LocationVienna, Austria DescriptionThe Brain Opera is an interactive, musical journey into your mind, presented simultaneously in physical …
The Brain Opera is an attempt to bring expression and creativity to everyone, in public or at home, by combining an exceptionally large num…
Wilkinson, S.
The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…
Joseph A. Paradiso
A multisensory musical experience created by composer and innovator Tod Machover for the opening of the new MIT Museum.
'Augmenting Brains' is an all-day, in-person event dedicated to the discussion of the future of brain sensing.
Nataliya Kosmyna "AttentivU: A Wearable Pair of EEG and EOG Glasses for Real-Time Physiological Processing (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11310, Optical Architectures for Displays and Sensing in Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality (AR, VR, MR), 113101P (2 April 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2566398
The Brain Switch is a real-time, closed-loop brain-computer system allowing for real-time correspondence of simple user needs to a caretake…
The MIT Museum presents The Beautiful Brain, featuring the drawings of neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal, alongside an interactiv…
We are developing a multimodal interface for hand rehabilitation following stroke. EMG forearm sensors read attempted finger presses in dis…
My UROP in the Opera of the Future lab
Alivisatos, A., Andrews, A., Boyden, E. S., Chun, M., Church, G., Deisseroth, K., Donoghue, J., Fraser, S., Lippincott-Schwartz, J., Looger, L., Masmanidis, S., McEuen, P., Nurmikko, A., Park, H., Peterka, D., Reid, C., Roukes, M., Scherer, A., Schnitzer, M., Sejnowski, T., Shepard, K., Tsao, D., Turrigiano, G., Weiss, P., Xu, C., Yuste, R., Zhuang, X. (2013) Nanotools for Neuroscience and Brai...
The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.
The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS reboots for a new generation
LocationBoston Museum of Fine Arts Description
This brand-new production will give audiences the first opportunity in almost 30 years to experience a live performance of this seminal work
With the help of flashing lights and materials used in diapers, we could find out what thoughts are made of.
The Economist reports on the future of brain-computer interfaces, including work being done by researcher Nataliya Kosmyna.
In a study presented at CHI 2023, Media Lab alumni used Pringles & audio filters to explore the intersection of sound, flavor, & perception.
Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the th…
8K Brain Tour is a visualization system for terabyte-scale, three-dimensional (3D) microscopy images of brains. High resolution (8K o…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation.
Vujic, Angela, Shreyas Nisal, and Pattie Maes. "Joie: a Joy-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)." Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 2023.
Advances in neurotechnology have the potential to ameliorate a wide range of neurological disorders and diseases, and to augment brain func…
The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.
Boyden, E. S., Allen, B. D., Fritz, D. (2010) "Brain Coprocessors." Column, Technology Review. 9/23/2010.
AbstractDr. Ratey will address the connection between exercise and the brain's performance and the benefits of utilizing movement to pre
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At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades
Personal Opera is a radically innovative creative environment that enables anyone to create musical masterpieces sharing personal thoughts,…
Kosmyna N, Hauptmann E, Hmaidan Y. A Brain-Controlled Quadruped Robot: A Proof-of-Concept Demonstration. Sensors. 2024; 24(1):80. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24010080
Boyden is certainly a wellspring of innovative ideas—but more than this, he is a scientific pioneer.
Electrodes placed on the scalp could help patients with brain diseases.
Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing
Listen to the panel discussions and concerts happening in Symphony Hall as part of this festival!
New 3D imaging technique can reveal, much more quickly than other methods, how neurons connect throughout the brain.
LocationOPERA America, NYC Description
Celebrating Brain Awareness Week with a look at some of the Media Lab's brain research
New technologies for recording neural activity, controlling neural activity, or building brain circuits, may be capable someday of serving …
We are providing our tools to the community, and also using them within our lab, to analyze how specific brain mechanisms (molecular, cellu…
Boyden, E. S. (2007) “Engineering the Brain (‘Notebooks’ column),” Technology Review, March/April 2007 issue, p. 34-35.
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The Biomechatronics group recently pioneered a new type of amputation surgery, the AMI amputation, that allows patients to use a bionic pro…
Society is experiencing a growing challenge of mental health and wellbeing. This year, 32.3% of U.S. adults or over 100 million individuals…
There is a subtle air of complicity amongst the music-loving audience.
A conversation between Ed Boyden and Tyler Cowen on optogenetics and expansion microscopy to storytelling and the nature of consciousness.
Visionary composer Tod Machover is unleashing his latest marriage of technology and tradition: "Schoenberg in Hollywood."
The Boston Lyric Opera just announced the commission for Tod Machover’s next opera, called Schoenberg in Hollywood. The premiere will be in…
Skellig is an opera with music by Tod Machover and a libretto based on the best-selling novel for young people by David Almond. It premiere…
For more details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/For understanding the brain structure, it is neces…
Current communication technologies often suffer from being impersonal and non-contextual. Using on-body sensors for implicit or explicit se…
Boyden, E. S. (2010) Controlling the Brain with Light. SPIE Newsroom. 6/10/2010.
The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast time…
This grant supports new concepts and early-stage research for unique and innovative technologies for recording or modulation of the brain.
3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deeper …