Students in pools of light.

Special Event

2026 MIT Music Technology Research Showcase

A celebration of the MIT Music Technology community

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The first ever Music Technology Research Showcase presented our work as an interplay of technical presentation and live performance. The event played to a standing room-only house and featured diverse and captivating research presentations and music performances.

Date & Time
Location
Thomas Tull Concert Hall
Keynote Speaker
Anna Huang

 

Rachel Loh
jam_bot Visualizer

Claire Southard
Brain EEG to Music

Noble Harasha
Distributed Sensor Installation

Nithya Shikarpur
Moving Drone

Mariano Salcedo
Neural Cellular Automata Music Visualizer

Z Chen
Social Dance to Music

Valerie Chen, Stephen Brade, and Suwan Kim
Cello + Whale

Introductory remarks were made by SHASS Dean Agustín Rayo and Professor of the Practice of Music Eran Egozy. The evening’s program also included a keynote address by Associate Professor of Music Technology Anna Huang, one of the leading researchers in collaborative Human-AI music making.

Students in pools of light.

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Eran Egozy

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