Bang Your Head! - Heavy Metal 101 @ MIT
Jeffrey Pearlin, FL&L Systems Administrator
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Ears
Eight years strong, this crash course in all things Heavy Metal 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 awesome, who isn’t, why louder DOES mean better, and so much more!
New for 2014: A 4-part lecture series, Thursdays in January 2014 (details below).
Topics include: musicology; culture and iconography; history and development; why Judas Priest rules; why Metallica used to; and why Lemmy IS God.
This multimedia extravaganza promises to cover everything you ever wanted to know about Heavy Metal!
If you think that Poison is Metal (they're not), that ümlaüts häve nö pläce in the Ënglish längüage (they do), and can't tell the difference between Black Sabbath and Bon Jovi (hell, if you think Bon Jovi is listenable, for that matter), then you can't afford to miss this series. This is guaranteed to be the most BRUTAL class ever offered at MIT!
Visit http://metal.mit.edu for more information and more metal.
WARNING: This series most definitely goes to 11! Earplugs optional.
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages and Literatures
Contact: Jeffrey Pearlin, 14N-308, 617 253-9776, pearlin@mit.edu
| Jan/09 | Thu | 05:00PM-06:00PM | 14N-217 |
A one-hour introduction to Heavy Metal. Topics include the musicology of Heavy Metal as well as an examination of Heavy Metal culture. This multimedia extravaganza covers everything you ever wanted to know about Heavy Metal!
WARNING: This seminar most definitely goes to 11! Earplugs optional.
Jeffrey Pearlin - FL&L Systems Administrator
| Jan/16 | Thu | 05:00PM-06:00PM | 14N-217 |
A one-hour seminar examining the history of Heavy Metal from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Topics include Hard Rock, Archetypal Heavy Metal, and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM).
Warning: This seminar most definitely goes to 11! Earplugs optional.
Jeffrey Pearlin - FL&L Systems Administrator
| Jan/23 | Thu | 05:00PM-06:00PM | 14N-217 |
A one-hour seminar examining the history of Heavy Metal from the early 1980s through the early 1990s. Topics include Power Metal, Thrash, the Big 4, post-Thrash, Grunge and New American Metal.
Warning: This seminar most definitely goes to 11! Earplugs optional.
Jeffrey Pearlin - FL&L Systems Administrator
| Jan/30 | Thu | 05:00PM-06:00PM | 14N-217 |
A one-hour seminar examining the history of Heavy Metal from the early 1990s to the present. Topics include Extreme Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, and Experimental/Avant-garde Metal.
Warning: This seminar most definitely goes to 11! Earplugs optional.
Jeffrey Pearlin - FL&L Systems Administrator
Bellringing in Towers
Dennis Wilson, Naomi Schurr
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
What we do: Ring tower bells in permutations (n!), like Paul Revere (and a bunch of English people) at Old North Church and Church of the Advent in Boston. Learn change-ringing, 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.
Change ringing = Combinatorics + Music. Those changes in the order of the bells’ sounding that constitute a method are governed by 4 rules: (a) no bell may move more than one position at each change/row; (b) each bell sounds once in each row; (c) no row is repeated; and (d) the ringing begins and ends in Rounds.
Curious? Learn more on our group website, under the "Ring with Us" section: http://bellringers.scripts.mit.edu/www/, or just come on out and join us!
Please wear comfortable, warm clothes. No previous musical experience necessary. IAP is a great time for first-time learners! We often go out to eat after practice, and you are welcome to join us. The Guild of Bellringers is a secular organization. All are welcome.
Meet at Lobby 7 at the designated times (or let us know if you'll be there a little later, so we can wait for you.) T-fare to the tower is provided.
Sponsor(s): Guild of Bellringers
Contact: Dennis Wilson, (434) 214-0531, DENNISW@MIT.EDU
| Jan/08 | Wed | 06:30PM-08:30PM | Lobby 7 |
| Jan/15 | Wed | 06:30PM-08:30PM | Lobby 7 |
| Jan/22 | Wed | 06:30PM-08:30PM | Lobby 7 |
| Jan/29 | Wed | 06:30PM-08:30PM | Lobby 7 |
Rehearsal starts at 7pm, so we will meet in Lobby 7 at 6:30 to take the T to the Church of the Advent, which is in Beacon Hill. T fare is provided. Wear warm clothes as we will walk from Charles MGH station to the Church.
John Danaher
| Jan/12 | Sun | 02:00PM-04:00PM | Old North Church |
| Jan/18 | Sat | 11:00AM-01:00PM | Old North Church |
| Jan/26 | Sun | 02:00PM-04:00PM | Old North Church |
contact Richard Morse, pukku@mac.com
Dennis Wilson, Richard Morse
Boston Chamber Music Society Winter Concert
Marcus Thompson, Professor of Music
| Jan/18 | Sat | 03:00PM-06:00PM | Kresge Auditorium |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: Tickets
Boston Chamber Music Society Winter Concert. Marcus Thompson, Artistic Director.
The Russian Brahms:
A journey of 20 years, Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor is subtitled “Werther” after Goethe’s novel in which the sentimental hero kills himself for the unrequited love of his friend’s wife. Depending how you choose to interpret the relationship between Brahms and Clara Schumann, you may hear the musical sighs of pain, nervous Scherzo and deeply sentimental love song as a heartfelt goodbye. Taneyev’s String Quintet marries emotion and technique, utilizing a second viola to enhance the poignant theme and concluding triple fugue.
Brahms
Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60
Taneyev
String Quintet in C major, Op. 16
Featured Musicians
Ida Levin, violin
Yura Lee, violin
Marcus Thompson, viola
Dimitri Murrath, viola
Ronald Thomas, cello
Mihae Lee, piano
Admission: General: $35; WGBH members & senior citizens: $32; Non-MIT students: $10; MIT students with MIT student ID at the door: free; MIT faculty and staff: 20% off of general admission. For tickets and information, please visit: http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
Contact: Clarise Snyder, 4-243, 617-253-2906, csnyder@mit.edu
Change Ringing on Handbells
Dennis Wilson, Naomi Schurr, Elaine Hansen, Cally Perry
| Jan/06 | Mon | 07:30PM-10:00PM | 5-232 |
| Jan/13 | Mon | 07:30PM-10:00PM | 5-232 |
| Jan/20 | Mon | 07:30PM-10:00PM | 56-167 |
| Jan/27 | Mon | 07:30PM-10:00PM | 5-232 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants 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. It's music! It's a realtime multiplayer orientation game! It's the most fun you'll ever have counting to eight! Come give it a try. No previous musical experience necessary. All are welcome.
Sponsor(s): Guild of Bellringers
Contact: Dennis Wilson, 617 225-9646, DENNISW@MIT.EDU
Facing the Music: Recreating Performances from the Past
Gary Van Zante, Curator, MIT Museum, Teresa Neff, Lecturer in Music
Enrollment: Advance sign-in preferred
Sign-up by 01/02
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Attendance at all preferrred
Museums are mostly about visual experience and increasingly about interactive and immersive learning environments that engage visitors with objects and their history. Conceptualizing and designing exhibitions about music presents a special challenge.
Descriptions of a musical performance can be supplemented by documents, graphics, and visual material, but the “artifact” is not a physical object, but the experience of listening. The only records of most historical music performances are musical scores, reviews, and commentaries. When describing these performances, it can be difficult to engage the imagination without resorting to technical terminology, which can alienate a general audience.
Listening is at the heart of music and if the focus is music of the past, then how can we experience this in a museum or any other setting? Can a past performance be recreated? Can participants (other than the curator) manipulate elements of a performance to fit their idea of what a performance from the past might have been? Can the participant be part of that performance?
This IAP class will begin to develop a dynamic application for interactive historical performance. Utilizing Messiah performances by the Handel and Haydn Society, we will recreate and manipulate these performances in reverse chronological order ending with 1815. And we will investigate whether this same process can be used not only in museum settings, but to disseminate live concerts in a more enticing way today.
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum, Music and Theater Arts
Contact: Teresa Neff, 10-263, 617 452-3212, TNEFF@MIT.EDU
| Jan/09 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-160, Bring your own laptop |
| Jan/16 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-160, Bring your own laptop |
| Jan/23 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-160, Bring your own laptop |
| Jan/30 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-160, Bring your own laptop |
This IAP class will begin to develop a dynamic application for interactive historical performance. Utilizing Messiah performances by the Handel and Haydn Society, we will recreate and manipulate these performances in reverse chronological order ending with 1815. And we will investigate whether this same process can be used not only in museum settings, but to disseminate live concerts in a more enticing way today.
Gary Van Zante - Curator, MIT Museum, Teresa Neff - Lecturer in Music
Intro to Contra Dancing, with Live Folk Music
Kristi Beck, Ann B. Cowan
| Jan/07 | Tue | 08:00PM-10:30PM | Lobdell (W20 2nd fl), Live Irish music by J Cannon, C O'Shea, E Marshall | |
| Jan/21 | Tue | 08:00PM-10:30PM | (CANCELED) |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
Banjos + group theory + twirling your partner = FUN!
Contra dancing is a high-energy American folk dance, using easy walking steps, set to exciting, LIVE folk music from New England, Ireland, and Quebec. Dance with a partner and other couples, then change partners. A caller teaches the sequence of moves and prompts you during the dance, making it accessible to all. No experience necessary!
Free snacks will be provided. Come alone or bring friends! Website lists Tuesdays later in semester.
Sponsor(s): Folk Dance Club
Contact: MIT Folk Dance Club, fdc@mit.edu
Is This On? (Become A Member of WMBR Radio, 88.1FM)
Generoso Fierro
| Jan/19 | Sun | 06:00PM-07:30PM | 50-030, Starts Promptly at 6PM. Late arrivals.Not admitted |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
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. EVENT STARTS PROMPTLY AT 6PM. LATE ATTENDEES WILL NOT BE ADMITTED.OPEN ONLY TO WMBR Current MIT Students, Staff and Faculty.
Sponsor(s): WMBR Radio
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 26-147, 617 253-5038, generoso@mit.edu
Learn to Square Dance
Dennis Wilson
| Jan/28 | Tue | 08:00PM-10:15PM | Lobdell |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Come to the Tech Squares Beginner's Night and get a taste of Modern Western Square Dancing. At Tech Squares, the square and round dancing club at MIT, we dance fast, we dance smart, and we have lots of fun! No previous dance experience or knowledge necessary.
Sponsor(s): Tech Squares
Contact: Dennis Wilson, 434-214-0531, squares@mit.edu
Learn to Tune Ring on Handbells
Dennis Wilson
| Jan/09 | Thu | 07:30PM-09:30PM | W20 PDR #1(W20-301) |
| Jan/16 | Thu | 07:30PM-09:30PM | W20 PDR #1(W20-301) |
| Jan/23 | Thu | 07:30PM-09:30PM | W20 Twenty Chimneys |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Whether you're musically inept or a violin virtuoso, tune ringing in a handbell choir is a great new musical experience. Come learn different ringing techniques, how to read tune ringing music, and how to play together in a choir. We'll play everything from Disney songs to Pachelbel's Canon.
Sponsor(s): Guild of Bellringers
Contact: Dennis Wilson, 617 225-9646, DENNISW@MIT.EDU
Library Music! Open Mic in the Lewis Music Library
Peter Munstedt, Music Librarian
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Come help welcome the Lewis Music Library's new piano!
First come, first served. Everyone welcome. Help transform the Music Library into Library Music!
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Peter Munstedt, 14E-109, 617-253-5636, pmunsted@mit.edu
| Jan/10 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14E-109 |
| Jan/24 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14E-109 |
LIFT: music by Elena Ruehr
Elena Ruehr, Lecturer in Music and Theater Arts
| Feb/01 | Sat | 08:00PM-10:00PM | 14W-111 Killian Hall |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Internationally renowned soloist Irina Muresanu (of the Boston Trio), Jennifer Kloetzel of the Cypress Quartet), and Sara Bob (of New Gal) come together for a one time only performance of music by MIT composer Elena Ruehr. Featured will be two world premieres: Ruehr's Second Violin Sonata and Lift for solo cello. Also included will be Adrienne and Amy, commissioned in memory of Adrienne Fried Block and Amy Beach (violin and piano), The Klein Suite, written for the international Klein competition (for solo violin), Prelude and Variations (violin and cello), and the light-hearted The Scarlatti Effect for Piano Trio. The concert is a pre-release CD celebration.
Contact: Elean Ruehr, 4-246, 3-5623, ruehr@mit.edu
Mathematics Department Music Recital
Alexander Moll
| Jan/31 | Fri | 02:00PM-04:00PM | Killian Recital Hall, Rehearsal: Wed. Jan.29, 1-5pm |
Enrollment: Contact Alexander Moll (alexmoll@math.mit.edu)
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.
Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Alexander Moll, E18-401A, alexmoll@math.mit.edu
Middle Eastern Drumming - Hillel
Isaac Oderberg
| Jan/26 | Sun | 07:00PM-09:00PM | MIT Chapel |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Learn 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.
Contact: Ethan Sokol, 631-398-3220, ESOKOL@MIT.EDU
Rap, Rai, Rock, and Revolution: The Role of Music in the "Arab Spring"
Michael Toler, Archnet Digital Library Content Manager
| Jan/28 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 3-133 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The Arab Spring is the term given to the wave of demonstrations and protests that began in Tunisia in December 2010. To date this massive wave of popular protests has toppled authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. There have also been significant demonstrations in other countries, some of which have led to meaningful reforms, while others have led to civil war and strife. In such times of crisis, music can be particularly important as a tool of communication and education that builds community, boosts morale, and rallies people to the cause. One thing is clear, this is a revolutionary moment, and every revolution comes with a soundtrack.
The still evolving soundtrack of the “Arab Spring” is a fascinating blend of local and international influences ranging from classical Chaabi music from North Africa to the electronic sounds of Rap. Genres that have largely been robbed of their subversive power by the commercial music industry in the West, still pack a radical punch on the streets of the Middle East and North Africa. Performers have been beaten, jailed, and even killed as part of government efforts to suppress popular uprisings. This program will dive into the music of the Arab Spring and its antecedents through audio, video, texts, and multimedia resources.
Come discover the musicians that emerged as heroes of these protest movements and join a discussion of what the future might hold, given the rapid political and social changes in the region.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Michael Toler, 7-238, 617 253-2955, MTOLER@MIT.EDU
The Forest of Eoren
Matthew Pinson, Stage director
| Jan/31 | Fri | 08:30PM-09:30PM | 20 chimneys, W20-306 |
| Feb/01 | Sat | 08:00PM-09:00PM | 20 chimneys, W20-306 |
| Feb/02 | Sun | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 20 chimneys, W20-306 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
The MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players present the world premiere of The Forest of Eoren, a one act operetta written by MIT graduate student Matthew Pinson.
The dryads of Eoren have kept their forest closed to all invaders for centuries, so the arrival of a band of lumberjacks causes quite a stir. Will the dryads lose their home? Or their hearts?
Sponsor(s): Gilbert and Sullivan Players
Contact: Matthew Pinson, 617 388-4895, MPINSON@MIT.EDU
Trash Can Drumming
Rupak Chakraborty
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $20.00
for purchasing sticks and trash cans.
Instructors: Rupak Chakraborty, Nick Uhlenhuth
Tues Jan 7 & Thurs Jan 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 08:05-10:05pm, W20 Basement Conference Room (W20-027)
Enrollment limited to 15 participants: Must apply here.
Learn how to drum on trash cans from the MIT Live Music Connection! We are so excited for the 3rd rendition of TCD, where you will fast become a stick twirling, long-haired, face-melting, solo-crushing, jam-exploding, drumming phenomenon. Well, most likely. What we can guarantee is that, if you have a basic musical background (and even if you don't) you will get a solid primer on drumming technique, rhythm, jamming, and even collaborative writing - all on authentic steel 31 gallon trash cans. Genres will include inspirations from: jazz, rock, funk, hip hop, r&b, and music of the Senegalese persuasion. Have no fear, we've done this before!
Join us - we've got some awesome instructors that have signed on as well to help make you groove like you're ulna is on fire!
There will be a wait-list when more than 16 people sign up.
Sponsor(s): Live Music Connection
Contact: Rupak Chakraborty, RUPAK@MIT.EDU
| Jan/07 | Tue | 08:05PM-10:05PM | W20-027 |
| Jan/09 | Thu | 08:05PM-10:05PM | W20-027 |
| Jan/14 | Tue | 08:05PM-10:05PM | W20-027 |
| Jan/16 | Thu | 08:05PM-10:05PM | W20-027 |
| Jan/21 | Tue | 08:05PM-10:05PM | W20-027 |
| Jan/23 | Thu | 08:05PM-10:05PM | W20-027 |
| Jan/28 | Tue | 08:05PM-10:05PM | W20-027 |
| Jan/30 | Thu | 08:05PM-10:05PM | W20-027 |
Tues Jan 7 & Thurs Jan 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 08:05-10:05pm, W20 Basement Conference Room (W20-027).
Nick Uhlenhuth, Rupak Chakraborty
World Music Jam Session, in odd time signatures
Kristi Beck, Ariel Weinberg
| Jan/27 | Mon | 08:00PM-09:30PM | 66-144 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Learn to play in time signatures you've never heard of!
An open jam session featuring traditional folk dance music from a variety of countries, led by Skorosmrtnica, a local folk dance band with its roots at MIT.
Tunes will be from the Balkans (Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Greek, and others) and a variety of other genres (klezmer, Romanian, Armenian, Israeli, Breton (the Celtic part of France), Russian, German, Scottish, Swedish, Quebecois, English, and American old time).
Sheet music will be provided. Bring an instrument, or come to listen. No folk music experience necessary!
Sponsor(s): Folk Dance Club
Contact: Kristi Beck, kbeck@mit.edu
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