Sound Invention
With the humanistic and artistic dimensions of music at our core, Music Technology at MIT is an interdisciplinary field of scientific inquiry that develops new computational approaches to music spanning generative algorithms, machine learning and AI, interaction and performance systems, digital instrument design, and audio signal processing.
Mark your calendars…
Prepare your application for the MIT Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program.
Submission window opens on October 15 and closes December 21 at 11:59pm EST.
Press + Announcements
Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program’s initial students
Associate Professor Anna Huang delivers the keynote address, “In Search of Human-AI Resonance,” to a capacity crowd.
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 2026 Advanced Degree Ceremony
Master’s and doctoral degrees across multiple SHASS graduate programs were conferred during the ceremony.
Seeing Sounds
Mariano Salcedo ’25, a master’s student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds.
Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments
Through an interdisciplinary collaboration between MIT and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, researchers are creating playable physical and synthesized replicas.
Faculty Spotlight
Paris Smaragdis
Professor of Music
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Paris Smaragdis is a Professor of Music Technology at MIT holding a shared appointment between MIT Music & Theater Arts Section and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). His research lies in the intersection of signal processing and machine learning, especially as it relates to sound and music.
Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor
Associate Professor of Music
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Anna Huang is the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor at MIT holding a shared appointment between MIT Music & Theater Arts Section and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Previously, she spent eight years with the Magenta team at Google Brain and Google DeepMind, spearheading efforts in generative modeling, reinforcement learning, and human-computer interaction to support human-AI partnerships in music-making.
Mark Rau
School of Engineering Gale Career Development Professor
Assistant Professor of Music
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Mark Rau is an Assistant Professor of Music Technology at MIT with a shared appointment between MIT Music & Theater Arts Section and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). He is interested in the fields of musical acoustics, vibration and acoustic measurement, audio signal processing, and also physical modeling synthesis.
Eran Egozy
Professor of the Practice of Music
Director, Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program
Eran Egozy is an entrepreneur, musician, technologist, and founding director of the MIT Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program (MTC).
