'Library Music' - installation and workshop at the Lewis Music Library
Tod Machover, Peter Munstedt, Media Lab grad students
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Come help vibrate and pulsate the usually sedate Music Library!
The MIT Media Lab and the Lewis Music Library are collaborating to present 'Library Music', a group of interactive music installations that explore the relationship between space, movement, touch and sound. Curated by Professor Tod Machover, these ten experiences were created by Media Lab grad students and range from musical stairs to tactile rainfall to a sonorous, robotic chandelier.
Contact: Ariane Martins, E15-443, x3-1613, ariane@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Media Arts & Sciences
Cosponsor: Libraries
Installation
Tod Machover, Peter Munstedt, Media Lab grad students
Students' installations open to the public.
Tue Jan 16, Wed Jan 17, Thu Jan 18, 03-05:00pm, Lewis Music Library
Workshop / Demonstration
Tod Machover, Peter Munstedt, Media Lab grad students
In this culminating workshop/demonstration, the student designers will explain the how, what and why of their installations and will be available to guide visitors through each experience. In addition, the Lewis Music Library staff will share some of its hidden treasures that are particularly relevant in this context. Refreshments will be served!
Fri Jan 19, 02-05:00pm, Lewis Music Library
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Bang Your Head! - Heavy Metal 101
Jeffrey Pearlin
Wed Jan 31, 06-08:00pm, 14N-225
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 29-Jan-2007
Single session event
Not Metallurgy! This crash-course will have you Head Banging, Air Guitaring, and Devil Horn Raising in no time! Learn everything you ever wanted to know about Heavy Metal, including who’s cool, who isn’t, why louder DOES mean better, and so much more! By the end of this one-time 1-2 hour (depending on how much fun we’re having) class you will know why Metallica used to be cool, why Ballads never were, and why Lemmy IS God. We’ll watch some video clips, look at some cool websites, and, of course, listen to some SCREAMING HEAVY METAL! This is guaranteed to be the most BRUTAL class ever offered at MIT!
Web: http://web.mit.edu/pearlin/www/
Contact: Jeffrey Pearlin, 14N-305, x3-9776, pearlin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Jeffrey W Pearlin, 14N-305, 617 253-9776, pearlin@mit.edu
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Change Ringing in the Tower
Amy Moore, James Whiting, Mish Madsen
Thu Jan 11, 06:30-09:00pm, Lobby 7
Sat Jan 13, 10:30am-01:00pm, Lobby 7
Thu Jan 18, 06:30-09:00pm, Lobby 7
Sat Jan 20, 10:30am-01:00pm, Lobby 7
Thu Jan 25, 06:30-09:00pm, Lobby 7
Sat Jan 27, 10:30am-01:00pm, Lobby 7
Thu Feb 1, 06:30-09:00pm, Lobby 7
Sat Feb 3, 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 fare 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
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Do You Like to Sing? Ever Thought of Being in a Science Oratorio?
Joice Himawan North Cambridge Family Opera Company, David Bass, Ellen Bluestein (Cambridge Science Festival), Kate Bernhardt (Cambridge Science Festival)
Tue Jan 16, 06-08:00pm, Morse School, Auditorium, 40 Granite St.
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
For the MIT Museum’s new community initiative, the Cambridge Science Festival (April 21-29), the North Cambridge Family Opera Company is creating a multi-generational chorus to perform three free concerts of the American premiere of the Science Oratorio, Lifetime: Songs of Life and Evolution, by contemporary English composer David Haines. This 90-minute choral presentation, comprised of 22 musical selections, explores the science of life and evolution. The Festival Chorus is open to anyone in the MIT community with a desire to sing, regardless of vocal skill or training.
Open Rehearsal and Registration is on Jan. 23, 6-8pm at the Morse School Auditorium, 40 Granite St., Cambridge. Regular rehearsals will be Tues., Jan. 23-Apr. 17, 6:00-7:30pm, at the Morse School.
Web: http://www.familyopera.org
Contact: Joice Himawan, (617) 354-2797, jhimawan@alum.mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum
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ESG Musical Concert
Graham Ramsay
Fri Jan 19, 01-02:00pm, 24-612
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
An informal concert will be presented featuring the musical talents of ESG staff, students, and alumni. The concert is free and open to the entire MIT community.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg
Contact: Graham Ramsay, 24-604, x8-0481, ramsay@mit.edu
Sponsor: Experimental Study Group
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Electronic Music Production
Robert Bryant
Tue Jan 16, Thu Jan 18, Tue Jan 23, Thu Jan 25, 08-09:00pm, TBA
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: interest in electronic music
An overview of what it takes to produce electronic music using industry software, what's going on technically when one does that, and gain hands-on experience in actual music composion. Focus is not on music theory but on providing skills for making electronic music.
Will meet in 37-312; please email robertb@mit.edu if interested.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/robertb/www/iapmusic/
Contact: Robert Bryant, robertb@mit.edu
Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Cosponsor: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
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FiLmprov
Mark Harvey
Fri Jan 26, 07:45-10:00pm, 14W-111,Killian Hall
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none
FiLmprov: the animated films of Kate Matson featuring vocalist Lisa Thorson with improvisation by Mark Harvey, music director, and ensemble drawn from his Aardvark Jazz Orchestra. this theater of visual improvisation has been presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard University, in private screenings in New York City, and at Sangha in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Contact: Mark Harvey, 10-277, x2-3205, mharvey@mit.edu
Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts
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Handbell Ensemble
Amy Moore
Wed Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 07-09:00pm, TBA
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Come practice handbells with us! We're a relatively new handbell group looking for a few more people. We've had two concerts so far and are planning another one this Spring, with music from Gershwin to Pachelbel to "Early One Morning" to Disney. No experience is necessary (really!), and all levels of experience are welcome.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/bellringers/www
Contact: Amy Moore, amymoore@mit.edu
Sponsor: Guild of Bellringers
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Introduction to Change Ringing on Handbells
Amy Moore, James Whiting, Cally Perry, Elaine Hansen
Mon Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, 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
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Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ)
Generoso Fierro
Wed Jan 31, 06-08:00pm, 50-030
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2007
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Checking levels, making a segue, cueing vinyl (vinyl-what's that?)
Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show. Then, learn some history of WMBR (the first punk rock radio show in the USA), have a tour of the station and obtain membership information.
Freshly baked cookies and milk will be provided because Andy would've wanted it that way.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 13-2090, x3-5965, generoso@mit.edu
Sponsor: WMBR Radio
Cosponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Japanese Shakuhachi Workshop
Tenzin LS Priyadarshi, Phil Nyokai James
Sat Jan 27, 02-04:00pm, 24-110
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 12-Jan-2007
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
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Japanese Shakuhachi Workshop
Ven. Tenzin Priyadarshi, Phil Nyokai James
Sat Feb 3, 02-04:00pm, 24-110
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 14-Jan-2007
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
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: Ven. Tenzin Priyadarshi, W11-004, x4-6030, tenzin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Buddhist Community
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Mathematics Department Music Recital
Timothy Nguyen
Wed Jan 31, 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: Timothy Nguyen, 2-312, x4-1348, timothyn@math.mit.edu
Sponsor: Mathematics
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Middle Eastern Drumming
Rachel Shiffrin, George Kirby
Sun Jan 21, 07-09:00pm, W11 - Main Dining
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. If you have any interest in learning more about Middle Eastern culture this program is for you! Guest teacher George Kirby.
Contact: Rachel Shiffrin, W11-040, x3-2982, shiffrin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hillel
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Open Rehearsal: The Making of a Silent Film Score
Martin Marks
Sun Jan 14, 07-10:00pm, 14W-111 Killian Hall
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none
Come watch an All-MIT Student Chamber Orchestra do a live performance of a score for a silent film. The film is "Where Are My Children?", a tragedy about abortion, directed by Lois Weber (1915); the score is by MIT Senior Lecturer Martin Marks, and is to be arranged and conducted by Professor Allen Feinstein (Northeastern University). The film and score will be recorded and included in "Treasures III: Social Issues in American Silent Film, 1900-1934", a forthcoming 4-DVD boxed set, available fall 2007 through Image Entertainment.
Contact: Martin Marks, 10-268, x3-4967, mmmarks@mit.edu
Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts
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Opera - the Ultimate Dramatic Experience
David Collins M.Ed. pre-opera lecturer and historian for Opera Boston
Tue Jan 16, Thu Jan 18, Tue Jan 23, Thu Jan 25, 10:30am-01:00pm, 4-160
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none
Opera is the marriage of theater and music. In 4 sessions we explore the fascinating and addictive world of opera, using audio and video examples to follow the history of opera from the late Renaissance through the death of Puccini in 1924. Among the composers represented will be: Monteverdi, Rameau, Purcell, Handel, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Gounod, Offenbach, Verdi, Wagner, Richard Strauss and Puccini. Emphasis will be placed on understanding opera as a dramatic art form expressed through music. Consideration will be given to different dramatic aesthetics - crucial factors in a composer's approach to opera. This course is geared for both beginners and those wishing to expand their operatic horizons.
Contact: Steve Michaels, E38-400, x8-8104, michaels@ilp.mit.edu
Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts
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PULSE: American Music and Poetry from 1950 to 1970
Tomoyuki Iino
Mon Jan 22, 05-07:00pm, 1-246
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This is a two-hour single session designed to discuss the parallel relationships between the American music and poetry from the 1950s to 70s.
By the early fifties, as part of the postwar development of consumer society, a strange pulse had set in the music scene to bring about muzak or elevator music. As if to reflect this new trend, poets such as Robert Lowell and John Berryman started to write, almost on the same pulse, quasi-sonnet sequences.
In the late sixties, a more experimental type of pulse music was invented by such composers as Terry Riley and Steve Reich to be later labeled as minimalism. Again, the poetry caught up due to the efforts of John Ashbery and A. R. Ammons who wrote deliberately monotonous and distinctly open-ended sequences.
Some excerpts of poems will be read, some parts of music heard. Held in 1-246.
Contact: Tomoyuki Iino, 14N-207, x3-3599, kmtiino@gmail.com
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Pungmul (Korean Traditional Drumming) Workshops
Minyoung Jang, Seul-A Bae
Thu Jan 11, 18, 25, 1, 05-08:00pm, McCormick Dance Rm
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
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 STRONGLY encouraged. SIGN UP BEFORE EACH SESSION BY EMAIL so we can ensure that everyone will have a drum.
SCHEDULE IS TENTATIVE. FINAL SCHEDULE WILL BE ANNOUNCED BY MID-DEC. 2006.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/oori/www
Contact: Minyoung Jang, jang@mit.edu
Sponsor: Oori
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The Art of Listening to Jazz
Alain Pacowski Jazz guitarist and a Berklee College of Music graduate
Wed Jan 24, 31, 06-07:30pm, 4-160
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none
This is for the beginner. Truly appreciating Jazz goes beyond just listening to the music. We propose to cover the elements of jazz, including improvisation, harmony and instrumentation. We'll look at the history of jazz and examine the contributions of the legendary masters and innovators. We'll provide pointers to good jazz albums, radio programs, local jazz clubs, and the current scene. This will be done through a combination of lectures, audio/video clips and live demonstrations by one or two jazz musicians.
Contact: deva@alum.mit.ed
Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts
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