Content tagged "music"
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Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
Brazilian journalist Daniel Bacchieri and his StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance.
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Podcast, “Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer”
Erik Loyer’s award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.
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Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
Erik Loyer’s award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.
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Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture”
Nancy 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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Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
Nancy 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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Algorithmic Music: An Experience Composing with WolframTones
Andrew Whitacre on how to use algorithmic music generation in WolframTones as the inspiration for a full, human-sounding composition.
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B.I.C. at MIT
Haitian 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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Listening in Code: Process and Politics in Interactive Musical Works
Illuminating the distinct claims that sound and software hold on one another as creative domains, open mediational music invites listeners to rehearse a conscientious engagement with the sites and conditions of computationally mediated cultural encounter.
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Podcast, Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
“If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves.”
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Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
Drawing 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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Dissolve Inequality: Music Summit @ MIT
A 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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On the Politics of Punk Media and Peru
L. 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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A Conversation with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
In 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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Jonathan Sterne, “Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency”
McGill’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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Take Two Notes and Call Me in the Morning: The Science of Music Therapy
Human musicality and music’s direct effects on our health remain mysterious, but the complexities that have been unraveled thus far with gait training and melodic intonation hold a positive note of hope for the future.
