PULSE: American Music and Poetry from 1950 to 1970
This is a two-hour single session designed to discuss the parallel relationships between the American music and poetry from the 1950s to 70s.
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MIT Building 1, Room 246 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Michael Cuthbert: “Ambiguity, Process, and Information Content in Minimal Music”
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesOur ability to understand and be interested in the compositions at the extremes has kept pace.
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Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesCombining music documentary and social documentary, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of South Asian music in 1990's Britain. Featuring: Asian Dub Foundation, Talvin Singh, State of Bengal, Fun-Da-Mental, Anjali, DJ Ritu, Black Star Liner and many others.
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The Cultural Feedback of Noise
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesDavid Novak on the "cultural feedback" of noise music through its recorded forms, technologies of live performance, and creative practices of musicians and listeners.
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Jonathan Sterne, “Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesMcGill's Jonathan Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing, drawing on patent documents, interviews, operational protocols, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies.
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A Conversation with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn this wide-ranging conversation, the former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will discuss his collaboration on an opera with Tod Machover of the Media Lab.
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On the Politics of Punk Media and Peru
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesL. Shane Greene presents a theoretical overview of various situations – particularly their political, aesthetic, and media dimensions - that arose in the production of a book about the history of anarchism and punk rock during Peru’s war with the Maoist-inspired armed group known as the Shining Path.
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Dissolve Inequality: Music Summit @ MIT
MIT Building 4, Room 237 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA one-day event to explore the question: How can a new era of music offer insights into dynamics that reduce inequalities—gender, racial, economic, and more?
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Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDrawing on years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders, Seaver describes how people make sense of new kinds of jobs.
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B.I.C. at MIT
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHaitian poet, singer and song-writer Roosevelt Saillant, better known as “B.I.C.” for “Brain. Intelligence. Creativity,” is one of the best known and most creative and prolific artists in Haiti.
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Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesNancy Baym: "By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power."
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Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesErik Loyer's award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.
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Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesBrazilian journalist Daniel Bacchieri and his StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance.
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Ian Condry, “Sound, Learning and Democracy: The Curvature of Social Space-Time through Japanese Music, from Underground Techno to Pop Idols”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesProfessor Ian Condry explores contemporary Japanese music, with a comparison of diverse examples, such as female Japanese rappers, underground techno festivals, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku, and the pop idol group AKB48.