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Vocal Vibrations at Le Laboratoire

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

Friday — Monday
March 28, 2014 —
September 29, 2014
Project

Vocal Vibrations

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

Article

SENSITIVE SCIENCE: vocal vibrations

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

Event

Vocal Vibrations

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

Friday — Sunday
October 31, 2014 —
March 22, 2015
Publication

Vocal Vibrations: A Multisensory Experience of the Voice

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

Article

MIT exhibits let the body hum in a vocal meditation

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

Person

Elena Jessop

Person

Rebecca Kleinberger

Former Postdoctoral Associate

Publication

Transfer Learning with Real-World Nonverbal Vocalizations from Minimally Speaking Individuals

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.

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Charles Holbrow

Former Research Assistant

Publication

The Body Parametric: Abstraction of Vocal and Physical Expression in Performance

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

Publication

Single fibre enables acoustic fabrics via nanometre-scale vibrations

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

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Personalized Modeling of Real-World Vocalizations from Nonverbal Individuals

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)

Publication

The Vocal Augmentation and Manipulation Prosthesis (VAMP): A Conducting-Based Gestural Controller for Vocal Performance

Jessop, E.

Article

Art installation uses sound as self-reflection

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

Project

Perceiving Emotional Affect in Vocalizations

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

Publication

Good Vibrations: Modal Dynamics for Graphics and Animation

A.P. Pentland, J. Williams

Event

Talk: Prof. Jeffrey Cohn on automated analysis and synthesis of facial and vocal expressions

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

Friday
January 27, 2012
Publication

Nonverbal Vocalizations as Speech: Characterizing Natural-Environment Audio from Nonverbal Individuals with Autism

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)

Project

Vocal Augmentation and Manipulation Prosthesis (VAMP)

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

Project

Analysis and Synthesis of Pulsed Vocalizations by Killer Whales

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

Publication

Social Signaling: Predicting the Outcome of Job Interviews from Vocal Tone and Prosody

Vikrant Soman, Anmol Madan

Project

VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction with the Singing Voice

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

Article

What it means to be counted: MIT art project aims to capture Ogden’s vocal diversity

“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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Barry L. Vercoe

Professor Emeritus

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Tod Machover

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

Post

Arnav Kapur wins “Use it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Congratulations, Arnav!

Person

Judith C. Brown

Former Visiting Scientist

Group

Opera of the Future

The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…

Post

Tod Machover: IAMM keynote talk links

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

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Advancing Wellbeing

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

Publication

AttentivU: An EEG-Based Closed-Loop Biofeedback System for Real-Time Monitoring and Improvement of Engagement for Personalized Learning

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.

Person

Max Addae

Former Research Assistant

Event

Mutations-Créations / Imprimer Le Monde

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

Tuesday — Wednesday
March 14, 2017 —
June 14, 2017
Project

Robot Expressiveness Affects Children's Learning

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

Article

Rébecca Kleinberger, From DJ Macaw to Video-Flocking: Leveraging audio technology for animal’s social and cognitive enrichment

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

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Leo Burd

Director, Lemann Creative Learning Program

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Leland Melvin

Former Director's Fellow

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Leopold Mebazaa

Former Research Assistant

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Brandon Leshchinskiy

Instructional Designer, Open Leadership Program

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Leila Carter

Administrative Assistant

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Cassandra Lee

Research Assistant

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Doyung Lee

Former Learning Activities Designer

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Lori Ledford

Former Administrative Assistant

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Robert Lewis

Research Assistant

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Levin Brinkmann

Visiting Student

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Lelia Hampton

Person

Yan Leng

Former Research Affiliate

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Michelle Lee

Vice President, Machine Learning Solutions Lab, Amazon Web Services; Advisory Council Member

Article

Sense and sensorbility: the book that lets you feel your protagonist's pain

"It's straight out of the pages of science fiction: a 'wearable' book, which uses temperature controls and lighting to mimic the experience…

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Daniel Visan Levine

Research Assistant

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Stephanie Lee

Person

Julie Legault

Former Research Assistant

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Nia Lewis

Former Executive Assistant

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Hyundo Lee

Former Research Assistant

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Lev Kanter

Former Type/Code

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Josh Levinger

Former Alumnus, Center for Civic Media

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Hugo Leca

Person

Leticia Izquierdo Garcia

Research Assistant

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Lennart Justen

Research Assistant

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Nic Lee

Former Research Assistant

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Jae-Chol Lee

Former Research Assistant

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Kimaya Lecamwasam

Research Assistant

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Lehua Kamalu

Person

Kleovoulos (Leo) Tsourides

Former Research Affiliate

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Sang-won Leigh

Former Research Affiliate

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Leah Buechley

Former Associate Professor