To be notified of the zoom link the day before the workshop, fill out the form http://bit.ly/signupversesJoin us for a unique musical journey with MITverses2! This IAP, come collaborate with the MIT community to create an incredible spoken verse album. Whether you're faculty, staff, student, alum, or an affiliate, we welcome you to be part of this creative process. Learn, create, and share your music with us! Together, we'll learn how to make a spoken verse album. Each week, we'll listen to examples of spoken word art and work on a prompt to create an element for your own track. We welcome participation from past and present staff, faculty, students, alumni and affiliates (anyone who has ever had an @mit.edu ID).Listen to the Collab2 album here: http://linktr.ee/mitversesKeep in touch with updates and deadlines: Sign up for the MITverses2 http://bit.ly/signupverses The track artist(s) must include 1 mit-affiliated person, and contain both music and verses. If you can't come to the workshops, you're still welcome to submit a track http://bit.ly/submitverses by Jan 30 Anywhere on Earth.MITverses2 will be published on Soundcloud and Spotify after the submission deadline.Workshop Schedule: 4 Thursdays 6-7:30pm, last Friday of January 6-7PMJan 2 Intro & Rhythms ; Jan 9 Writing Verses (with Alex Brinson @alexjbrinson) Jan 16 Mixing & Mastering (with Mr. Master ) Jan 23 Sharing Music Jan 31 Submissions & feedback sessionLegal 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.Sponsored by MPC, MIT's Music Production Collaborative

Gridspace presents a lecture series on the fundamentals of constructing sound with machines, with weekly guest speakers. Find out more at https://iap.gridspace.comABOUT US: Gridspace is a speech and language technology company that teaches machines to listen and speak. We process and automate billions of minutes of speech data per year.SCHEDULE: Lectures every Monday, Wednesday and alternate Thursday/Fridays (w/ special guests and performances). Streamed live and in-person in our office in LA.

Time: 6:00 PMLocation: Dallas, PA / Misericordia

Coached by percussionist and bandleader Eguie Castrillo, the MIT Afro-Latin Ensemble will perform music by El Gran Combo, Ray Barretto, Irakere, Batacumbele and many others.

Time: 10:30 AMLocation: Boston, MA / Boston University

Time: 3:00 PMLocation: Cambridge, MA