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Project Research

Tune Field

 Novel Antenna Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters prev...

in City Science
Guadalupe Babio Fernandez
#design #music
Project Research

With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a...

in City Science
Margaret Church · Gabriela Bila Advincula +6 more
#design #food #music +2 more
Project Research

BrainBeat: Breath-based music therapy

Can we sonfiy calming breathing and passively influence a state of calm?Deep breathing has been scientifically proven to affect the heart...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Grace Leslie +1 more
#human-machine interaction #music #affective computing
Project Research

The Telemetron Orchestra

When contemplating the future of life in space, we dream not only of rockets and off-world societies, but also of art, of leisure, and fr...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Thomas Sanchez Lengeling · Nicole L'Huillier +1 more
#design #music #interfaces +3 more
Project Research

Cognition-Driven Audio Summarization

As we move towards an increasingly IoT-enabled ecosystem, we find that it is easier than ever before to capture vast amounts of audio dat...

in Responsive Environments
Ishwarya Ananthabhotla · David Ramsay
#artificial intelligence #music #technology
Project Research

Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +30 more
#robotics #design #art +14 more
Project Research

SoundSignaling

Drawing inspiration from the notion of cognitive incongruence associated with Stroop's famous experiment, from musical principles, and fr...

in Responsive Environments
Ishwarya Ananthabhotla
#human-computer interaction #environment #music
Project Research

KnittedKeyboard

Knitting is an established textile manufacturing technique that has been pervasive in the garment and technical fabrics industry. In comp...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #human-computer interaction #consumer electronics +9 more
Project Research

Modeling Auditory Memory

When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at ...

in Responsive Environments
Ishwarya Ananthabhotla · David Ramsay
#artificial intelligence #augmented reality #cognition +4 more
Project Research

Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...

in Responsive Environments
Valentina Sumini · Clement Duhart +4 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +10 more
Project Research

Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +2 more
#human-computer interaction #architecture #health +8 more
Project Research

DoppelLab: Experiencing multimodal sensor data

Homes and offices are being filled with sensor networks to answer specific queries and solve pre-determined problems, but no comprehensiv...

Joseph A. Paradiso · Brian Mayton +1 more
#human-computer interaction #learning #music +3 more
Project Research

Sonic Murals

Giving voice and information to objects and spaces around us.Objects in our lives are usually either digital or not; mostly a wall is jus...

in Opera of the Future
Alexandra Rieger
#music #sensors
Project Research

Evergreen Blues

Evergreen Blues is a suite of interactive songs that together provide a collaborative musical narrative experience in the form of a multi...

in Opera of the Future
David Su
#human-computer interaction #gaming #music +1 more
Project Research

Grain Prism

The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touc...

in City Science
Don Derek Haddad · Gabriela Bila Advincula
#design #art #music +1 more
Project Research

Schoenberg in Hollywood: A new opera by Tod Machover

“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” ...

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

The Telemetron

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and durin...

in Opera of the Future · Space Exploration Initiative
Nicole L'Huillier · Sands Fish +1 more
#design #art #music +3 more
Project Research

Symphony for the Koreas

Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and ...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#music #politics #community +1 more
Project Research

Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement

Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement (AMAI) is a music generation and playback system with the goal of steering the listener toward a st...

in Opera of the Future · Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · David Su
#music #affective computing #technology
Project Research

Evolving Media on the Internet

Songs released on music streaming services are static, never changing after their initial release. Evolving Media proposes a content...

in Opera of the Future
Charles Holbrow
#artificial intelligence #music #technology
Project Research

Guitar Machine II

Exploring robotic sound generation mixed with human movements on the guitar. Guitar Machine II is a robotic guitar that responds to human...

in Fluid Interfaces
Sang-won Leigh
#robotics #human-computer interaction #music
Project Research

Seasons Change Together

Seasons Change Together is a collaborative song construction experience for multiple simultaneous participants. It represents a firs...

in Opera of the Future
David Su
#human-computer interaction #gaming #music +1 more
Project Research

Modulating peripheral and cortical arousal using a musical motor response task

We are conducting EEG studies to identify the musical features and musical interaction patterns that universally impact measures of arous...

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Grace Leslie
#human-machine interaction #music #affective computing
Project Research

An EEG and motion-capture based expressive music interface for affective neurofeedback

This project examines how the expression granted by new musical interfaces can be harnessed to create positive changes in health and well...

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Grace Leslie
#human-machine interaction #music #affective computing
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 collaborat...

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 el...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#robotics #music #performance
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 o...

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

Powers Live

Death and the Powers: Global Interactive Simulcast

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Benjamin Bloomberg +4 more
#music
Project Research

The SciFi Audio Workstation

The internet  changed  how we create, distribute, and consume music and media. Modern digital tools for creating music and medi...

in Opera of the Future
Charles Holbrow
#music
Project Research

VisualSoundtrack

We present VisualSoundtrack, a system designed as a tool for soundtrack composers to experiment with original musical content in differ...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Ishwarya Ananthabhotla
#human-machine interaction #music
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...

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

Quantizer: Sonification Platform for High-Energy Physics Data

Inspired by previous work in the field of data sonification, we built a data-driven composition platform that enables users to map collis...

Joseph A. Paradiso · Juliana Cherston
#data #music #networks +1 more
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 projec...

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

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Akito Oshiro van Troyer +4 more
#robotics #music
Project Research

ImmerSound

ImmerSound is a virtual reality experience wherein one can compose music by drawing in 3D.The result of the composition is a sculpted sou...

#music
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 crea...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Elena Jessop +1 more
#music #sensors #performance
Project Research

Music Visualization via Musical Information Retrieval

In a study of human perception of music in relation to different representations of video graphics, this project explores the automatic s...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Thomas Sanchez Lengeling
#data #music #perception
Project Research

Hyperinstruments

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

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

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