IAP 2019 Activities by Category - Music

Max Gold

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Welcome to the second edition of A Brief History of Kanye. In this class, we will discuss the music, life and influence of Kanye West, one of today's most polarizing celebrities. We will journey chronologically through Kanye's life, analyzing his evolution as a person and as an artist; we will cover personal events that impacted Kanye’s music and how his albums and persona influenced hip hop and pop culture. 

Each class will be split into two sections: half will be dedicated to discussion of Kanye’s album(s) and half will be focused on important events in music, pop culture, and Kanye’s life that happened before the next album(s). Classes will typically be from 5:00 - 6:00 PM in room 4-270 on Tuesdays and Thursdays during IAP. The tentative schedule is below with the first class on Thursday 1/10...

1/10: Welcome to Kanye

1/15: The College Dropout

1/17: Late Registration / Graduation

1/22: 808’s and Heartbreak

1/24: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

1/29: Yeezus / The Life of Pablo

1/31: Kanye in 2018 (5:00 - 6:30)

Since this was an eventful year for Kanye (to say the least), the schedule has changed from last year. Now, the final class will focus on the good and bad from Kanye’s life in 2018. Anyone who graduated last year with their degree in ye-ology is more than welcome to come back on 1/31 to discuss this new material.

If you are interested, please sign up here to get email updates and so I can get a sense of potential class size https://goo.gl/forms/RXa1iqhD1FCk0Ubh2.

Contact: Maxwell Gold, MPGOLD@MIT.EDU

Srinivasan Raghuraman

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None

Carnatic Music is a form of Indian Classical Music associated with South India. Unique in several respects, most first-indulgers and curious internet sweepers are likely to feel some or all of the following:

• This form of music utilizes more modes/pitches than others.
• This form of music calls for a lot of vocal/instrumental acrobatics.
• This form of music uses many complex rhythmic patterns.
• This form of music is boring!/It is hard to sit through a 3-hour concert!
• This form of music is unintelligible.

As is the bane of many classical art forms, a little understanding of the how Carnatic Music works would go a long way in actually appreciating it and enjoying it.

In this course, we will study Carnatic Music as an art form. Discussions will include (in no particular order)

• The history of the art form and its performance today.
• Technical aspects of the art form including sruti, rAga, tAla, etc.
• The role and various forms of improvisation or manodharma sangIta.
• Compositional aspects.
• Performance aspects

and much more. The expectation is that this course equips one with the necessary knowledge and skill set to appreciate and enjoy a Carnatic Music performance today. No prior knowledge in Carnatic Music or any other form of music is expected, only a desire to understand what makes Carnatic Music work.

Jan 7, 9, 11, 10 AM - 1 PM.

Venue: 2-105.

If you are interested, please fill this form so that I may get a sense of the class size and also email updates: https://bit.ly/2BDRmjt

Sponsor(s): SANGAM
Contact: Srinivasan Raghuraman, SRIRAG@MIT.EDU

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Appreciating Carnatic Music

	Jan/07	Mon	10:00AM-01:00PM	2-105
	Jan/09	Wed	10:00AM-01:00PM	2-105
	Jan/11	Fri	10:00AM-01:00PM	2-105

Srinivasan Raghuraman, Srinivasan Raghuraman

Forrest Larson, Martin Marks

Jan/24

Thu

12:00PM-01:30PM

Lewis Music Library

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Before Pandora…. Before YouTube…. Before Spotify….. how did people experience recorded music? You’ve almost certainly heard music on CDs and perhaps also on vinyl LPs; but how did your grandparents or great-grandparents listen to music at home?

Martin Marks (Music and Theater Arts), Forrest Larson (Lewis Music Library), and possibly some surprise guests, invite you to take a ride in our Audio Way-Back Machine. We will experience some historical audio playback technology first-hand. Groove to the sound of our Edison wax cylinder player! Hear “His Master’s Voice” as it sounded on 78 rpm discs of bygone times! And more! This event will mark the MIT debut of the newest addition to our collection: the magical-sounding Regina music box. Join us in exploring the ways playback technology shaped the listening experience through the 20th century.

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Music and Theater Arts
Contact: Nina Davis-Millis, ninadm@mit.edu

Janet Baker, Yaron Shragai

	Jan/13	Sun	07:30PM-09:30PM	5-234
	Jan/27	Sun	07:30PM-09:30PM	5-234

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

Learn to play in time signatures you've never heard of! 5/8, 7/8, 22/8, and more!

Join the Balkan/international folk band Blajini and learn some traditional folk dance tunes.

Typical instruments in a Balkan band include accordion, bagpipes, drums, violin, flute, clarinet, and plucked strings. For this workshop, all instruments (and vocalists) are welcome, and sheet music in C will be available.

After learning some tunes, we'll have the opportunity to play for the folk dance session which follows.

Sponsored by Artists Beyond the Desk.

Contact: Folk Dance Club, fdc@mit.edu

Forrest Larson

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Want to make your own podcast, or record yourself playing the piano, but feel intimidated by all of the menus, dials and knobs on digital audio equipment, or by music software terminology? Ever wonder why recordings made with your cell phone don’t sound very good? The MIT Lewis Music Library is offering small group workshops for people with little or no experience using digital audio. You will learn the basics of using portable audio recorders, microphones and music software.

Sign up for one of three 90-minute sessions, each limited to four people: 1/23, 12pm, 1/28, 2pm, 1/31, 5pm.

For further information contact Forrest Larson twiggy@mit.edu

Register here for 1/23: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4844034

Register here for 1/28: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4844057

Register here for 1/31: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4844171

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Forrest Larson, twiggy@mit.edu

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Digital audio recording basics

	Jan/23	Wed	12:00PM-01:30PM	Lewis Music Library
	Jan/28	Mon	02:00PM-03:30PM	Lewis Music Library
	Jan/31	Thu	05:00PM-06:30PM	Lewis Music Library

Want to make your own podcast, or record yourself playing the piano, but feel intimidated by all of the menus, dials and knobs on digital audio equipment, or by music software terminology? Ever wonder why recordings made with your cell phone dont sound very good? The MIT Lewis Music Library is offering small group workshops for people with little or no experience using digital audio.

Forrest Larson

Philip Tan, Research Scientist

	Jan/10	Thu	03:00PM-05:00PM	14E-109, From vinyl to digital audio / Soul
	Jan/17	Thu	03:00PM-05:00PM	14E-109, Speakers and sound systems / Disco
	Jan/24	Thu	03:00PM-05:00PM	14E-109, Turntables and mixers / Hip-Hop
	Jan/31	Thu	03:00PM-05:00PM	14E-109, Computers and sampling / House & Techno

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

DJ: disk jockey
Selector, crate digger, musical host, turntablist

This series looks at the evolution of music, technologies, and practices of the modern discotheque. Join us every Thursday afternoon for classic grooves in the Lewis Music Library!

Each session will start with an informal talk on developments in DJ tools and craft over five decades of dance music.

Then join us for an hour of listening to a music genre that fueled those changes, inspired creativity, and reimagined the dance floor.

You are welcome to join us for any part of the seminar. Dancing is recommended but not required. Tracklists will be posted publicly at the end of the month.

About the speaker: Philip Tan is a research scientist in CMS/W who started the MIT Dance Mix Coalition in 1998. He organizes Local Beats, a quarterly all-ages inclusive community party, and brings a balearic blend of garage house, disco, electro, trance, and dub to parties around Cambridge and Somerville.

Jan 10: From vinyl to digital audio / Soul
Jan 17: Speakers and sound systems / Disco
Jan 24: Turntables and mixers / Hip-Hop
Jan 31: Computers and sampling / House & Techno

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Philip Tan, E15-320B, 617 324-9129, PHILIP@MIT.EDU

Austin Paul

Enrollment: Everyone is welcome; please email ahead to get directions to the towers
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 English 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? See http://nagcr.org/pamphlet.html for a slightly longer description, 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! The Guild of Bellringers is a secular organization. Everyone is welcome at any or all sessions. Email us to get directions to the towers and instructions on how to enter.

Sponsor(s): Guild of Bellringers
Contact: Austin, austinjpaul@gmail.com

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Ringing at Church of the Advent

	Jan/09	Wed	07:00PM-09:00PM	Church of the Advent
	Jan/16	Wed	07:00PM-09:00PM	Church of the Advent
	Jan/23	Wed	07:00PM-09:00PM	Church of the Advent
	Jan/30	Wed	07:00PM-09:00PM	Church of the Advent

Ringing practice at the Church of the Advent in Beacon Hill (30 Brimmer St., Boston).

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Ringing at Old North Church

	Jan/12	Sat	11:15AM-01:15PM	Old North Church
	Jan/19	Sat	11:15AM-01:15PM	Old North Church
	Jan/26	Sat	11:15AM-01:15PM	Old North Church
	Feb/02	Sat	11:15AM-01:15PM	Old North Church

Ringing practice at Old North Church in the North End (193 Salem Street, Boston).

Qingyang Xu, Liangyuan Na

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Enrollment priority given to those who can attend all sessions.
Prereq: None

Registration Link 

https://goo.gl/forms/h2HYkSKvlo59h5nq1

 

Overview

 

Gu-zheng, also known as Chinese Zither, is a traditional Chinese string instrument with over two thousand years of history. It is also replete with aesthetic vitality and can be adapted to play modern Western music. Exotic as it might seem, participants with no music background can perform elegant solo pieces (one traditional Chinese and another Western) after limited practice by the end of four sessions. We will also have Gu-zheng available for participants to practice individually outside the sessions.

 

Free and delicious Chinese snacks will be provided at each session!

 

Syllabus

 

Session 1 (1/11):

 

Introduction (Instrument & History)

Basic playing techniques (right hand: pluck, pick, hook; left hand: tremolo)

Group practice

Demonstrate simple Chinese piece (A Laugh at the Undaunted Sea)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmbxge3rxgs

 

Session 2 (1/18):

 

Introduction (Traditional Chinese Music)

Basic playing techniques (flowery slide)

Teach simple Chinese piece (A Laugh at the Undaunted Sea)

Group practice

 

Session 3 (1/25):

 

Introduction (Traditional Chinese Art and Culture)

Basic playing techniques (left hand: press, half-note, slide)

Teach simple Western piece (Jingle Bells)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogtI9REv_6k

Group practice

 

Session 4 (2/1):

 

Advanced playing techniques (shake)

Demonstration (Qin Sang Qu)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLm0itS3kbk

Group performance by participants

Sponsor(s): Chinese Students and Scholars Association
Contact: Qingyang Xu, E40-103, 650-804-3938, qxu94@mit.edu

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Introduction

Jan/11

Fri

02:00PM-03:30PM

Sidney-Pacific

Each session will be divided into two 45-minute sections, with 4 participants each. Each participant will attend one of the two sections on any given date. The section times are: 2:00-2:45PM and 2:45-3:30PM. Both sections on the same day will cover the same materials.

Meet at Sidney-Pacific seminar room

Qingyang Xu, Liangyuan Na

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Basic Playing Techniques I

Jan/18

Fri

02:00PM-03:30PM

Sidney-Pacific

Each session will be divided into two 45-minute sections, with 4 participants each. Each participant will attend one of the two sections on any given date. The section times are: 2:00-2:45PM and 2:45-3:30PM. Both sections on the same day will cover the same materials.

Meet at Sidney-Pacific seminar room.

Qingyang Xu, Liangyuan Na

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Basic Playing Techniques II

Jan/25

Fri

02:00PM-03:30PM

Sidney-Pacific

Each session will be divided into two 45-minute sections, with 4 participants each. Each participant will attend one of the two sections on any given date. The section times are: 2:00-2:45PM and 2:45-3:30PM. Both sections on the same day will cover the same materials.

Meet at Sidney-Pacific seminar room.

Qingyang Xu, Liangyuan Na

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Advanced Techniques and Performance

Feb/01

Fri

02:00PM-03:30PM

Sidney-Pacific

Each session will be divided into two 45-minute sections, with 4 participants each. Each participant will attend one of the two sections on any given date. The section times are: 2:00-2:45PM and 2:45-3:30PM. Both sections on the same day will cover the same materials.

Meet at Sidney-Pacific seminar room.

Qingyang Xu, Liangyuan Na

Janet Baker, Yaron Shragai

	Jan/13	Sun	08:00PM-09:30PM	5-234
	Jan/27	Sun	08:00PM-09:30PM	5-234

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

At the 8 pm teaching session, learn to dance in time signatures you've never heard of! Then practice your dancing to live music!

By the end of the first hour, you'll be dancing in rhythms such as 7/8, 5/4, 15/8, and more!  Our repertoire includes circle dances, and a few couple dances, from Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Hungary) and around the world (Quebec, Sweden, China, South Africa, Scotland, and the U.S.)

No partner needed and absolutely no experience necessary. Come by yourself or bring friends. Beginners are encouraged to arrive on time for introductory teaching in each session.

These dances continue throughout IAP and as a regular series on Sunday nights, so you can keep coming once you get hooked!

Sponsored by Artists Beyond the Desk.

Sponsor(s): Folk Dance Club
Contact: MIT Folk Dance Club, fdc@mit.edu

Jeremy Schwartz, Sponsored Research Technical Staff

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

In this Activity, participants will learn about modular synthesis techniques for composing electronic music, with a focus on creating evolving, generative soundscapes and music compositions using VCV Rack, an open-source virtual modular synthesizer.

VCV Rack is available for Windows, OSX and Linux:  https://vcvrack.com

It provides a full complement of traditional module types as well as many unique modules developed just for VCV Rack. Many modules are in fact software versions of some of the most popular Eurorack hardware modules.

To place electronic sound synthesis in context, the class will also introduce students to the physics of sound and the science of human auditory perception.

We will cover some of the basic concepts in electronic music synthesis such as waveforms, voltage control, subtractive and additive synthesis, generating melodic and rhythmic sequences etc. We will learn about modular synthesis in particular and utilize classic module types like voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, envelope generators, amplifiers and ring modulators. We will also utilize some synthesis techniques found in today’s modular systems such as granular synthesis, physical modeling and modal synthesis.

The latter half of the sessions will delve into the multiple options within VCV Rack for creating aleatoric and generative compositions, in particular using modules that utilize stochastic approaches to signal generation involving randomization and probability.

Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Jeremy Schwartz, 46-4115C, (617) 253-5717, jeremyes@mit.edu

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	Jan/22	Tue	02:00PM-03:30PM	46-3310, Bring your laptop
	Jan/24	Thu	02:00PM-03:30PM	46-3310, Bring your laptop
	Jan/29	Tue	02:00PM-03:30PM	46-3310, Bring your laptop
	Jan/31	Thu	02:00PM-03:30PM	46-3310, Bring your laptop

Please bring your laptop. We will cover the installation and setup of VCV Rack in the first session.

Jeremy Schwartz - Sponsored Research Technical Staff, James Traer - Research Scientist

Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, Affiliated Artist

	Jan/07	Mon	05:00PM-06:30PM	4-162
	Jan/09	Wed	05:00PM-06:30PM	4-162
	Jan/14	Mon	05:00PM-06:30PM	4-162
	Jan/16	Wed	05:00PM-06:30PM	4-162
	Jan/21	Mon	05:00PM-06:30PM	4-162
	Jan/23	Wed	05:00PM-06:30PM	4-162
	Jan/28	Mon	05:00PM-06:30PM	4-162
	Jan/30	Wed	05:00PM-06:30PM	4-162

Enrollment: maximum 15 students, by audition or permission of instructor
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Intermediate to advanced performance level, pref. w/ensemble

This course provides an opportunity for flutists to improve their instrumental skills in a traditional, large flute ensemble configuration, while learning and performing interesting music in a wide range of musical styles from the 16th -21st centuries.  Bass flute, alto flutes and piccolos will be made available for students to play. The ensemble may also divide into smaller groupings.

Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
Contact: Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, suellen@mit.edu

Veronica Boyce

Jan/22

Tue

08:00PM-10:30PM

W20, Lobdell

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Come to the Tech Squares Beginners' Night and get a taste of modern square dancing. At Tech Squares, the square and round dance club of MIT, we dance fast, we dance smart, and we have lots of fun! Figuring out the next dance motion, and how to make it flow smoothly with the previous one, creates a fun puzzle that has to be solved quickly. No previous dance experience or knowledge necessary; light snacks provided.

Sponsor(s): Tech Squares
Contact: Veronica Boyce, 650 933 0841, squares@mit.edu

Lindy Hop Society

	Jan/09	Wed	07:30PM-11:30PM	W20-202 (La Sala)
	Jan/16	Wed	07:30PM-11:30PM	Walker Memorial
	Jan/23	Wed	07:30PM-11:30PM	Walker Memorial
	Jan/30	Wed	07:30PM-11:30PM	W20-208 Lobdell

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

Learn to Lindy Hop!  Lindy Hop is very popular form of swing dance done to jazz music, with emphasis on musicality and improvisation.  This class is open to beginners, no previous dance experience required, and you do not need to come with a partner.  The lesson will run from 7:30-9:00 p.m.  After the lesson will be an open dance for practice.

Contact: Lindy Hop Society, swing@mit.edu

Nicholas Liotta, MIT Marching Band President, Andrew Licini, MIT Marching Band Secretary, Taylor Patskanick, MIT Color Guard Leader

	Jan/07	Mon	09:00PM-10:00PM	W20 PDRS 1&2
	Jan/14	Mon	09:00PM-10:00PM	W20 PDR 3
	Jan/21	Mon	09:00PM-10:00PM	W20-307
	Jan/28	Mon	09:00PM-10:00PM	W20-307

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

Interested in possibly joining the MIT Marching Band? Join us during our IAP rehearsals to discover if the marching band would be a good fit for you. Don't have an instrument? We can provide you with one. Don't know how to play an instrument? We can get you started.

New this year, we are also working on beginning an MIT Color Guard in association with the band. Come check this out as well!

Sponsor(s): MIT Marching Band
Contact: Nicholas Liotta, 401 523-1857, LIOTTANJ@MIT.EDU

Gweneth McKinley

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This annual concert gives those in the mathematics community, together with family and friends, a chance to perform for each other.

If you play or sing any kind of music, and would like to share it with the department, you are invited to perform in this year's IAP recital, a cozy afternoon of music at the end of winter break. Any ensemble or style of music is welcome.

To participate in the recital, please email Gwen McKinley (gweneth@mit.edu) by January 20th.

 Come to play or listen.

 

Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Gweneth McKinley, 2-155, gweneth@mit.edu

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Rehearsal

Jan/29

Tue

02:00PM-04:00PM

Killian Hall

Contact Gwen McKinley.

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Recital

Feb/01

Fri

02:00PM-04:00PM

Killian Hall

Session Description TBD

Joe Diaz

	Jan/07	Mon	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/08	Tue	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/10	Thu	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/14	Mon	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/15	Tue	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/17	Thu	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/22	Tue	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/23	Wed	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/24	Thu	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/28	Mon	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/29	Tue	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153
	Jan/31	Thu	06:30PM-08:00PM	4-153

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Not Metallurgy! This veteran crash-course returns this year and will have you head banging, air guitaring, and devil horn raising in no time! We'll watch some video clips, look at metal culture, and listen to some SCREAMING HEAVY METAL! This is guaranteed to be the most BRUTAL class ever offered at MIT!

Anyone is welcome to join, but seating is limited. Learn more about this series at metal.mit.edu.

Contact: Joe Diaz, JDIAZ@MIT.EDU

Peter Cariani, HST Affiliated - Lecturer & Course Director, HST.725

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

In these two lectures we will present a concise overview of the psychology of music.

Lecture 1

• Why we listen – the many diverse ways we use music in our lives (mood/arousal control, cognitive interest, memory, meditation, spirituality, movement/dance/exercise, motivation, identity, ritual, bonding)
• How we listen – music perception (musical pitch, consonance, scales & tunings, melodies & harmonies, grouping processes) and music cognition (tonal & rhythmic expectancies & hierarchies)
  
  Lecture 2
  
  
• How music is meaningful (expectancies & their violations, tension & relaxation, emotion, pleasure, beauty)
• Origins of music (comparative & evolutionary psychology of music, evolutionary-adaptations vs. structural couplings)
• Synthesis: music, brain, and temporal codes
  
  

Background

• The Music Instinct (2009), 2 hour PBS film, 
  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5pwSMDTD4M

• Howard Goodall’s How Music Works, 1. Melody, 2. Rhythm 3.  Harmony 4. Bass (2006), available on YouTube.

• Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2013), Tan, Pfordresher, and Harre, Psychology Press.
  
  
  

Sponsor(s): Health Sciences
Contact: Peter Cariani, cariani@bu.edu

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	Jan/17	Thu	07:00PM-09:00PM	E25-111, Lecture 1
	Jan/31	Thu	07:00PM-09:00PM	E25-111, Lecture 2

Peter Cariani - HST Affiliated - Lecturer & Course Director, HST.725

Bryn Reinstadler

	Jan/07	Mon	07:30PM-10:00PM	5-232,5-233
	Jan/14	Mon	07:30PM-10:00PM	5-232,5-233
	Jan/21	Mon	07:30PM-10:00PM	5-233,5-234
	Jan/28	Mon	07:30PM-10:00PM	5-232,5-233

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None

Join the MIT Guild of Bellringers for some handbell fun!

No prior experience necessary.

Whether you're a handbell expert, or have never even seen a bell but want to make music with others, come join us. Some ability to read music is helpful, but you by no means need to be an expert sight-reader.

Even if you can't read music, we also ring bells in the style of English Change Ringing. We can teach you everything and then some.

Come to any or all of the sessions; we'll adjust instruction/activities to suit attendees' interests and experience.

Sponsor(s): Guild of Bellringers
Contact: Bryn, bryn.marie.r@gmail.com

Amy Carleton

	Jan/31	Thu	11:30AM-02:00PM	4-370
	Feb/01	Fri	11:30AM-02:00PM	3-133

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/30
Attendance: Attending both sessions recommended, not required

After Prince’s untimely death in April 2016 at the age of 57, the significance of his contributions to the music world—and to the culture writ large—were gradually revealed to a broader swath of the population. Videos (of his guitar virtuosity while offering tribute to George Harrison or of his legendary 2007 Super Bowl performance) spread quickly online, prompting many to delve into his catalogue to find out more about this musical legend.

This two-day IAP workshop aims to celebrate the work of Prince—from his first studio album in 1978 where he played all of the instruments on the record—to his final solo Piano and a Microphone tour in 2016. This interactive workshop will cover his music, film, & other creative ventures. And, since this is MIT—we will also note Prince’s early adoption of Internet technology to connect with fans (and even crowdfund an album!). Led by CMS/W lecturer & lifelong Prince fan, Amy Carleton, this workshop will also feature guest speakers (incl. Susan Rogers, Prince’s former sound engineer on albums such as Purple Rain and 1999) who will speak about the artist’s creative process, and his legacy.

Whether you are a music lover looking for a substantive introduction to Prince’s music, or a seasoned fan looking for an opportunity to pay tribute to one of the most important artists of the last century, I hope you will attend! Materials (including playlists!) will be sent out a few days in advance. Sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/pLGScbx4kmXIIJWY2

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Amy Carleton, amymarie@mit.edu

Banti Gheneti, Grace Gardner

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Interested in learning about music genres like Death Grips and Shoegaze?

Come eat snacks and listen to WMBR DJs play music from their favorite genres.

Sponsor(s): WMBR Radio
Contact: Banti Gheneti, 50-030 (Walker Basement), BGHENETI@MIT.EDU

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Japanese Hip Hop

Jan/22

Tue

08:00PM-09:00PM

50-030

Ian Condry - Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies