Invite: Dissolve Music @ MIT, Oct. 2-3 (Th/Fr) - free and open to the public - hope to see you there!

[Ian Condry]

Dear friends and colleagues with Boston Tech Poetics,

You and your friends are invited to the Dissolve Music @ MIT events, 10/2 Thu and 10/3 Fri at MIT, Bldg W97.  

Organized by the MIT Spatial Sound Lab, this showcase of artist performances and talks will take advantage 

of an 8.1 surround sound system for a diverse range of music, visuals, and dance.  More details below.  

Hope to see you there!  Ian

Dissolve Music @ MIT

Building W97, black box theater

345 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA 02139

Free, open to the public, all ages

Dissolve Music @ MIT

Building W97, black box theater

345 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA 02139

Free, open to the public, all ages

Oct. 2 (Thu)

7:00pm - 9:00pm (doors 6:30pm):  MUSIC performances in order + reception to follow

William Smith

electroacoustic spatial composition

Leftroman (Ian Condry)

spatial beats and bass, new album premiere

dragonchild

4-LP vinyl octophonic composition

Switch Angel with LOFI.SCIFI

live coding music and generative video 

Oct. 3 (Fri)  

3:00-4:30pm lightning TALKS and discussion, free and open to the public

Featured speakers (roughly 10 min. talks + 10 min discussion for each) expected order:

Portrait XO

American musician based in Berlin will discuss her experience with AI and music production. 

Alejandro Cabrera

Founder, Audio Brewers, ambisonics software for music production and listening

Miyuki Tanaka

Curator and author from Japan who works on sound and disability justice

Kyle Keane

Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol (UK), frontiers of accessible technology

7:00-9:00pm (doors 6:30pm):  MUSIC performances in order + reception to follow

Manaswi Mishra

improvised music for the futures of AI instruments, based at MIT

Christian Frederickson, Dan Safer, Ishmail Houston-Jones

original music and freeform dance from MIT Theater w/ friend

Nelly Kate, Justin Looper, Access Lab and Library

improvised sound, live captions, transistors in translation, Lab co-organizers

Portrait XO

music and AI, sound and visuals, based in Berlin

DESCRIPTION:  

Dissolve Music @ MIT is a two-day spatial sound showcase and conference, welcoming local scholars and artists as well as others from Japan, Europe, Australia, and across the US.  Held in MIT’s black box theater in Music and Theater Arts’ building W97, the event aims at community building to connect students, faculty, musicians and technologists through performances, discussions, lighning talks, and receptions.  

This is a project of the MIT Spatial Sound Lab, a community studio since 2019 to explore the social, artistic and technological potential of creating music and sound art that comes from all directions.  Our goals aim to dissolve boundaries between sound art and music, between academic disciplines, and between audience and performers.  

The 2025 edition will be the fifth iteration of the event, featuring artists from MIT, Berlin, Tokyo, Athens, Melbourne, NYC and beyond.  Focal themes this year include accessibility, inclusiveness, AI and creativity, and the social possibilities of spatial sound for live performance. 

MORE INFO about the Lab and events:  spatialsoundlab.mit.edu 

RSVP, contact:  Ian Condry, con...@mit.edu 

This event made possible with generous support:  

Global Mediations Lab MIT, 

MITHIC Sound Lab Unworking Group, 

MIT Office of the Arts, 

Comparative Media Studies / Writing (dept),

Music and Theater Arts (dept)

MIT Morningside Academy for Design, 

and the numerous artists and volunteers affiliated with

the MIT Spatial Sound Lab.  

Special thanks to my co-organizers, Justin Looper and Nelly Kate too.  

We hope to see you there!  

Best, 

Ian 

Ian Condry, Professor, MIT

Writings, music, radio:

https://linktr.ee/iancondry

508-314-2567

MIT Spatial Sound Lab

https://sites.mit.edu/spatialsoundlab