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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +58 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +30 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +30 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Power Props

“Power Props” is a sensor and actuator platform for Live Action Role Playing (LARP), immersive theater, theme park, and other transmedia ex…

Daniel Novy
#entertainment #gaming #human-machine interaction +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Don Derek Haddad
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +14 more
Project Research

Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

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…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sanjana Sharma
#robotics #design #architecture +13 more
Project Research

KnittedKeyboard II

Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Mike Hao Jiang +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +11 more
Post Research

Tapis Magique nominated for SXSW Innovation Awards 2022 in two categories

Developed in collaboration with dancer Loni Landon, Tapis Magique is a pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet.

Jan. 26, 2022
in Responsive Environments
#design #human-computer interaction #art +4 more
Article Research

Industry Talk | Tapis Magique: a choreomusical interactive carpet

Pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet generates 3D sensor data based on body gestures, drives an immersive sonic environment

via Knitting Industry · Nov. 8, 2021
in Responsive Environments
#design #human-computer interaction #consumer electronics +7 more
Research
Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative

#artificial intelligence #banking and finance #civic technology +20 more
Project Research

Death and the Powers: Redefining Opera

Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the th…

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Akito Oshiro van Troyer +4 more
#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +22 more
Publication Research

Disembodied Performance

Peter Alexander Torpey and Elena Naomi Jessop. 2009. Disembodied performance. CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3685–3690. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520555

Academic Paper
in Opera of the Future
#music #sensors #performance
Project Research

The EBIFA robot (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away)

EBIFA (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) is a crystalline robotic device that carried a tooth to outer space. EBIFA's form and fu…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Gershon Dublon · Xin Liu
#robotics #architecture #art +6 more
Post Research

Composer's Remarks: ....but not simpler...

By Tod MachoverFor the past five years or so, I’ve been working on some wild and unusual operas (the last one featured robots—or “Operabots…

Oct. 21, 2016
in Opera of the Future
#robotics #music #performance
Project Research

City Symphonies: Massive musical collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Akito Oshiro van Troyer +7 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +5 more
Project Research

…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 elec…

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#robotics #music #performance
Project Research

Orbit Weaver

Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is everywh…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Xin Liu
#design #agriculture #architecture +8 more
Project Research

Spaces that Perform Themselves

As we generally experience on earth, there is no space without sound and there is no sound without space. Building on the understanding of …

Nicole L'Huillier
#design #architecture #music +1 more
Project Research

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 patter…

in Opera of the Future
Nicole L'Huillier
#robotics #performance
Project Research

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 c…

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#art #crowdsourcing #music +1 more
Project Research

Magic Robot Interaction

Can a magician and a robot collaborate on stage to create a believable, evocative performance?We are studying how the …

#human-machine interaction #perception #social robotics +1 more
Archived
Article Research

Nurturing the creation of music through the blockchain

Blockchain technology could help to revolutionize how artists get paid.

via Bitcoin Magazine · April 20, 2017
in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
#music #blockchain #performance
Archived
Project Research

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 pro…

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Akito Oshiro van Troyer +7 more
#design #art #music +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Fensadense

Fensadense is a new work for 10-piece ensemble composed by Tod Machover, commissioned for the Lucerne Festival in summer 2015. The project …

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Benjamin Bloomberg +1 more
#design #art #music +1 more
Article Research

Miami “city symphony” announced

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

via Miami Herald · Dec. 7, 2016
in Opera of the Future
#music #performance
Project Research

Disembodied Performance

Early in the opera "Death and the Powers," the main character, Simon Powers, is subsumed into a technological environment of his own creati…

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Elena Jessop +1 more
#performance representation #mapping system #disembodied performance system +6 more
Post Research

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-base…

Oct. 21, 2016
in Opera of the Future
#music #performance
Article Research

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.

via The New York Times · May 22, 2012
in Opera of the Future
#design #music #performance
Article Research

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

via The Guardian · May 25, 2012
in Opera of the Future
#design #art #music +1 more
Article Research

Sleep No More: What It's Like Inside the World's Most Interactive Play

Come with me. I've got something to show you.

via Gizmodo · June 1, 2012
in Opera of the Future
#design #art #music +1 more
Project Research

Modular Light for Better Sleep

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

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Akane Sano
#design #art #music +1 more
Archived
Project Research

Hyperinstruments

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

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Rebecca Kleinberger +1 more
#music #sensors #performance

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