MEC.TECH Research

A year of real research, ending at MIT.

A year-long online program. Students research a question in music technology with Professor Hattwick, write a paper ready to submit to a journal, and spend a week at MIT at the end of the summer presenting it.

An instructor in glasses and a green cardigan points at a projected screen of code that sets up a twinkle sound and a drum sampler, as students watch from the front row.

Question

Start with a real question

Students learn to read the field critically: what has been tried, what holds up, and which questions are still open.

An instructor works at a laptop at the front of a classroom, below a projected grid of circles and two wall speakers, as a student in a plaid shirt follows along on a laptop.

Mentor

A year with Professor Hattwick

Working online through the year, each student turns a curiosity into a research plan with Professor Hattwick's guidance.

A student in headphones plays a white MIDI keyboard and turns the knobs of a synthesizer, with a red drum machine on the table and a laptop balanced on one knee.

Build

Build the evidence

Code, instruments and experiments turn an idea into results you can hear and measure.

Students work on laptops among rows of light-blue classroom chairs while others talk near a large screen at the front of the room.

Write

A paper ready to submit

Draft by draft, each student writes a paper with Professor Hattwick, ready for submission to a journal.

An instructor and five students stand on a sunny lawn in front of a domed, columned building framed by tall trees.

Campus

A week at MIT

At the end of the summer, students come to MIT for a week to share their work in person.

Empty rows of gray seats curve around the pale wooden floor of a concert hall, beside a staircase.

Present

Take the stage

The year ends where it was always heading: presenting your research at MIT, with a finished paper in hand.

Applications

Applications open in August 2027

Research applications aren't open yet. Questions in the meantime? Email us at info@mec.tech.