Shelemay Sound Lab

For several hours on the Saturday afternoon of April 25, Holden Chapel will turn into a sanctuary for environmental listening. Being one of the oldest buildings in Harvard Yard, since 1744 this space has served many disparate functions, hosting morning...

Although it cannot be heard by humans, infrasound permeates the atmosphere. Because the air absorbs it far less readily than ordinary sound, these extremely low frequencies can travel vast distances, originating hundreds or even thousands of miles away...

Pantanal Sounds is a project emerging from an artistic and research mission to the Brazilian Pantanal conducted in 2023, supported by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. The recital brings together works for...

presented by the Shelemay Sound Lab and FutureAudiophile.com Join us as we close out our series of HiFi celebrations with Yosvany Terry, composer, saxophonist, and Senior Lecturer of performance and we listen to several “Jazz Recordings You Should Hear”...

presented by the Shelemay Sound Lab and FutureAudiophile.com With special guest Mike Flannery, join us to explore the technical and musical challenges of cutting music to lacquer, a crucial step in the vinyl production process, with freshly cut lacquer...

presented by the Shelemay Sound Lab and FutureAudiophile.com Join panelists Jerry Del Colliano, Marc Finder, and Gus Sinkas as they share various career pathways in HiFi, engineering, and music technology with copious time for listening on the Sound Lab’s...

presented by the Shelemay Sound Lab and FutureAudiophile.com with introductions by co-host Jerry Del Colliano, media format pioneers Marc Finer and Gus Sinkas will lead is in an exploration of the technical and musical differences between vinyl, DSD, and...

a concert of fragments from works written between 1960 and 1985 Join us for a unique experience. Tickets available here. Performed by T.J. Borden, Madison Greenstone, Michael Matsuno, Charlotte Mundy, John Pax. Includes an open rehearsal during the week.

Chris Lock ‘24 returns with guests for an immersive multichannel electroacoustic concert sharing new works and sounds.

Join David Ibbett, Resident Composer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and Assistant Professor at WPI, to discover the art and science of sonification – the art of translating data into sound. David is the composer of Black Hole and...