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What Listeners Feel vs. What They Say: Rethinking Emotional Impact in AI-Generated Music

Human-composed music elicits stronger emotions than AI-generated music, MIT Media Lab finds—even when listeners say they prefer AI
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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The Sound of Healing: An MIT Media Lab Instrument Helps Stroke Patients Recover Through Music

MIT Media Lab's Alexandra Rieger created the Chord, an AI-powered instrument that helps stroke patients recover through music and movement.
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AHA Seminar Series

Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
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The Music Camera

What if you could turn your favorite photograph into a beautiful piece of music?The Music Camera is an upcoming handheld device that genera…
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AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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Neural Notes

We are building an intelligent musical partner that plays duets with you and teaches music.  This research teaches us how to design mo…
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Mike Jiang among finalists at the 2026 MIT Arts Startup Incubator

PhD student Mike Jiang presents Neural Notes, an AI-powered jazz platform, at the MIT Arts Startup Incubator.
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Theme | Sleep + Dream Engineering

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
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Automatar: Intelligent AI Guitar

The Automatar is an intelligent AI-powered bass guitar born to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. While the …
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LIMITER: the Microtonal Arcade Machine

LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
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> After AGI: The Techno-Apocalypse Musical Exploring Human AI Co-Creative Practice

Set in 2034, After AGI follows Theos, a disillusioned AI engineer hiding in a bunker after the technology he helped build begins to fractur…
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Water production from air with piezoelectric ultrasound and functional polymers

In arid climates, the atmosphere is a source of water, but its extraction is energy-prohibitive.Many countries have arid climates in signi…
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Gaze to the Stars

What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
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OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology

Joseph Paradiso’s sensing research at MIT Media Lab bridges art, medicine, and ecology through wearable sensors and environmental monitoring
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Discovering and Steering Interpretable Concepts in Large Generative Music Models

The fidelity with which neural networks can now generate content such as music presents a scientific opportunity: these systems appear to h…
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ORGANOLOGY: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis

Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
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Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming

Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Opera of the Future paper is most read in Arts & Health Journal in 2025

A paper co-authored by Kimaya Lecamwasam explores how music and lullabies support infant and caregiver wellbeing worldwide.
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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BBC Radio 3's American Roadtrip features Opera of the Future

The broadcast included a discussion of music and AI as well as a live demo of the AI system from Professor Machover’s FLOW Symphony.
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FLOW SYMPHONY

Professor Tod Machover conducted the world premiere of FLOW Symphony at Seoul Arts Center. Scored for string orchestra and electronics, FLO…
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With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…
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Media Lab research featured in MIT News 2025 highlights

MIT Media Lab–connected research, people, and community moments shaped headlines and campus life throughout 2025.
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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The Jam_Bot wins 2025 MIDI Innovation Award

Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, and Jordan Rudess win 2025 MIDI Innovation Award for Jam_Bot, an AI-driven live performance system.
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Blending neuroscience, AI, and music to create mental health innovations

Media Lab PhD student Kimaya Lecamwasam researches how music can shape well-being.
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Return Paths: Tracing the Sound of Black, Asian, and Indigenous Technologies

Briët, Kayla. Return Paths: Tracing the Sound of Black, Asian, and Indigenous Technologies. Master’s Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, 2025.
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RAISE

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Performing Performance Spaces: Expressing Context in Live Music

Schon, Ana. 2025. “Performing Performance Spaces: Expressing Context in Live Music.” Master’s Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
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Jordan and the jam_bot: A Human-AI Co-Created Live Music Performance

On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
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Generic Pan Tilt: Open Source Motion Control Platform for Entertainment and Research

We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
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Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances

This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
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A model of virtuosity

Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
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Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances

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.
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Performing Performance Spaces: Expressing context in live music performances

Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …
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“FUTURE PHASES” showcases new frontiers in music technology and interactive performance

MIT concert, featuring electronic and computer-generated music, was a part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference.
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Music and Technology Intertwined

Graduate program in music technology and computation brings new dimension to interdisciplinary offerings
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At MIT, musicians make new tools for new tunes

Students at MIT Music Technology use design to push the frontier of digital instruments and software for human expression and empowerment.
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Pantheon

What if we could look at the entire history of humanity at once? Pantheon aims to create a data-driven view of history by collecting, …
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Research spotlight: Eran Egozy on blending music and technology

Media Lab alum talks about founding MIT’s new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program.
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MirrorFugue

MirrorFugue is an installation for a player piano that evokes the impression that the "reflection" of a disembodied pianist is playing the …
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TeleAbsence: Poetic encounters with the past

MIT researchers lay out design principles behind the TeleAbsence vision and how it could help people cope with loss
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Microgravity Research Flights with the Space Exploration Intiative

The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
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AttentivU - Headphones

AttentivU Headphones is one of the form-factors of AttentivU system. AttentivU Headphones feature the total of 9 dry or semi-dry …
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Bridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices

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
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Ask an Engineer: Will we ever run out of music? As long as someone is listening, the beat will go on.

Media Lab alum Eran Egozy tells MIT Engineering that the potential for new musical creations is, for all practical purposes, infinite.
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MIT launches new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program

The program will invite students to investigate new vistas at the intersection of music, computing, and technology.
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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…
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Making The Voice Hands-on

Max Addae’s innovative instrument creates new connections between sound and touch.