Here, There and Everywhere: The Future of Music in Sound, Space and Place
Professors Tod Machover & Joe Paradiso
MAS.S68 (3-3-6), Fall Term 2016
MIT Media Lab
Wednesday 2:00-4:30 pm in E14-493
September 7 – Intro: The Future of Music in Sound, Space and Place
* Sept. 10 (required) – A.R.T. “Doing Time in Education”
(2:00 – 4:30 pm + food)
September 14 – Here, There (and Everywhere)
Tod, with San San Wong, Barr Foundation
Niall O’Hara, Galway 2020
* Sept. 17 (optional)– Ourobouros Trilogy; $15 student tix
Gilgamesh (11am), Naga (3pm), White Snake (7:30pm)
http://www.wbur.org/artery/2016/08/30/boston-opera?#_=_
September 21 – Stockhausen: From Piano to the Planets (with Simon Smith)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen
http://arts.mit.edu/artists/simon-smith/
* After class (optional) – Simon Smith at MIT Composers Forum, Lewis Music Library, 5pm
* Sept. 23 (required) – Smith Plays Stockhausen, Killian Hall, 8pm
September 28 – (Here), There and Everywhere
(Joe Paradiso & group, John Fernandez, MIT ESI)
October 5 – Arnold Schoenberg: Style. Idea! Impact?
(with Joseph Auner, Tufts)
October 12 – Discussion with Boston City Hall, plus discussion of class projects
* Oct. 14 (optional) – Machover concert at U. of Vermont, Burlington
* Oct. 15/16 (optional) – trip to Western Mass., MASS MoCA / RPI
http://massmoca.org/event/nick-cave-until/
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2016/summer/subbassprototon#tickets
October 19 – Visit by Mexico City project team (Hugo Solis and students), plus discussion of class projects.
October 25 – World premiere screening of Symphony in D documentary on Detroit City Symphony.
4-5PM in the Media Lab’s 6th floor Event Space.
October 26 – Class meeting from 4-5PM ONLY (in our normal classroom), because of Media Lab Members Week. We will discuss Symphony in D and class projects.
*October 27 or later (required) – 70s Chilean Art @ Harvard CCVA
http://ccva.fas.harvard.edu/embodied-absence
November 2 – The Boston Symphony Orchestra: Past, Present and Future; with Kim Noltemy, COO of the BSO
* Nov. 3, 4 or 5 (required) – BSO/Adès (1:30 pm)
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/79636
November 9 – The Future of Sound: What’s New and Why It’s Interesting, with Tod and Joe
November 16 – Class visit to the Gardner Museum for site exploration and discussion with museum director Peggy Fogelman, and contemporary curator Pieranna Cavalchini.
(November 23; move date for Thanksgiving?) – Projects, with partners as needed
* November 26-28 (required) – class trip to New York: Saariaho@Metropolitan Opera (attend in FINAL DRESS REHEARSAL of Saariaho opera at 10AM on November 28, plus backstage tour of Metropolitan Opera), Park Avenue Armory, etc.
November 30 – Projects, with partners as needed
December 7 – Jean-Baptiste Barrière
(with Kaija Saariaho discussion, etc.)
* December 9 (optional) – DeVos Symposium on Artists-Technology @ Media Lab
December 14 – Final Class/projects
Tod Machover (tod@media.mit.edu)
Joe Paradiso (joep@media.mit.edu)
TA’s – Nicole L’Huillier (nicolelh@media.mit.edu) and Thomas Sanchez Lengeling (thomassl@mit.edu)
Class Administrator – Priscilla Capistrano (priscill@mit.edu)
Class Alias – futuremusicssp@media.mit.edu