Dissolve Music @ MIT is a two-day spatial sound showcase and conference, welcoming local scholars and artists as well as others from Japan, Europe, Australia, and across the US.  Held in MIT’s black box theater in Music and Theater Arts’ building W97, the event aims at community building to connect students, faculty, musicians and technologists through performances, discussions, lighning talks, and receptions.  

Visit spatialsoundlab.mit.edu/events for the full lineup. Free, all ages, open to the public. RESERVE TICKETS.

Our goal is to explore the social, artistic and technological opportunities of creating music that comes from all directions to dissolve boundaries between sound art and music, between academic disciplines, and between audience and performers.

The 2025 edition will be the fifth iteration of the event, featuring artists from MIT, Berlin, Tokyo, Melbourne, Athens, NYC and beyond.  Focal themes this year include disability justice, AI and creativity, and our enduring concerns with the social possibilities of spatial sound for live performance.

This event is supported by funding from the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) with other generous support from the Global Mediations Lab MIT, MITHIC Sound Lab Unworking Group, MIT Office of the Arts, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Music and Theater Arts, MIT Morningside Academy for Design, and the numerous artists and volunteers affiliated with the MIT Spatial Sound Lab.  

Special thanks to co-organizers Justin Looper and Nelly Kate.

For more info, contact Prof. Ian Condry (CMSW) condry@mit.edu