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

​Learning robust audio representations currently demands extensive datasets of real-world sound recordings. By applying artificial transfor…

LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…

Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …

Professor Tod Machover conducted the world premiere of FLOW Symphony at Seoul Arts Center. Scored for string orchestra and electronics, FLO…

Composed by Kimaya Lecamwasam and performed by Jessica Shand and Charlie Lovell-Jones on April 3, 2023. A preliminary d…

Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…

Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…

Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…

“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…

As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …

This project seeks to improve the use of satellite-based Earth Observation as an input to a Drought Decision Support System to inform the r…

Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…

The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…

Exploring the Atacama Desert and its intrinsic relationship to the Cosmos

Looking Through the Piano is a project created to visualize all of the past projects from the Opera of the Future group. The piano acts as …

By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi MishraCode Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Pr…

I am currently developing a new approach in conducting sensory examinations via the Olfactory Response Baseline Identification Test (O.R.B.…

This sonic rite consists of a listening session of the performance of the place, guided by the Para-Cantora, a sonic device that acts as a …

Philadelphia Voices is the latest in the series of City Symphonies projects that Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have c…

The Gamma Instrument is a small-format interactive device hovering between the realms of musical instrument and medical instrument. A capac…

Introducing the newest edition of the gamma musical/medical instruments - the Gamma MOON (Musical Omnisensory Orbital&n…

The Gamma SENSE (Sensory Engaging Nebulised Scent Experience) is a pioneering instrumental addition to the gamma instrument series. The dev…

​The CEE (Color Expanse Examination) system is an explorative approach to evaluating human color acuity. Color perception is shaped and alt…

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

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

Cognitarium 2.0  is a planetarium for the mind. Enter a world of 40 Hz sounds, multicolored lights and mind-entraining frequencies. Co…

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

This collection of Tod Machover’s music focuses on chamber and orchestral music composed during the last decade, both with and without elec…

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

Death and the Powers: Global Interactive Simulcast

This brief excerpt video shows a glimpse of some of Tod Machover’s innovative, unusual opera realized at—and with the collaboration of—the …

Expressive Performance for Body-Mind WellbeingThe Vocal Vibrations music is now available for exclusive download from Bowers & Wilkins.…

Music software that lets anyone compose music. The first music software program designed to teach students and adults how to compose music …

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

Media scores provide a means to orchestrate multiple modalities in the creation of expressive works of art and performance. New technologie…