Permanent Courses in Music Technology currently offered at MIT Music & Theater Arts:
- 21M.080 / 21M.560 Introduction to Music Technology
- 21M.361 / 21M.561 Electronic Music Composition I
- 21M.362 / 21M.562 Electronic Music Composition II (Offered infrequently)
- 21M.369 / 21M.569 Studies in Music Technology: Musical Acoustics, Synthesis, and Audio Effects (Spring 2025)
- 21M.370 / 21M.570 Digital Instrument Design (Spring semester only)
- 21M.383 / 21M.583 Computational Music Theory and Analysis (Offered infrequently)
- 21M.385 / 21M.585 Interactive Music Systems (same as 6.4550)
- 21M.386 / 21M.586 Algorithms and Interactions for Human-AI Creative Partnerships (Next offered Fall 2026)
- 21M.387 / 21M.587 Fundamentals of Music Processing (same as 6.3020 – Fall semester only)
- 21M.470 / 21M.517 MIT Laptop Ensemble
Topics Classes
21M.369 / 569 (previously 21M.380) is a “topics” class where the topic varies each semester depending on the instructor. You may take this class more than once and earn credit each time. These classes have generally been popular and are sometimes oversubscribed. To get in you should pre-register and attend the first day of class. You may receive a questionnaire on the first day as part of the enrollment decision process.
Previous topics include:
- 21M.369 Studies in Music Technology: Creating Musical Experiences for the Web (Fall 2023)
- 21M.380 The Sound of the Web: creating and experiencing music on the internet (Fall 2022)
- 21M.380 Sound and Music Computing (Fall 2020)
- 21M.380 Composing for Solo Instrument and Live Electronics (Fall 2019)
- 21M.380 Laptop Orchestras and Network Music (Spring 2019)
- 21M.380 Performing with Computers (Fall 2018)
- 21M.380 The Mediated Voice (Spring 2018)
- 21M.380 Recording Techniques and Audio Production (Fall semesters 2013-2017)
- 21M.380 Sound Design (Spring semesters 2014-2017)