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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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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative
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Spaces That Perform Themselves

Update: A trigger system has been implemented to enable users to play the cube in real time and explore interactive ways to compose space...
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Ritual I: The Thing Itself

Ritual I: The Thing Itself consists of a choreographed robotic body that is in constant flux. It performs a dance of repetitive patt...
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Orbit Weaver

Gravity is the anchor of all existences on earth, pulling the chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life.  Even ...
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Philadelphia Voices

Philadelphia Voices is the latest in the series of City Symphonies projects that Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have...
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Magic Robot Interaction

Can a magician and a robot collaborate on stage to create a believable, evocative performance?We are studying how th...
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City Symphonies: Massive Musical Collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...
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Nurturing the creation of music through the blockchain

Blockchain technology could help to revolutionize how artists get paid.
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Remote Theatrical Immersion: Extending "Sleep No More"

The MIT Media Lab collaborated with London-based theater group Punchdrunk to create an online platform connected to their New York City p...
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Fensadense

Fensadense is a new work for 10-piece ensemble composed by Tod Machover, commissioned for the Lucerne Festival in summer 2015. The projec...
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…but not simpler…

This collection of Tod Machover’s music focuses on chamber and orchestral music composed during the last decade, both with and without el...
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Composer's Remarks: ....but not simpler...

For the past 5 years or so, I’ve been working on some wild and unusual operas (the last one featured robots—or “Operabots”—onstage, a Mus...
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Miami “city symphony” announced

Composer Tod Machover’s ground-breaking “city symphony” projects, which involve entire urban communities in collaborating to create sonic...
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Disembodied Performance

Early in the opera "Death and the Powers," the main character, Simon Powers, is subsumed into a technological environment of his own crea...
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Remote Theatrical Immersion: Extending Sleep No More

Fall 2011—May 2012Article by Peter Torpey, Ben Bloomberg, Elena Jessop, and Akito van TroyerThe MIT Media Lab collaborated with London-ba...
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A Guinea Pig’s Night at the Theater

Even when it is not executed perfectly, theater can stir a range of feelings, from boundless elation to existential despair.
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Disembodied Performance

Proceedings of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Boston, 2009.
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Open Music Initiative

When a piece of work is created or performed, the digital rights to that piece are oftentimes complex and spread across many different or...
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Innovation in arts and culture #4: Punchdrunk – Sleep No More

Ever heard of 'remote and real world interconnected theatrical immersion'? Punchdrunk's Peter Higgin explains all
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Sleep No More: What It's Like Inside the World's Most Interactive Play

Come with me. I've got something to show you.
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Modular Light for Better Sleep

This project aims to build a modular lighting system where users can customize the design and lighting patterns.
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Hyperinstruments

The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic perfor...