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Music

1-Bit Groovebox Workshoppe
Noah Vawter
Sat Jan 28, 10am-06:00pm, TBD

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 27-Jan-2006
Limited to 12 participants.
Single session event
Fee: 20.00 for costs not covered by grant.

Note: this class is now full! Sorry if you can't make it. A second round of kits will be prepared, send e-mail if you're interested. -Noah

A chance to build the 1-Bit Groovebox. I will have a number of kits available for a $20 studio fee for us to construct them. If you can bring a soldering iron, do so, it will make things go more quickly. If you have any custom parts you would like to use, such as special knobs, switches, or case, bring those.

Funded in part by a Director's Grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT.
Web: http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/projects/1bit/index.html
Contact: Noah Vawter, E15-020c, (617) 230-5047, nvawter@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Noah T Vawter, nvawter@mit.edu

Change Ringing in the Tower
Amy Moore, James Whiting
Thu Jan 12, 06:30-09:00pm, Lobby 7
Sat Jan 14, 10:30am-01:00pm, Lobby 7
Thu Jan 19, 06:30-09:00pm, Lobby 7
Sat Jan 21, 10:30am-01:00pm, Lobby 7
Thu Jan 26, 06:30-09:00pm, Lobby 7
Sat Jan 28, 10:30am-01:00pm, Lobby 7
Thu Feb 2, 06:30-09:00pm, Lobby 7
Sat Feb 4, 10:30am-01:00pm, Lobby 7

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session

Change ringing is the traditional British style of ringing bells, brought over to the States in colonial times. (Paul Revere was a bellringer.) We follow mathematical patterns instead of sheet music to ring up to 8 large tower bells (weighing up to a ton each!), with each bell controlled by a single rope.

We'll meet in Lobby 7 at 6:30pm Thursdays and 10:30am Saturdays, then head over to Boston to ring (T tokens supplied). Thursdays we ring at the Church of the Advent, near Beacon Hill, and Saturday mornings we're at the Old North Church in the North End. Come see the view out the top of the steeple, listen to us ring, and try it yourself. Previous musical experience is completely unnecessary.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/bellringers/www
Contact: Amy Moore, amymoore@mit.edu
Sponsor: Guild of Bellringers

ESG Musical Concert
Holly Sweet, Graham Ramsay
Mon Jan 23, 02-03:00pm, 24-612

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

ESG will be hosting a musical concert for the entire MIT community. Staff, students, and alumni from ESG will perform a range of styles of music on different instruments, with lunch served before the concert from 12:30-2. Please RSVP to Graham Ramsay (ramsay@mit.edu) if you wish to attend the lunch.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg
Contact: Holly Sweet, 24-612, x3-7786, hbsweet@mit.edu
Sponsor: Experimental Study Group

FiLmprov
Mark Harvey
Wed Jan 25, 08-11:00pm, 4-270, EVENT/RESERVATION #: 031ZG

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none

The animated films of Kate Matson with improvisation by Mark Harvey and members of Aardvark. This theater of visual improvisation has been presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University, and in private screenings in New York City.
Contact: Mark Harvey, 10-177, x2-3205, mharvey@mit.edu
Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts

Introduction to Change Ringing on Handbells
Amy Moore, James Whiting, Cally Perry, Elaine Hansen
Mon Jan 9, 16, 23, 07-10:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 30, 07-10:00pm, 3-442

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session

An introduction to the traditional British way of ringing bells called change ringing. Because of the way the bells are hung in a church tower, we do not ring tunes on the bells. Instead, we ring permutations of the bell orders by following particular mathematical patterns. Come hear about change-ringing, listen to us practice on handbells, and learn how to do it yourself.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/bellringers/www
Contact: Amy Moore, amymoore@mit.edu
Sponsor: Guild of Bellringers

Japanese Shakuhachi Workshop
Tenzin LS Priyadarshi, Phil Nyokai James
Sat Jan 21, Sat Feb 4, 02-04:00pm, 5-233

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 12-Jan-2006
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None

Learn to play the Japanese Shakuhachi Flute and its history. Shakuhachi is a traditional flute that has a longstanding association with Zen Buddhism in Japan.

Phil Nyokai James has been composing and performing his music for over thirty years. He is a licensed sensei (master) of the traditional Japanese shakuhachi flute. In reviewing Nyokai's solo CD "First Places," composer Stuart Dempster noted that it "provides the listener with spiritual nourishment bordering on the sacred." Nyokai lives in Portland Maine and teaches privately in Boston.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/metta/www/
Contact: Tenzin LS Priyadarshi, w-11-004, x4-6030, tenzin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Buddhist Community

Learn to Play a Musical Instrument
MIT Concert Band
Sun Jan 29, 5, 06-08:00pm, W20-307

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Bring your own horn.

Have you ever wanted to play a musical instrument? Come learn how with current members of the MIT Concert Band. We hold a music clinic Sundays during IAP with guided instruction for brand-new players of all instruments. You should bring your own horn (unless you wish to learn percussion): borrow one from friends or family, or contact the Concert Band to see if we have any extras.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/band/
Contact: MIT Concert Band, band-leaders@mit.edu
Sponsor: Concert Band, MIT

Mathematics Department Music Recital
Pak Wing Fok
Thu Jan 26, 03-05:00pm, Killian Recital Hall

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

This annual concert gives those in the mathematics community, together with family and friends, a chance to perform for each other. Come to play or listen.
Contact: Pak Wing Fok, 2-331, x3-5029, pakwing@math.mit.edu
Sponsor: Mathematics

Middle Eastern Drumming
George Kirby
Sun Jan 22, 08-10:00pm, W11 Main Dining Room

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Spend an evening learning Middle Eastern rhythms on the dara bukka/dumbeg, an hourglass-shaped drum. We will be learning and practicing a variety of rhythms and techniques, especially as used for folk dancing.

Bring your own drum if you have one.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/hillel
Contact: Rachel Shiffrin, W11-040, (617) 253-2983, shiffrin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hillel

Musical Composition Through Dissonance and Synthesis
Noah Vawter
Wed Jan 18, 01-05:00pm, Rm135 Media Lab E15

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

A computer music experiment...how it can be viewed as a series of varying levels of consonance and dissonance. Each of us will write a melody or brief song using only relative dissonance values- no notes!- and listen to each other's sequences.

I'll explain and demo a little about dissonance. I'll use software that generates sounds whose pitch is arbitrary, but dissonance level is very precise. Then, we'll all try melodies and software settings.

Expect a laid back, participatory atmosphere. If you can, bring your laptop so we can work in parallel. Expect to hear unusual music. If you're a musician, expect to return with unusual samples. If you really know what you're doing, write a synthesis method besides a melody. Maybe we will put up a page of our mp3s!
Web: http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/projects/DissonanceWorkshoppe/
Contact: Noah Vawter, E15-020c, (617) 230-5047, nvawter@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Noah T Vawter, nvawter@mit.edu

Pungmul (Korean Traditional Drumming) Workshops
Minyoung Jang
Mon Jan 9, 07-10:00pm, Kresge Rehearsal Rm
Sat Jan 14, 02-05:00pm, Kresge Rehearsal Rm
Mon Jan 16, 07-10:00pm, Kresge Rehearsal Rm
Sat Jan 21, 02-05:00pm, Kresge Rehearsal Rm
Mon Jan 23, 07-10:00pm, Kresge Rehearsal Rm
Sat Jan 28, 02-05:00pm, Kresge Rehearsal Rm
Mon Jan 30, 07-10:00pm, Kresge Rehearsal Rm
Sat Feb 4, 02-05:00pm, Kresge Rehearsal Rm

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None

Come learn the ancient traditional Korean art form of Pungmul! Involving drumming, dancing, and singing, pungmul is at least several hundreds years old and was performed during harvest time and new year's, as well as during ordinary farming routines. More recently, pungmul has been present in a wide variety of situations, from political protests to rap songs fusing western and Korean culture.

No experience is necessary and people from all cultural backgrounds are welcomed.

Attendence at all sessions is not mandatory but encouraged. Different rhythms and skills will be taught at each session. The sessions may culminate in a workshop and/or group retreat (details TBA).

This event is hosted by Oori, MIT's Pungmul Pae (Group).
Web: http://web.mit.edu/oori/www
Contact: Minyoung Jang, jang@mit.edu
Sponsor: Oori


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