Angus Godwin vocal masterclass
William Cutter
Tue Jan 12, Wed Jan 13, 06-08:00pm, 4-156
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 25 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: Open to MIT Concert Choir, Chamber Chorus, Emerson vocalists
Angus Godwin, Professor Emeritus of Voice in the School of Music at Ithaca College for 38 years until his retirement in 2007, leads a vocal master class for current members of Chorus, Choir and the Emerson Music Scholarship Program. This is of particular use to those who have not had professional instruction in voice.
Contact: Nozomi Ando, 68-695, x8-7021, nando@mit.edu
Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts
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Bang Your Head! - Heavy Metal 101
Jeffrey Pearlin
Thu Jan 28, 06-08:00pm, 14N-225, Bring earplugs!
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Signup by: 29-Jan-2010
Single session event
Not Metallurgy! Now in its fourth year, 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 2 hour 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 metal culture, 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, 253-9776, pearlin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Jeffrey W Pearlin, 14N-329B, 617 253-9776, pearlin@mit.edu
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Build Your Own Electric Guitar
John Armstong
Tue Jan 5, 12, 19, 26, 06-08:00pm, W31-031 Hobby Shop
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 11-Dec-2009
Limited to 5 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Hobby Shop membership
Fee: 50.00 for Materials and Guitar Parts
Students will select one from several designs (Stratocaster/Telecaster guitars; Precision/Stingray bass). In Dec. each student, with John’s help, will select wood and components – including the neck, to be ordered. Starting with raw lumber, students will prepare a solid or semi-hollow body blank using a system of router templates, transforming the blank into a completed body ready for finishing. Class fee of $50 will cover shop materials and a copy of Make Your Own Electric Guitar by M. Hiscock. Students will individually purchase all other materials and components. Costs will vary; typical minimum cost ~ $350 for a basic Telecaster or Precision Bass. No prior skills are needed for this class. The class will continue until Feb. 23. Shop time outside of class will be needed to complete instrument.
Contact: Ken Stone, W31-031, x3-4343, kenstone@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hobby Shop
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Change Ringing in the Tower
Danielle Morse, James Whiting, Asher Kaboth, Dale Winter
Tue Jan 5, 06:30-09:00pm, Meet in Lobby 7, T fare provided. Open Session
Sat Jan 9, 10:30am-01:00pm, Meet in Lobby 7, T fare provided. Open Session
Wed Jan 13, 07:45-09:00pm, Meet in Lobby 7, T fare provided.
Sat Jan 16, 10:30am-01:00pm, Meet in Lobby 7, T fare provided.
Wed Jan 20, 07:45-09:00pm, Meet in Lobby 7, T fare provided.
Sat Jan 23, 10:30am-01:00pm, Meet in Lobby 7, T fare provided. Open Session
Wed Jan 27, 07:45-09:00pm, Meet in Lobby 7, T fare provided.
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Change ringing is the traditional British style of ringing bells. We follow mathematical patterns instead of sheet music to ring up to 8 large tower bells with each bell controlled by a single rope. We ring the bells at Church of the Advent and Old North Church in Boston.
We have organized a several open practices particularly to focus on beginners. We ask that you attend one of these sessions first before coming to our regular practices in order to get an in-depth introduction to change ringing and one-on-one instruction.
If you are unable to make one of these special sessions but are still interested in learning to ring, please contact us.
Please wear comfortable, warm clothes. No previous musical experience necessary. We often go out to for a bite to eat after practice, and you are welcome to join us.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/bellringers/www
Contact: Danielle Morse, bellringers@mit.edu
Sponsor: Guild of Bellringers
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Discover MIT's hidden music studio! Learn about music synthesis and music editing.
Molly Ruggles
Mon Jan 18, 02-04:00pm, NMC (26-139), Choose one. BRING FLASH DRIVE.
Wed Jan 20, 10am-12:00pm, NMC (26-139), Choose one. BRING FLASH DRIVE.
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Mon. Jan 18th 2-4PM: Little or no musical experience? Learn about Apple's Garage Band range of musical and sonic features. Become familiar and explore the software interface, its capabilities, musical and more. Bring flash drive.
Weds. Jan 20th 10am to noon: Requires some musical experience, familiar with reading music and using the piano keyboard. Explore basics of Apple's Garage Band to create musical compositions. Bring flash drive.
DO NOT SIGN UP FOR BOTH SESSIONS.
To sign up: email Molly Ruggles.
Limited to MIT students, faculty and staff
Contact: Molly Ruggles, NE48-308, ruggles@mit.edu
Sponsor: Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
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Double Organ Crawl
Leonardo Ciampa
Tue Jan 12, Tue Jan 26, 12-02:00pm, MIT Chapel & Kresge
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Become acquainted with the two historic Holtkamp pipe organs on campus. Before the computer, before the Industrial Revolution, the organ was the world's most complex piece of machinery. Learn what makes an organ work. Learn briefly about the history of organbuilding and what made Walter Holtkamp, Sr., the most avant-garde organbuilder of his time. And most importantly, hear these beautiful and majestic instruments, played in all their glory by Leonardo Ciampa. We will begin in the Chapel and, after a break for lunch, will continue over to Kresge.
Contact: Leonardo Ciampa, (617) 913-8647, leonardociampa@hotmail.com
Sponsor: Chaplain to the Institute
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ESG Musical Concert
Graham Ramsay
Fri Jan 22, 12:15-01:45pm, 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 after the concert. Please RSVP to Graham Ramsay (ramsay@mit.edu) by January 19th if you wish to attend the lunch.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg
Contact: Graham Ramsay, 24-610, x8-0481, ramsay@mit.edu
Sponsor: Experimental Study Group
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FiLmprov presents SPHERES
Mark Harvey
Fri Jan 29, 08-10:30pm, 14W-111
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none
Add live musical improvisation by world class jazz musicians to the animated film work of Kate Matson and roll into the world of FiLmprov! Join Mark Harvey of the Music and Theater Arts section/trumpet, Phil Scarff/saxes, Dan Zupan/clarinets and saxes, Bill Lowe/trombone and tuba, and John Funkhouser/string bass and piano as they provide the music of the SPHERES for a new program of visual and aural delights premiering at IAP 2010!
Web: http://filmprov.tripod.com
Contact: Mark Harvey, 10-277, x2-3205, mharvey@mit.edu
Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts
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Introduction to Change Ringing on Handbells
Cally Perry, Asher Kaboth, James Whiting, Danielle Morse
Mon Jan 4, 11, 07:30-09:00pm, 5-232 and 5-234
Mon Jan 18, 07:30-09:00pm, 36-155 and 36-156
Mon Jan 25, 07:30-09:00pm, 5-232 and 5-234
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: Danielle Morse, dmorsebell@gmail.com
Sponsor: Guild of Bellringers
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Mathematics Department Music Recital
Christoher Kottke
Wed Jan 27, 04-06:00pm, 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: Christoher Kottke, 2-488, x3-4097, ckottke@math.mit.edu
Sponsor: Mathematics
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Middle Eastern Drumming
Eliad Shmuel, George Kirby
Sun Jan 24, 07-09:00pm, W11 - Main Dinning R
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: Eliad Shmuel, W11-040, x3-2982, eliad@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hillel
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Musical Mechanical Engineers
Barbara Hughey
Tue Jan 12, 09am-05:00pm, 14W-111, morning hours ad lib
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 04-Jan-2010
Single session event
Participate in the first annual IAP Course 2 concert! Anyone affiliated with the ME Dept is invited to perform in a concert to be held in Killian Hall on Tuesday, Jan 12, time TBA. The hall will be available in the morning for run-throughs, and the concert will be in the afternoon. You may form your own group, or simply sign up and ask to be placed in a group. Information will be posted on the Wiki (link below) by mid-December.
Web: https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/2IAPCONCERT/Home
Contact: Barbara Hughey, 3-038, x2-1812, bhughey@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering
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The Art of Listening to Jazz
Alain Pacowski Jazz guitarist and a Berklee College of Music graduate
Wed Jan 20, 27, 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 and analyze the elements that create a jazz performance, including improvisation, interaction between the rhythm section and the soloist, and instrumentation. We look at the history of jazz and examine the contributions of the legendary masters and innovators. We provide pointers to good jazz albums, radio programs, local jazz clubs, and the current scene. This is through a combination of lectures, audio/video clips and live demonstrations by two jazz musicians. Email frenchbost@gmail.com for questions.
Contact: Priscilla Cobb, pcobb@mit.edu
Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts
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The Digital Caruso
Leonardo Ciampa
Tue Jan 5, Tue Jan 19, 12-01:00pm, MIT Chapel
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Modern technology allows us to hear the voice of Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), the most legendary operatic singer in history. Learn about the early recording techniques and the modern advances that have allowed us to hear Caruso's great voice with stunning fidelity. Recordings will be played in the beautiful acoustics of the Chapel.
Contact: Leonardo Ciampa, (617) 913-8647, leonardociampa@hotmail.com
Sponsor: Chaplain to the Institute
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The International Music Score Library Project and the Future of Digital Repositories
Edward W. Guo Harvard University
Fri Jan 22, 02-03:30pm, 14E-109 (Music Lib)
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 75 participants.
Single session event
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was started in 2006 by Edward W. Guo. According to the IMSLP website:
"It is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle, but it is also more than that. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's composition, which makes it an ever-growing musical community, by music lovers for music lovers."
Mr. Guo will talk about the IMSLP and his role in establishing this significant online music resource. He will also discuss other prominent digital repositories and their possible use in the future.
Web: http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
Contact: Peter Munstedt, 14E-109, x3-5636, pmunsted@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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