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Xiao Xiao wins second place in the 2022 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

For the project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin. Congratulations!
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Gramophone reviews Tod Machover's Death and the Powers

Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.
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Harmonix keeps innovating, with lasting impact

The MIT spinout has been releasing iconic video games for more than 25 years.
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RadioWest 20th Anniversary: The Human Voice

Opera of the Future alum Rébecca Kleinberger discusses the human voice—how our voices affect our identities, how we hear ourselves, etc.
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Priscilla Capistrano and Helene Kelsey among the winners of the 2019 Infinite Mile Award from the School of Architecture and Planning

SA+P recognizes staff for exceptional contributions to their academic units, the school, and the Institute.
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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.
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The barriers to innovation

Opera of the Future alum Joe Chung writes that Boston is ideally suited to become a hub of the world’s longevity-innovation ecosystem.
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Tree Clocks: an interactive rhythm and language work

Tree Clocks was selected as the winning project at the Code Cypher hosted by MIT CAST.
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For multimedia artist Nicole L'Huillier, sound is a portal for change

Opera of the Future PhD candidate Nicole L'Huillier discusses her multimedia artwork with WBUR.
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Music | Machines: Opera, Collaboration, and (Sometimes) Serendipity

Music | Machines - Professor Tod Machover in conversation with the team from Death and the Powers.
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'Death and the Powers' Named to Chicago Top-10 List
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Death and the Powers Heads to Chicago
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#17 Death and the Powers
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#50 Death and the Powers Premiere

Tod Machover describes the premiere of his recent opera, Death and the Powers.

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#49 Death and the Powers

Check out a preview of Professor Tod Machover’s latest opera, Death and the Powers, which will premiere in Monaco in September and then t...
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Opera, Remixed

My UROP in the Opera of the Future lab
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Death and the Powers released on CD

The themes and concerns of Death and the Powers seem even more relevant and resonant than when the opera premiered a decade ago.
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Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
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MAS students receive 2021 OGE Fellowships

Congratulations to the recipients of this year's competitive fellowships administered by the MIT Office of Graduate Education (OGE).
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Media Lab Perspectives: Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise? with George Lewis

Thursday April 29, 2021 ...
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Tod Machover: GAMMIFIED

Gammified includes stereo electronics that play continuously throughout the piece, with the start of each of the five tracks marked in score
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Kronos releases five more free string quartet scores

Explore five new releases from the Kronos Quartet’s Fifty for the Future collection, including Tod Machover’s GAMMIFIED
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Design Justice, by Sasha Costanza-Chock, wins PROSE Subject Category Award

The book was chosen as the winner of the Engineering & Technology category of the 2021 Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards.
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Transforming quantum computing’s promise into practice

Electrical engineer William Oliver develops technology to enable reliable quantum computing at scale.
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Sasha Costanza-Chock named to Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame

The list is curated by the Women in AI Ethics™ Collective.
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Synthetic and Transfigured Phenomena (Synthetic Monster, Interspecies Worldmaking, and Creative Silicon Group)

We used a secret time machine under the MIT dome to go to the year 2050 and see what’s going on there!
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Meet the Labbers

Meet the Labbers, which ran from 2016–2018, was an ongoing audio series that took listeners inside the Media Lab.
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Sasha Costanza-Chock joins the Media Lab and Department of Urban Studies + Planning

The appointment is effective July 1.
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Tod Machover: IAMM keynote talk links

​ Some links to accompany a talk on “Possible Futures for Music and Medicine.”
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Nicole L’Huillier wins 2020 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

Congratulations to Opera of the Future's Nicole L'Huillier!
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Celebrating Teaching Assistants in MAS

During these uncertain times, we would like to thank the Teaching Assistants that helped make the transition to remote teaching.
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Meet the 2020 LEGO Papert Fellows

The new LEGO Papert Fellows will spend one week at LEGO headquarters in Denmark to share ideas and collaborate on projects.
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Experimenting with digital labels

The University of San Francisco Museum Blog highlights the Museums and Technology course taught by Opera of the Future alum Eyal Shahar
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Evergreen Blues receives Honorable Mention for Best Student Game @ 2020 Independent Games Festival

A previous collaboration between Su and Star, Seasons (季节), also received an Honorable Mention for Best Student Game at the 2019 IGF.
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Merce Cunningham lives on in motion capture experience at Jacob's Pillow

Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar collaborated on Loops, an exploration of Merce Cunningham's life and work.
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Peace workshop, concert connect experts, youth on Jeju Island

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island
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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?
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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
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Innovative composer hopes to unify the Koreas: Through his work, Tod Machover has shown the power of music, technology

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover talks to Korea JoongAng Daily about “Symphony for the Koreas.”
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Independent Games Festival 2019 award finalists announced with Return of the Obra Dinn leading the charge

Opera of the Future student David Su received an honorable mention for Best Student Game in the 2019 Independent Games Festival.
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Seasons receives Honorable Mention for Best Student Game @ 2019 Independent Games Festival

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) honors the most influential, innovative and acclaimed projects in independent game development.
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Reaching tech's limit, YouTube phenom Jacob Collier seeks a human touch

As Collier gets ready to release his sophomore album, "Djesse," he's adding a new element to his musical world: other people.
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Schoenberg in Hollywood in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on Tod Machover's newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood.
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‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ is a composer biography like no other

You probably won’t find anything resembling the rest of the opera in any Schoenberg biography anywhere.
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Musical worlds collide with BLO’s world premiere of “Schoenberg in Hollywood”

An enticing historical drama explores the conflict between maintaining artistic integrity and an artist’s longing to reach a wider audience.
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Karole Armitage talks ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ opera, her days as a punk ballerina, and the lack of female choreographers

Karole Armitage, the distinguished choreographer, is directing the world premiere of 'Schoenberg in Hollywood,' composed by Tod Machover.
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Life of the composer Arnold Schoenberg inspires Tod Machover’s latest opera ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’

Machover, known for his use of new technologies to expand music, was moved by Schoenberg’s commitment to maintain his artistic integrity.
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Style and Idea: Schoenberg and the Media Lab

As an intellect and creator, Schoenberg would have fit right into the Lab.
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From Robots to Schoenberg: MIT Opera of the Future composer Tod Machover evolves tradition with tech

Visionary composer Tod Machover is unleashing his latest marriage of technology and tradition: "Schoenberg in Hollywood."
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Schoenberg in Hollywood: New opera examines ideas of heritage, politics, and artistic integrity

On November 14, the Boston Lyric Opera will present the World Premiere of Schoenberg in Hollywood, a new opera by Tod Machover, the Murie...
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Making Music in Space

Nicole L'Huillier speaks at Sónar+D