What if the voice could be manipulated by hand, like so many other musical instruments? That was the question that drove Max Addae, MAS ‘23, to create VocalCords, an innovative music technology that he developed as his thesis project, supervised by Professor Tod Machover, director of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group. The project, titled VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction with the Singing Voice, allows users to explore a variety of modifications to their voice with a three-stringed instrument that’s played by hand.