gay couple who decide to get romantically involved with an ex-girlfriend.

Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT.

Travels with Rambax

KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they get the summons: “Grab your drums, grab your drums, grab your drums …”

MIT launches new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program

A new, multidisciplinary MIT graduate program in music technology and computation will feature faculty, labs, and curricula from across the Institute.

FUTURE PHASES showcases new frontiers in music technology and interactive performance

Music technology took center stage at MIT during “FUTURE PHASES,” an evening of works for string orchestra and electronics, presented by the MIT Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program as part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC).