Event

New Music Marathon

LocationKresge Auditorium, MIT DescriptionNew Music Marathon:http://arts.mit.edu/fast/new-music-marathon/

Friday — Saturday
April 15, 2011 —
April 16, 2011
Event

Music and Mind LIVE #15 | Mind Games: New Tech for Music and Health

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover, alum Grace Leslie, and Dr. Adam Gazzaley join Renée Fleming for Music and Mind Live.

Publication

Dreaming a New Music

Machover, T.

Publication

Score Instruments: A New Paradigm of Musical Instruments to Guide Musical Wonderers

van Troyer, A. "Score Instruments: A New Paradigm of Musical Instruments to Guide Musical Wonderers"

Article

A musical instrument for astronauts and other news

BBC Click's Nick Kwek looks at some of the best technology stories of the week.

Project

Creating New Jazz Musical Instruments and New Jazz Idioms

The Launch Team: Christian McBride (winner of six Grammy Awards), David Gage, Mas Hino, and Topper Carew.

Publication

Musical Navigatrics: New Musical Interactions with Passive Magnetic Tags

Laurel Pardue, Joseph A Paradiso

Project

Media Ecosystem Analysis: Lessons from the Boston Marathon Bombings

In this project we examine the social media and traditional media's response to the Boston Marathon bombings from the moment of the explosi…

Event

Tod Machover Keynote and Concert: Music and New Media at the Crossroads

LocationUniversity of Missouri Description

Thursday — Friday
October 18, 2012 —
October 19, 2012
Project

NCCU: The Design and Fabrication of New Black Musical Instruments

NCCU: music is a strong and universally accepted aspect of black culture. It has given birth to the genres of blues, jazz, gospel, rap, hou…

Publication

Musical Trinkets: New Pieces to Play

Joseph A. Paradiso, Kai-yuh Hsiao, Ari Y. Benbasat

Publication

Autism, New Music Technologies and Cognition

Boulanger, A. "Autism, New Music Technologies and Cognition"

Publication

Electronic Music Interfaces: New Ways to Play

Joseph A. Paradiso, Eric Hu

Publication

Beyond Guitar Hero – Towards a New Musical Ecology

Machover, T.

Article

Towards New Musics: What the future holds for sound creativity

Tod Machover and Charles Holbrow discuss how they're building the tools and platforms for a culture of living music

Article

The Guy Behind Google's Chrome Music Lab: It's "Tinkering With Music in a New Way"

Publication

New Sensor and Music Systems for Large Interactive Surfaces

Joseph A. Paradiso, Kai-yuh Hsiao, Joshua Strickon, P. Rice,

Publication

ATLAS data sonification: a new interface for musical expression and public interaction

Publication

A New Continuous Multimodal Musical Controller Using Wireless Magnetic Tags

Kai-yuh Hsiao, Joseph A. Paradiso

Publication

A New Affect-Perceiving Interface and Its Application to Personalized Music Selection

Jennifer Healey, Rosalind W. Picard, F. Dabek

Article

The Sound of (New) Music: Tod Machover Debuts Multiple New Works at Prestigious Lucerne Festival

Article

NEW SOUNDS: Music for Strings (WNYC)

Publication

The Brain Opera Technology: New Instruments and Gestural Sensors for Musical Interaction and Performancevisit their online site

Joseph A. Paradiso

Article

Epi/20: Fluid Music | Mutating Music with MIT Media Lab’s Charles Holbrow

Alum Charles Holbrow talks about his work and shares his views on the past, present, and future of music and technology.

Article

AI is taking music lessons. They’re not going great.

Professor Tod Machover, head of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group, talks to the Washington Post about AI, music, & human creativity.

Publication

Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness

Fleming, Renée, et al. "Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness." Viking (Penguin Random House LLC). April 9, 2024. ISBN 9780593653197

Article

Music of the (data) spheres

A new MIT project taps into particle collisions to generate music and forge harmony between science and art.

Publication

Hypercompression: Stochastic Musical Processing

Holbrow, C. "HYPERCOMPRESSION: Stochastic Musical Processing"

Event

Music | MACHINES: 50 Years of Music and Technology at MIT

LocationE14-6th Floor DescriptionMusic | MACHINES will be a full day and evening experience at MIT’s new Media Lab Complex celebrating the …

Saturday
February 5, 2011
Publication

Shaping minds musically

Machover, T.

Publication

Music and Technology in Death and the Powers

Jessop, E., Torpey, P., Bloomberg, B. NIME’11, 30 May–1 June 2011, Oslo, Norway

Publication

Interacting with Music in a Social Setting.

Mazalek, A., Jehan, T.

Article

Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera

The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.

Publication

Towards Music Understanding without Separation: Segmenting Music with Correlogram Comodulation

Eric D. Scheirer

Publication

Music, Mind, and Mouth: Exploring the Interaction Between Music and Flavor Perception

Wang, Q. "Music, Mind, and Mouth: Exploring the Interaction Between Music and Flavor Perception"

Publication

MusicGrip: A Writing Instrument for Music Control

Nan-wei Gong., Mathew Laibowitz, Joseph A. Paradiso

Post

Dallas Symphony Orchestra launches new Jeanne R. Johnson Education Center

The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.

Group

Music, Mind and Machine

The Music, Mind and Machine group is working towards bridging the gap between the current generation of audio technologies and those that w…

Project

Exertion Music

Are electronic instruments that generate their own power better than those that don't? Can acoustic and electronic musical instruments be …

Article

An AI opera from 1987 reboots for a new generation

At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades

Post

Schoenberg in Hollywood in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on Tod Machover's newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood.

Event

Music + Invention Concert and Lecture

Professor Tod Machover curates and presents this event to explore the multi-faceted relationship between invention and music.

Friday
March 8, 2024
7:30pm ET
Publication

Kinéphone: Exploring the Musical Potential of an Actuated Pin-Based Shape Display

Xiao, X., Haddad, D. D., Sanchez, T., van Troyer, A., Kleinberger, R., Webb, P., ... & Ishii, H. (2016). Kinéphone: Exploring the Musical Potential of an Actuated Pin-Based Shape Display. In NIME (pp. 259-264).

Article

Hello, brave new world!

The advent of streaming has changed our relationship to music, but where is it taking us? What's the logical conclusion?

Person

Soroush Vosoughi

Former Postdoctoral Associate

Publication

Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface

Solis, H. "Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface"

Person

Tod Machover

Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media; Academic Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Publication

Moodtrack: Practical Methods for Assembling Emotion-driven Music

Vercoe, S. "Moodtrack: Practical Methods for Assembling Emotion-driven Music"

Post

Max Addae wins first place in the 2024 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

Addae received the award for VocalCords, which was developed as part of his master's thesis at the Media Lab.

Project

Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement

Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement (AMAI) is a music generation and playback system with the goal of steering the listener toward a stat…

Person

Colin "Topper" Carew

Former Visiting Scholar

Publication

Musical Applications of Electric Field Sensing

Joseph A. Paradiso, Neil Gershenfeld

Person

Dava Newman

Director; Apollo Professor of Astronautics

Publication

The Embroidered Musical Ball: A Squeezable Instrument for Expressive Performance.

Weinberg, G., Orth, M., Russo, P.

Event

Tod Machover Keynote @ Music Matters

LocationThe Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore Description

Thursday
May 24, 2012
Event

Talk: Zoe Keating, "Musical Tetris"

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14 6th Floor DescriptionIn her presentation entitled Musical Tetris: How technology enables the synthesis of compos…

Monday
March 19, 2012
Publication

Nervebox: The First General Platform for Electromechanical Musical Instruments

Cavatorta, A. "Nervebox: The First General Platform for Electromechanical Musical Instruments"

Publication

MoveMe: 3D Haptic Support for a Musical Instrument'

Katsuya Fujii, Sophia Russo, Pattie Maes, Jun Rekimoto