Making machines that can listen
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
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Made by MIT: Guitar Hero/Rock Band
Rock stardom, five buttons at a time—part of a completely subjective list of Institute inventions that have left life easier, less stressful, and even a little more fun.
Visionary generosity, a model of impact
The late Neil Pappalardo’s care and love for MIT remain transformative.
Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program’s initial students
Associate Professor Anna Huang delivers the keynote address, “In Search of Human-AI Resonance,” to a capacity crowd.
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 2026 Advanced Degree Ceremony
Master’s and doctoral degrees across multiple SHASS graduate programs were conferred during the ceremony.
Seeing Sounds
Mariano Salcedo ’25, a master’s student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds.
Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments
Through an interdisciplinary collaboration between MIT and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, researchers are creating playable physical and synthesized replicas.
A Career at the Intersection of Music and Technology
John Piscitello ’91, SM ’93 hopes new Music Technology and Computation Program will spark game-changing innovation in the arts.
Music on the Brain
Graduate student Claire Southard ’25 explores new frontiers in music technology.
Reimagining sound and space
With the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, the Institute’s multidisciplinary approach to music deepens.
Eight MIT faculty and instructors awarded for their use of digital technology in exemplary teaching
The student-nominated and student-judged awards honor MIT faculty and instructor innovations in teaching with technology.
FUTURE PHASES showcases new frontiers in music technology and interactive performance
Groundbreaking MIT concert, featuring electronic and computer-generated music, was a part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference.
At MIT, Musicians Make New Tools for New Tunes
From the classroom to expanding research opportunities, students at MIT Music Technology use design to push the frontier of digital instruments and software for human expression and empowerment.
Music and Technology Intertwined
Graduate program in music technology and computation brings new dimension to interdisciplinary offerings
Mens et Manus et Music
A tour of the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building.
Digital Instruments for Musical Togetherness
Engineering graduate student Joseph Ntaimo ’23 builds instruments that “empower people to jam with each other”
MITHAS moves into its new home, MIT unveils multidisciplinary graduate program
As MITHAS celebrated the first concert in its newly inaugurated Thomas Tull Concert Hall, the MIT School of Engineering Dean, Anantha Chandrakasan, announced the launch of a groundbreaking new graduate program in music technology and computation.
Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building
Opening in February 2025, the building will “give MIT musicians the conservatory-level tools they deserve,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth.
A model of virtuosity
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the MIT Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” and the artist.
MIT launches new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program
The program will invite students to investigate new vistas at the intersection of music, computing, and technology.
Play it again, Spirio
A piano that captures the data of live performance offers the MIT community new possibilities for studying and experimenting with music
3 Questions: A new home for music at MIT
Keeril Makan describes how a new facility, now under construction, features rehearsal and performance spaces, a recording studio, classrooms, and music technology laboratories.
Machine learning and the arts: A creative continuum
CAST Visiting Artist Andreas Refsgaard engages the MIT community in the ethics and play of creative coding.
Hacking Commencement
Marshalling forces from across the Institute, MIT will deliver an online celebration worthy of the Class of 2020.
Sound and technology unlock innovation at MIT
Cross-disciplinary projects at MIT probe the technological and aesthetic limits of sound.
Music technology accelerates at MIT
An increasingly popular program is drawing students eager to build — and use — the next generation of tools for making music.
Arts benefactor makes lead gift for new MIT music building
Commitment signals transformative moment for the Institute’s music programming.
Will we ever run out of music?
As long as someone is listening, the beat will go on.
Sharing a passion for music and interactive technology
Harmonix co-founder Eran Egozy returns to MIT as professor of the practice in music technology.
Timeline of the Arts at MIT
From the founding of MIT to today, the arts have been a large part of MIT culture.