South African Innovation in Music & Technology: Sumeet Sarkar & Jonathan Smithers

<section class="release-body container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1"> <p><span class="xn-location">LOS ANGELES</span>, <span class="xn-chron">Feb. 1, 2021</span> /PRNewswire/ -- With origins dating back to 1884, The MIT Symphony Orchestra's central mission is the cultural enhancement of education at <span class="xn-org">MIT</span> by promoting music performance at the highest level of artistic excellence among <span class="xn-org">MIT</span> students, by nurturing new works and young artists, by developing and sustaining the widest possible audience. Having collaborated with musicians from <span class="xn-org">New England Conservatory</span> and the <span class="xn-org">Berklee College of Music</span> having brought together 200 international musicians, the orchestra features neo-contemporary music by renowned guest artists at the Kresge Auditorium.</p> <div class="continue-reading text-center mt-xl visible-xs-block"> <span> <a class="smooth-scroll" href="#continue-jump">Continue Reading <br /> <i class="btr bt-angle-down mt-md"></i> </a> </span> </div> <div class="pull-right inline-gallery-container col-md-8 col-sm-7 col-xs-12"> <div class="gallery inline-gallery"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> <div class="col-sm-12 clearfix"> <figure> <div tabindex="0" class="image lightbox-item" data-src="https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1429701/ba6fa37687a00ff9e2e3cecb266eaf43000d7e9e__1.jpg?p=publish" data-asset-type="photo" data-asset-id="Life_After_Debt_Aug_17_Event.jpg" data-asset-label="General" data-sub-html="Sumeet 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class="image lightbox-item" data-src="https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1429702/ALMU03.jpg?p=publish" data-asset-type="photo" data-asset-id="Life_After_Debt_Aug_17_Event.jpg" data-asset-label="General" data-sub-html="Jonathan Smithers" data-tweet-text="Jonathan Smithers" data-facebook-share-text="Jonathan Smithers" data-linkedin-text="Jonathan Smithers" data-download-url="https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1429702/ALMU03.jpg?p=publish" data-pinterest-text="Jonathan Smithers" data-twitter-share-url="https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1429702/ALMU03.jpg?p=twitter" data-linkedin-share-url="https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1429702/ALMU03.jpg?p=linkedin" data-facebook-share-url="https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1429702/ALMU03.jpg?p=facebook" data-pinterest-share-url="https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1429702/ALMU03.jpg?p=facebook" onclick="omniture_corousal('Carousel Page','Photo Open','https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1429702/ALMU03.jpg?p=publish','General');"> <img title="Jonathan Smithers" 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violinist, composer and orchestral manager of the MIT Orchestra with multi-Grammy winning artist <span class="xn-person">Jacob Collier</span>. He is an active film composer based in <span class="xn-location">Los Angeles</span> with works released on Netflix, Apple TV and Amazon including the 2020 Emmy Nominated Documentary &quot;Home&quot; and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Documentary. His recent works aim at music therapy for mental health awareness through ambient and orchestral compositions.</p> </p> <p>Assisting <span class="xn-person">Sumeet Sarkar</span> and the Orchestra, Mr. Smithers will join as a co-writer, producer, mix engineer and studio guitarist include:</p> <p><b>Cymatic Chronicles Vol. 3 </b>– a full-length album dedicated to mental health awareness and the issues surrounding it. Its purpose is to provide support to those dealing with such issues, meaning that we would need to approach the music as such.</p><p><b>Cymatic Chronicles Vol. 4 </b>– this collection of soundtracks for placement in a film will be recorded by a live orchestra at Balboa Studios, <span class="xn-location">Los Angeles</span>.</p><p><b>Cymatic Chronicles Vol. 5 </b>– a collaboration with the MIT Media Centre for a performance centered around music in augmented reality. This will see the production of music in an interactive form and will be recorded by a live orchestra at Balboa Studios, <span class="xn-location">Los Angeles</span> and <span class="xn-location">Boston Massachusetts</span>.</p><p><b>MIT Orchestra featuring <span class="xn-person">Jacob Collier</span> </b>– the third and fourth productions of the MIT Orchestra feature multi-Grammy award-winning artist, <span class="xn-person">Jacob Collier</span>. Mr. Smithers will play the leading role of musician and session guitarist to play arrangements of Collier's music alongside Collier, as well as an extensive orchestra to be performed at the Kresge Auditorium.</p><p><span class="xn-person">Jonathan Smithers</span> is an internationally acclaimed musician with extensive achievements ranging from live performances to original compositions for digital projects with hundreds of thousands of views streamed on Twitch. Smithers released his debut album &quot;Honeybee&quot; in 2019. The album and title track &quot;Honeybee&quot; were hailed as &quot;proof of his uncompromising artistry.&quot; Mr. Smithers' leading projects involve his collaborations with the Hermitcraft server (part of the <i>Minecraft </i>phenomenon) a family of YouTube Creators with over 30 million subscribers combined.</p><p>As in-demand musician, he has collaborated with leading musicians, composers and creators, including Emmy award winning composer <span class="xn-person">Richard Hartley</span>; <span class="xn-person">Paul Petersen</span> and <span class="xn-person">Patric van Blerk</span>, founders of the label Cape Town Sound; renowned Multi-instrumentalist and Cape Town Jazz vocalist, arranger &amp; band leader, <span class="xn-person">Dave Ledbetter</span>; and performances with <span class="xn-person">Jesus Molina</span> and <span class="xn-person">Ronan Skillen</span>. His impressive achievements have been featured by publications in the U.S. and internationally in Texx &amp; the City, The Aesthete, Popshopfm, and the Hermitcraft Reddit.</p><p>Media Contact:<br class="dnr" /><span class="xn-person">Sumeet Sarkar</span> | Composer | Violinist | <br/><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br/> | (818) 279-5682</p><p>SOURCE <span class="xn-person">Sumeet Sarkar</span></p><img alt="" src="https://rt.prnewswire.com/rt.gif?NewsItemId=PH64469&amp;Transmission_Id=202102010849PR_NEWS_USPR_____PH64469&amp;DateId=20210201" style="border: 0.0px;width: 1.0px;height: 1.0px;" /> </div> </div> </section>