You are invited!  

Dissolve Music @ MIT is a spatial sound music festival and symposium happening October 3-4, 2024 (Thu/Fri).  It’s free, all ages, and open to the public.  It’s organized by us at the MIT Spatial Sound Lab, a community studio for immersive sound and spatial justice since 2019.  

Contact:  Ian Condry condry@mit.edu  Hope to see you there!  

Lineup and timetable below the poster.

Dissolve Music 2024 @ MIT:  Lineup and schedule (times are approximate)

MIT, Buildng W97 black box theater

345 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA 02139

Free, all ages, open to the public.  

10/3 Thu  7:00pm – 9:20pm — “Access, Vision, Sound:  live spatial sound, visuals, and captions”

6:30pm doors

7:00pm Spatial Mixtape:  SRCFLP, Aaron Bellamy, MASARY Studios

7:20 Welcome remarks (Ian Condry, Justin Looper, Nelly Kate)

7:30pm Nelly Kate (live) + talkback (5 min)

8:00pm Weilu Ge & Kelon Cen + talkback

8:20pm Joshue Ott (live) + talkback

8:50pm Leftroman (aka Ian Condry)

Accessibility:  Live captions and audio descriptions from the Access Lab and Library (Melbourne, Australia)

Live visuals: this.xor.that (Jessica Stringham)

10/4 Fri 2:00pm – 5pm  “Spatial Justice: lightning talks”

1:30pm doors

2:00pm Session 1:  Thomas F. DeFrantz, Paloma Duong, KamranV, Paul Roquet

3:20 – 3:40 Break

3:40pm Session 2:  Stefanie Egedy, Gearoid Dolan, Ralf Zuleeg + open discussion

Discussants:  Rico Corrubia, Serge Graefe and others

Moderator:  Ian Condry

10/4 Fri 7:00pm – 10pm “Sound, Body, Dance: live spatial sound and dance improvisation”

6:30pm doors 

7:00pm start

Spatial Mixtape:  KamranV presents Arthur King

Short film collaboration:  Wenhua Shi and Leftroman

7:20 Welcome remarks (Ian Condry, Nelly Kate & Justin Looper)

7:30pm Kyle Keane (live) + talk back

7:55pm Stefanie Egedy “B.A.S.: Bodies and Subwoofers” + talkback

8:15pm Justin Looper (live) + talkback

8:45pm Rachel Devorah and Isabella Koen (live) + talkback 

9:45pm mixtape mixer

Dance:  Rebecaa Sandlin, Dan Safer and Thomas F. DeFrantz (intermittently)

Live visuals: this.xor.that (Jessica Stringham)