Location

Moogfest

Description

Paradoxically, technology can enhance musical virtuosity while also allowing anyone – regardless of training or experience – to participate in significant music-making. Composer and inventor Tod Machover describes the past, present and (potential) future of his Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab, showing Hyperinstruments for soloists and ensembles, responsive stage technologies that go beyond multimedia, large-scale collaborative systems that enable entire cities to create symphonies together, and musical tools and concepts that promote wellbeing, diagnose disease, and customize compositions to individual needs and desires.