Middle Eastern Ensemble
Garo Saraydarian, Director
Killian Hall, MIT
Come hear music from the Arabic, Turkish, Greek, and Klezmer traditions!
Please note that this event is in-person only and will not be livestreamed.
As a graduate student, Leslie Tilley spent years studying and practicing the music of Bali, Indonesia, including a traditional technique in which two Balinese drummers play intricately interlocking rhythms while simultaneously improvising. It was beautiful and compelling music, which Tilley heard...
The Past Can Be Changed: How RADWIMPS Drummer Satoshi Yamaguchi Reclaimed Music Through Neuroscience Research and Voice-Controlled Drums
This lecture-performance focuses on the life lessons Satoshi Yamaguchi has learned through major turning points marked by both success and setback as a...
Thirteen Notes to Musical Fluency: How Brains Learn the Impossible
This talk explores how brains learn unfamiliar musical structures using the Bohlen-Pierce scale—a tritave-based tuning system—as a culturally neutral research paradigm. By studying learners , this work reveals fundamental...
Rocking With the Machine: Jordan Rudess and the Future of Live AI Music
Jordan Rudess, Grammy-winning keyboardist of the progressive metal band, Dream Theater, has consistently pushed the limits of keyboard technology, performance expression, and the relationship between human creativity and...
Sonic Alchemy: Transmuting the Everyday into Music
How do we design instruments that invite exploration? How does changing the sound of your own body change how you experience the world or even who you are? What music hides in forgotten objects, and how can we reveal it? This talk presents 20...
Keeril Makan has been appointed vice provost for the arts at MIT, effective Feb. 1. In this role, Makan, who is the Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Music Composition Professor at MIT, will provide leadership and strategic direction for the arts across the Institute.
Provost Anantha Chandrakasan...
Talk: Exploding Musical Myths, from Robert Johnson to Bob Dylan and Beyond
About the Speaker
Elijah Wald is a musician, writer, and historian known for exploring and exploding popular myths of music history. He has toured the world as a solo performer and played and recorded with the founding...
a dance performance re-visioning womanhood and sexuality
Performances:
Thursday, February 5 at 7:30 pm
Friday, February 6 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 7 at 7:30 pm
All performances in Building W97 Theater
Co-created by Lilach Orenstein and Sara Brown
Choreographed by Lilach Orenstein...
a dance performance re-visioning womanhood and sexuality
Performances:
Friday, February 6 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 7 at 7:30 pm
All performances in Building W97 Theater
Co-created by Lilach Orenstein and Sara Brown
Choreographed by Lilach Orenstein
Environment designed by Sara Brown...
