Evan Ziporyn, Keeril Makan, and Christine Southworth are featured on Sarah Cahill's highly acclaimed new CD, Eighty Trips Around the Sun: Music by and for Terry Riley. The pieces were all commissioned by MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology and received their world premieres at MIT Sounding during the Terry Riley 80th Birthday Tribute in the spring of 2016.

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Keeril Makan named vice provost for the arts

An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music

Leslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.

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 …”