Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates graduate students’ work

August 5, 2026 | danielb7@mit.edu

In this week’s newsletter, meet the graduate students working on the future of music computation and technology, the new heads of MIT’s Department of Economics and History and Literature Sections, student and faculty award winners, and more.

Caption:Hearts were used as a music visualizer during Carlos Mariano Salcedo’s ’25, SM ’26 presentation with Noble Harasha ’25, SM ’26 playing a modular synthesizer (left); PhD student Valerie K. Chen ’22, MEng ’23 played cello in "Whale Cello (there?)!”

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