MIT Spatial Sound Lab

04/25/2025

Looking forward to this.

Presented by Non-Event, the Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture, and HUBweek www.nonevent.org

10/14/2024

In the Spatial Sound Lab, we're deep into mixing a Spatial Mixtape for WaveForms. RSVP now for free tickets!

On October 25, experience art, science, and technology woven together in this one-night-only multimedia art occurrence, presented by the Museum and happening exclusively at the Midway Artist Studios! Featuring curation, works, and support by MASARY Studios, AVFX, Boston Cyberarts, ILLUMINUS, MIT Spatial Sound Lab, and Boston Lyric Opera. Register for free: https://bit.ly/3NGIeAl

09/12/2024

Our flagship event Dissolve Music is coming October 3-4, 2024 at MIT Theater building W97 in the black box theater. More info on our website: https://sites.mit.edu/spatialsoundlab

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! Free, all ages, open to public. RSVP links at our website above.

Performing artists include: Nelly Kate, Weilu Ge, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Rachel Devorah & Isabella Koen, Joshue Ott, Justin Looper, Kyle Keane, Wenhua Shi, Leftroman and more.

09/03/2024

The MIT Spatial Sound Lab now has a website!

Welcome to the MIT Spatial Sound Lab The MIT Spatial Sound Lab is a community studio for making immersive sound productions. Please sign up for our email list to learn about upcoming events, workshops, listening sessions or to get involved in one of our research tracks. Sign up FOR EMAIL UPDATES RSV...

07/25/2024

My new Leftroman album "Add / Drop" is now available on Bandcamp and streaming. Atmos versions on Apple, Tidal and Amazon. Thanks for your support! https://tr.ee/rKJZo8NYi6

04/19/2024

If you happen to be in Venice, Italy, I hope you'll come to my talk today, April 19, 2024 (Fri) at 4:30pm.

04/09/2024

My Leftroman "Black Hole Reverb" album release party is 4/10/24 Wed. 7pm at Union Tavern, Somerville. Lots of other even better music too at our Dissolve @ Night event in 4.1 quadraphonic surround. 21+, $10 suggested (free for students, pay what you like). Hope to see you there!

03/23/2024

Thank you, KMRU! For visiting MIT Spatial Sound Lab and giving a great performance at Boston city hall for non-event. He’s on tour now in the US, so don’t sleep.

10/23/2023

We're organizing an event at MIT 10/26-27. If you're free, come on by:

You are invited!

Dissolve Unconference @ MIT: spatial sound and futures of listening
Organized by the MIT Spatial Sound Lab
October 26-27, 2023 (Th/Fr)

Location: MIT, Room W20-429, Stratton Student Center, 84 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
Contact / register: [email protected]

Schedule

10/26 Thu - 4-5:30pm Artist Panel: Sound, Vision, Transformation
Nelly Kate (vocals, tape, sonic description)
Joshue Ott (SuperDraw, visuals into sound)
Norhan Boyami (music festivals & climate activism)
Serge Gräfe (Kraftwerk, hearing and vision engineer)

5:30-7pm reception and light dinner

7 - 9pm performances: Joshue Ott, Nourey, Supreetha + Mixtape

10/27 Fri

1-2pm Keynote lecture:

Accessibility and the Cosmos: Sonifying Supermassive Black Holes
Erin Kara and Kyle Keane

2:20-3:40 lighning talks and open discussion: Weilu Ge, Nourey and more

4-5:30 demos:
Ralf Zuleeg, d&b Soundscape, object-based mixing, time = space
KamranV, QUARK, the art of quadraphonic
Rico Corrubia, legendary sound engineer, electrostatic speakers & Involve Audio chip

5:30-7pm reception and light dinner

7 - 9pm performances:
Nelly Kate “Transistors in Translation” (vocal, tape, sonic descriptions + open captions)
special guests + Mixtape + open decks