About this Event
Make some music with rap or sonic verse by September 1, 2023. It will be released in an MIT MPC collab album on Soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/mitmpc. We welcome all MIT staff, faculty, students, alumni and affiliates (including former community members) to submit their spoken word art to MITverses. Submissions could be spoken poetry, rap, EDM with words, as long as it combines music and verse. All submissions will be considered for the Music Productions Collaboratives Collab 2 album. The deadline to submit is Sept. 1st, and August 1st is for folks who want feedback before the submission deadline.
Signup to be sent the Zoom meeting url : http://to.mit.edu/signupverses
The purpose of the project is to promote and connect spoken music artists in the MIT Community. We're expecting Rap and Spoken Word artists to submit. Singing, vocal loops, spoken word, or conversation are all welcome. A dance song with a single vocal sample of “Stop!” would also be considered as fitting the scope of this project.
Timeline:
1. Sign up your intent to create a work for publication here: http://to.mit.edu/signupverses. (filling out this form will put. you on our low-frequency email list). As long as someone on your team is MIT Affiliated (Student, Alum, Staff, etc), we will add it to the collab. We will send email to the person who fills out this form, but can add other emails to the list.
2. Read what to submit. Take a look at the submission form http://to.mit.edu/submitverses to prepare your submission.
3. Come to an optional workshop session (july 27 @ 7pm) zoom details from filling out : http://to.mit.edu/signupverses.
4.Initial submissions were due August 1 (early August listening session)
5. August 15 6-7PM Listening session where we discuss feedback to finalize your submission
6. Submit your finished piece by September 1, 2023
7. Work will be published on Soundcloud soon after.
You can email us at mitverses@mit.edu
https://www.facebook.com/mitverses
Legal Disclaimer:
This is a not-for-profit project affiliated with an academic setting, we will not accept works with slurs or raw decontextualized violence. We request that you not sample copyrighted works, and if you do sample, to give credit to artists when you submit. We are only curating a group of talented people and hold no legal liability for ip infrignement and will not be providing any samples.
You'll own all rights to your music, and can release your work under your own channel too. You can submit work that has already been released.
fill out the form for the Zoom URL to be sent to you before the event
http://to.mit.edu/signupverses This form also signs you up for our low-frequency announcement email list.