For Prospective Students
Music technology is a broad field of study with many applications in industry, academia, and the arts. At MIT, our focus is technical research in music technology that always centers the humanistic and artistic aspects of making music. We aim to study, discover, and develop new computational approaches to music that include:
- music information retrieval;
- generative algorithms;
- machine learning and AI;
- interaction and performance systems;
- digital instrument design;
- acoustics;
- audio signal processing;
- and software development for creative expression and music applications.
Discover Music Technology at MIT
Music Technology at MIT is situated within Music at MIT, but is connected directly with the School of Engineering. Our core is the humanistic and artistic pursuit of music creation and scholarship, yet we thrive through the world-class technical excellence of MIT science and engineering.
The result is a rich multidisciplinary community of faculty and students that is both intimate and broad, connecting through the many layers of MIT.
While here you may: conduct research leading to a published paper, perform with a jazz combo, take a linguistics class, invent a new instrument, study entrepreneurship, or history, or design, and be inspired by our faculty, our invited speakers, and your fellow students.
Whether you just want to take one music technology class to satisfy your HASS-A requirement as an undergraduate, or you are considering one of the master’s degrees, you will feel at home in the MIT Music Technology program.
The artistic research and creative output of our faculty are represent world-class contributions to innovative and transformative approaches to music technology. Get in touch, browse bios, research projects, and more!
Music Technology subjects are open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Graduate students take the course at the same time as undergraduates and complete additional assignments to receive graduate-level credit.
Music Technology at MIT hosts events annually including our signature speaker series and colloquia, and our annual research showcase. Our events take place in Tull Concert Hall, Killian Hall, and other venues across MIT’s campus.
Music technology offers our curricular performance class, Laptop Ensemble (FaMLE). Music Tec students also enjoy participating in extracurricular music activities including many a cappella groups, the Music Theater Guild, the Video Game Orchestra, or MIT LIVE.
