Music technology

<em>Death and the Powers</em> introduces new performance techniques and an animated set, including a musical chandelier with dozens of Teflon strings that can be played by the performers.

Disembodied performance

Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers, which features robots as performers, premieres this month. Is this the future of opera?

September 10, 2010

3 Questions: Evan Ziporyn on his new opera

June 22, 2009

Music at MIT hitting all the right notes

April 15, 2009

Media Lab student Amit Zoran shows the Chameleon Guitar, along with a variety of the interchangeable soundboards -- made of different woods and other materials -- that can be inserted to alter the guitar's acoustic characteristics.

'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech

Guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of electronic and acoustic.

February 3, 2009

Keeril Makan, assistant professor of music, has won the Rome Prize for 2008-2009.

MIT's Makan wins Rome Prize

April 11, 2008

Alum 'zaps' Museum of Science April 27

April 25, 2007

ICA presents Machover work

March 21, 2007

Ian Condry has a new book, 'Hip-Hop Japan.'

Japanese hip-hop: from 50 Cent to mirror balls and world peace

March 7, 2007

Mike Fabio and Steve Pliam's sonitronic chandelier will help 'wash' the Music Library in sound. Instrumentalists can tickle or pluck the resonant 'strings.'

Media Lab plans 'sonic bath' for Lewis Music Library

January 10, 2007

Keeril Makan, assistant professor of music, has seen the future of music, and it is linked to computing.

Makan's '2' marks the moment when music and computing became one

November 22, 2006

Interior of the newly renovated Rosalind Denny Lewis Music Library at MIT.

R.D. Lewis Music Library turns 10

November 1, 2006

Ph.D. candidate Diana Young puts her Hyperbow into action with a Hyperviolin in June. Young developed the Hyperbow at the MIT Media Lab to measure differences in bowing technique.

Grad student's Hyperbow makes music to measure

July 6, 2006

Dante Anzolini, the longtime music director of the MIT Symphony Orchestra, will conduct his farewell concert at Kresge Auditorium this evening at 8.

Orchestra leader to bid farewell at concert May 17

May 17, 2006

Harris gets grant for Handel work

March 14, 2006

N.E. Philharmonic to premiere Peter Child choral work March 4

March 1, 2006

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