• Login
  • Register

Work for a Member company and need a Member Portal account? Register here with your company email address.

Article Research

Robot opera and how tech affects your love life
Article Research

Dallas Opera's Simulcast: Tod Machover's Death and the Powers

There is a subtle air of complicity amongst the music-loving audience.
Publication Research

FabricKeyboard: Multimodal Textile Sensate Media as an Expressive and Deformable Musical Interface

Wicaksono, I and Paradiso, J.A."FabricKeyboard: Multimodal Textile Sensate Media as an Expressive and Deformable Musical Interface
", New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) May 15-19, 2017. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.
Archived
Project Research

FabricKeyboard

Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a m…
Archived
Article Research

Kronos releases five more free string quartet scores

Explore five new releases from the Kronos Quartet’s Fifty for the Future collection, including Tod Machover’s GAMMIFIED
Article Research

Tod Machover: GAMMIFIED

Gammified includes stereo electronics that play continuously throughout the piece, with the start of each of the five tracks marked in score
Article Research

Transforming quantum computing’s promise into practice

Electrical engineer William Oliver develops technology to enable reliable quantum computing at scale.
Archived
Research
Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Archived
Project Research

The universal decay of collective memory and attention

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of info…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

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, …
Archived
Archived
Research
New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
Archived
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 freq…
Archived
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 data.…
Project Research

SoundSignaling

Drawing inspiration from the notion of cognitive incongruence associated with Stroop's famous experiment, from musical principles, and from…
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 f…
Archived
Project Research

LeakyPhones

LeakyPhones is a public/private headset that was designed to encourage face-to-face interactions, curiosity, and healthier s…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

PerForm

PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for interaction based on …
Archived
Post Research

Tales from Virtuality – Research under quarantine at the MIT Media Lab

Joe Paradiso shares his experience running the Responsive Environments group, teaching classes, among other things during the Covid-19 era.
Project Research

Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…
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 comprehensive …
Project Research

Soundscape Resynthesis

Sound and space are fundamentally intertwined, at both a physical and perceptual level. Sound radiates from vibrating materials, filling …
Archived
Post Research

Meet the 2020 LEGO Papert Fellows

The new LEGO Papert Fellows will spend one week at LEGO headquarters in Denmark to share ideas and collaborate on projects.
How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such a
Archived
Digital Life
Archived
Post Research

Jamming to Knitting, Music to Machines: Bringing interdisciplinary research to the manufacturing ecosystem

Here's my take on the future of textiles, as well as the connection between research and manufacturing.
Article Research

ETH Zurich at the WEF – RETHINKING Creativity

KnittedKeyboard at ETH Rethinking Creativity Pavilion
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…
Article Research

I performed at the super bowl. You might have missed me.

Director's fellow Christine Sun Kim expresses her pride and frustration at signing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl.
Article Research

Christine Sun Kim, the transgressive deaf artist, will sign the national anthem alongside Demi Lovato during the Super Bowl

Kim explains why she accepted the opportunity to perform during one of America’s most-watched events and what it means to the Deaf community
Article Research

Joe Paradiso in the podcast

He built one of the largest modular synthesizers in the world: Joe Paradiso is in the new episode of our podcast.
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 just …
Post Research

Evergreen Blues receives Honorable Mention for Best Student Game @ 2020 Independent Games Festival

A previous collaboration between Su and Star, Seasons (季节), also received an Honorable Mention for Best Student Game at the 2019 IGF.
Article Research

Chance the Rapper enlists Chicago students to code "I Love You So Much" video game

SuperMe features superheroes designed by Chicago Public School students
Thesis Research

Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative

Su, D. (2019). Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Publication Research

AMAI: Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement

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.
Article Research

How that giant homemade modular synth wound up at MIT

Joe Paradiso talks about making music, collaborating with students (and with the internet), and his massive modular synthesizer.
Article Research

Space pianos and upside-down shoes: innovations for life in space

Hairstyles, musical instruments and gardening all change in zero gravity, scientist Sands Fish says.
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?” Sc…
Archived
Research
CE 2.0

CE 2.0
Project Research

Loops

"Loops" combines the work of the Lab's Synthetic Characters group, Merce Cunningham, and digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar. A …
Archived
Article Research

Merce Cunningham lives on in motion capture experience at Jacob's Pillow

Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar collaborated on Loops, an exploration of Merce Cunningham's life and work.
Archived
Research
Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
Archived
Research
Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
Article Research

Innovative composer hopes to unify the Koreas: Through his work, Tod Machover has shown the power of music, technology

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover talks to Korea JoongAng Daily about “Symphony for the Koreas.”
Article Research

Peace workshop, concert connect experts, youth on Jeju Island

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island
Article Research

Hello, brave new world!

The advent of streaming has changed our relationship to music, but where is it taking us? What's the logical conclusion?
Article Research

Towards New Musics: What the future holds for sound creativity

Tod Machover and Charles Holbrow discuss how they're building the tools and platforms for a culture of living music
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 g…
Post Research

Guitar Machine

​We often imagine a future world filled with robots and artificial intelligence agents, where humans share their civilization with sentient…
Article Research

T-VOKS: The singing and speaking theremin

Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
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…
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…
Article Research

MIT’s LeakyPhones help you interact with strangers by sharing music at a glance

The Tangible Media group is researching human interaction with the gadgets and gizmos around us.
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 …
Communications Futures Program
Archived
Article Research

How we’ll forget John Lennon

César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.
Article Research

MIT’s zero-gravity musical instrument provides a soundtrack for space travel

The Telemetron was created in response to a call from the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative.
Article Research

A musical instrument for astronauts and other news

BBC Click's Nick Kwek looks at some of the best technology stories of the week.
Post Research

Schoenberg in Hollywood in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on Tod Machover's newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood.
Article Research

Reaching tech's limit, YouTube phenom Jacob Collier seeks a human touch

As Collier gets ready to release his sophomore album, "Djesse," he's adding a new element to his musical world: other people.
Future Storytelling
Archived
Consumer Electronics Laboratory
Archived
Post Research

Style and Idea: Schoenberg and the Media Lab

As an intellect and creator, Schoenberg would have fit right into the Lab.
Article Research

‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ is a composer biography like no other

You probably won’t find anything resembling the rest of the opera in any Schoenberg biography anywhere.
Article Research

Musical worlds collide with BLO’s world premiere of “Schoenberg in Hollywood”

An enticing historical drama explores the conflict between maintaining artistic integrity and an artist’s longing to reach a wider audience.
Article Research

Karole Armitage talks ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ opera, her days as a punk ballerina, and the lack of female choreographers

Karole Armitage, the distinguished choreographer, is directing the world premiere of 'Schoenberg in Hollywood,' composed by Tod Machover.
Article Research

Life of the composer Arnold Schoenberg inspires Tod Machover’s latest opera ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’

Machover, known for his use of new technologies to expand music, was moved by Schoenberg’s commitment to maintain his artistic integrity.