Discover the art and science of sound creation in Gridspace's MIT IAP 2025 lecture series: "Building Sound – Sound & Speech Synthesis." Topics include physical acoustics, various musical sound synthesis techniques, and a detailed modern deep dive into neural voice synthesis. Guest speakers include the inventor of FM synthesis, early pioneers of speech synthesis, the inventor of Guitar Hero, Youtuber Ange Yaghi, and the synth hardware designers from Noise Engineering. Join us for a historic ensemble of sound pioneers, inventors and machine learning renegades as we dive into the world of Building Sound. You're invited to attend in person or remotely, simply sign up at iap.gridspace.com. If you have any questions, please reach out to iap@gridspace.com. We really hope you can join us!