CREATIVITAS IS ORGANIZED AND TAUGHT BY PROFESSORS, STUDENTS, AND AFFILIATES FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Professor of Music Technology (MIT)
Director of the Collaborative Music Lab

Ian Hattwick is an artist, researcher, and technology developer whose work focuses on the creation and use of digital systems for professional artistic performance.  He is particularly interested in collaborative performance and the creation of multimodal hardware systems to explore and facilitate social and embodied interaction.  He teaches music technology at MIT, directs FaMLE, the MIT Laptop Ensemble, and is CTO for Heath Interactive,  a music experience design startup.

MIT Faculty Page

ianhattwick.com

https://www.heathinteractive.com/

Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor (MIT)

Director of Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST)

Evan Ziporyn is a renowned composer and clarinetist, known for his cross-cultural works and performances. At MIT, he's the first Director of the Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST), founder of Gamelan Galak Tika, and curator of the MIT Sounding series.

His music has been played by top ensembles like Yo-yo Ma’s Silkroad, Brooklyn Rider, and Kronos Quartet, and featured at major venues including Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Ziporyn's opera "A House in Bali" was showcased at BAM Next Wave in 2010. He's also known for his interactive installation, Arachnodrone.

As a former member of Bang on a Can All-stars, Ziporyn won a Grammy with the Steve Reich Ensemble. His awards include a Massachusetts Arts Council Fellowship and the USArtists Walker Award.

His puppet opera "Shadow Bang," created with Balinese master Wayan Wija, has been a highlight. His recordings span various labels, and he has collaborated with artists like Brian Eno and Paul Simon. Recent projects include "Poppy 88," Bowie Symphonic: Blackstar, and soundtrack work for Ken Burns' Vietnam. His MIT Wind Ensemble performance of Don Byron’s Clarinet Concerto Received critical acclaim.

MIT Faculty Page

MIT Masters of Engineering ‘24An engineer and musician with a passion for expanding the existing modalities of musical interaction, performance, and exploration through electronic interfaces. Their background ranges from researching novel methods of blending software with hardware controllers to instrumental performance in orchestras and jazz combos. They hold a B.S. in Music and in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as an M.Eng. from MIT.

https://www.heathinteractive.com/

Philip Tan, a research scientist at the MIT Game Lab, studies playful audio and teaches courses in game design and production at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research translates the joy of expert challenge (e.g. in scientific, music, professional, and competitive fields) into playful forms that are accessible to everybody. For 6 years, he was the executive director for the US operations of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, a game research initiative. He also founded a DJ crew at MIT and continues to teach MIT courses in DJ history, technology, and technique.

Christian Frederickson is a violist, composer, and sound designer specializing in performances with live music. He was a founding member of Rachel's, an instrumental band from Louisville, KY who released six albums on Touch and Go Records between 1995 and 2003 and toured widely in the US and Europe. As a solo artist he has released seven albums since 2010. The 2016 re-issue of 'systems/layers', the final Rachel's album, garnered a "Best New Reissue" on Pitchfork and was called "a truly synthesized mesh of chamber music and electronics that sounded like little else…a godfather record to the nascent (post-classical) genre…" A core ensemble of viola, cello, piano, guitar/bass, drums, and percussion was surrounded by many other orchestral instruments, tape manipulation, cinematic sound design, found sounds and electronic elements in their studio albums. He has worked at a long list of theaters, notably the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Classic Stage Company, The Public Theater, Playwright's Horizons, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Atlantic Stage 2, The Old Globe, Woolly Mammoth, Hartford Stage, On The Boards, and especially Actor's Theatre of Louisville where he worked on over 20 productions and was a regular designer at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Frederickson was trained as a classical musician and holds a bachelor's degree in performance from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University and a master's degree from The Juilliard School. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2019.