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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Prof. Craig Carter’s precision design for a student-led project now on the moon encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Media Lab alum Eran Egozy tells MIT Engineering that the potential for new musical creations is, for all practical purposes, infinite.
The program will invite students to investigate new vistas at the intersection of music, computing, and technology.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
Max Addae’s innovative instrument creates new connections between sound and touch.
This year's list includes work from Media Lab students, faculty members, and alumni.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
This research explores how acoustic environments can elicit awe and wonder emotions, and how such experiences can contribute to restoration…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Su, D., Picard, R., Liu, Y. "AMAI: Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement." Proceedings of the 44th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Daegu, Korea, August 2018.
Su, D. (2019). Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
This brief excerpt video shows a glimpse of some of Tod Machover’s innovative, unusual opera realized at—and with the collaboration of—the …
MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce soun…
The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon.
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
MIT EECS student Andi Qu re-created the classic video game—developed by Media Lab spinoff Harmonix—using an oscilloscope as the display.
PhD student Alexandra Rieger discusses her research combining music, engineering, neuroscience, and design.
Blanchard, Lancelot*, Perry Naseck*, Eran Egozy, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2024. “Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.69c11de7.
Composed by Kimaya Lecamwasam and performed by Jessica Shand and Charlie Lovell-Jones on April 3, 2023. A preliminary d…
Do you hear the sound of a breath, or an ocean wave? A heartbeat, or thunder? Journey through a universe of shifting sonic identities …
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
This project examines how the expression granted by new musical interfaces can be harnessed to create positive changes in health and wellbe…
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.
Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
The gondola, a timeless and iconic symbol of Venice and love, embarks on a new journey at the Venice Biennale Arte 2024 (https://www.labien…
Media Lab alum Rébecca Kleinberger, who’s now a professor at Northeastern University, talks about her work on sonic enrichment in zoos.
The MAD Fellowship is an opportunity for MIT grad students to propose a research-oriented or personal design project.
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
Read more about the premiere of “Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts” in the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts
At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades
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
The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
Addae received the award for VocalCords, which was developed as part of his master's thesis at the Media Lab.
Songs released on music streaming services are static, never changing after their initial release. Evolving Media proposes a content p…
The internet changed how we create, distribute, and consume music and media. Modern digital tools for creating music and media …
Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…
Alum Akito van Troyer, who's now an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, talks about finding the music in everyday objects.