LocationLe Laboratoire, Paris DescriptionVocal Vibrations, an original installation and design, invites the public to discover the relation…

Expressive Performance for Body-Mind WellbeingThe Vocal Vibrations music is now available for exclusive download from Bowers & Wilkins.…

« Vocal Vibrations » is an installation which invites the public to discover the relationship between sound vibrations stimulated by voice …

LocationLe Laboratoire Cambridge DescriptionVOCAL VIBRATIONS is Le Laboratoire Cambridge's exciting opening exhibition. Composer and invent…

Holbrow, C., Jessop, E., Kleinberger R. NIME’14, June 30 – July 03, 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Hum, and sound buzzes through your lips. Sing, and it vibrates through your head and body.Sing at “Vocal Vibrations,” the musical installat…

Nattinger, E. J. "The Body Parametric: Abstraction of Vocal and Physical Expression in Performance"

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Narain, J., Johnson, K., Quatieri, T., Picard, R., and Maes, P. “Transfer Learning with Real-World Vocalizations from Minimally Speaking Individuals”. Workshop in Interpretable ML in Healthcare at International Conference on Machine Learning. July 2021.

Jessop, E.

Luke Mo*, Manuel Cherep*, Nikhil Singh*, Quinn Langford, and Pattie Maes. Articulatory Synthesis of Speech and Diverse Vocal Sounds via Optimization. In Audio Imagination: NeurIPS 2024 Workshop AI-Driven Speech, Music, and Sound Generation.

Matton, Katie & Balaji, Purvaja & Ghasemzadeh, Hamzeh & Cooper, Jameson & Mehta, Daryush & Van Stan, Jarrad & Hillman, Robert & Picard, Rosalind & Guttag, John & Abulnaga, Mazdak. (2025). Classifying Phonotrauma Severity from Vocal Fold Images with Soft Ordinal Regression. 10.48550/arXiv.2511.09702.

Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media; Faculty Director, MIT Media Lab

Yan, W., Noel, G., Loke, G., Meiklejohn, E., Khiduyev, T., Marion, J., Rui, G., Lin, J., Cherston, J., Saharasbudhe, A., Wilbert, J., Wicaksono, I., Hoyt, R.W., Missakian, A., Zhu, L., Ma, C., Joannopoulos, J., and Fink, Y. Single fibre enables acoustic fabrics via nanometre-scale vibrations. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04476-9

Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, Ferguson, C., O’Brien, A., Talkar, T., Zhang, Y., Wofford, P., Quatieri, T., Picard, R.W.,Maes, P., "Personalized Modeling of Real-World Vocalizations from Nonverbal Individuals," Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Utrecht, Netherlands, October 2020. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)

Most art galleries have a “look, don’t touch” policy, maintaining the barrier between exhibit and observer, but not the new installation at…

A.P. Pentland, J. Williams

Hidalgo Julia, N.*, Lewis, R., Ferguson*, C., Goldberg, S., Lau, W., Swords, C., Valdivia, G., Wilson-Mendenhall, C., Tartar, R., Picard, R., Davidson, R. (2025) Identifying Vocal and Facial Biomarkers of Depression in Large-Scale Remote Recordings: A Multimodal Study Using Mixed-Effects Modeling. Proc. Interspeech 2025, 5263-5267, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2560

The ability to display and perceive emotion is a key component in intelligent behavior. Emotion helps to guide both human and animal behavi…

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-493 DescriptionComputational behavioral science is making significant efforts in analysis and understanding of n…

Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, O’Brien, A., Wofford, P., Maes, P., Picard, R.W. "Nonverbal Vocalizations as Speech: Characterizing Natural-Environment Audio from Nonverbal Individuals with Autism," Proceedings of the Workshop on Laughter and Other Nonverbal Vocalisations, Bielefeld, Germany, October 2020. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)

The Vocal Augmentation and Manipulation Prosthesis (VAMP) is a gesture-based, wearable controller for live-time vocal performance. This con…

Manuel Cherep*, and Nikhil Singh*. "Contrastive Learning from Synthetic Audio Doppelgängers." International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Despite many studies of marine mammal vocalizations, there is no generally accepted theory of sound production by whales or dolphins, and o…

Vikrant Soman, Anmol Madan

The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…

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“A Counting,” an art project from the Poetic Justice group, invites people to call in and count to 100 in their native language.

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The Opera of the Future Group develops new technologies for music, from Hyperinstruments that enhance performance expressivity for vir…

​ Some links to accompany a talk on “Possible Futures for Music and Medicine.”

In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, and…

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Pattie Maes. AttentivU: An EEG-Based Closed-Loop Biofeedback System for Real-Time Monitoring and Improvement of Engagement for Personalized Learning. Sensors 2019, 19, 5200.

New exhibition at Centre Pompidou features work from Tangible Media and Mediated Matter groups.

Alum Rébecca Kleinberger discusses her work at the intersection of new technology, animal-computer interaction, and the sonic environment.

Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the s…

MIT engineers design a system that uses a vibrating ceramic ring to produce clean drinking water from humid air in several minutes.

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