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Opera of the Future
Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi MishraCode Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Pr…
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 …
Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…
“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…
I am currently developing a new approach in conducting sensory examinations via the Olfactory Response Baseline Identification Test (O.R.B.…
The world wide web was conceived 30 years ago. What will internet media look like after another 30 years? Should we expect it to be mostly …
Oniorb is an explorable musical object that was created with the idea of stress relief in mind. It is meant to act as a stress ball that al…
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 …
This project is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the San Diego Zoo to design and build interactive sonic enrichment systems fo…
Bauhaus artist Paul Klee considered a line to be one of the atomic elements of art and architecture. He famously described a line dra…
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…
Ritual I: The Thing Itself consists of a choreographed robotic body that is in constant flux. It performs a dance of repetitive patter…
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 internet changed how we create, distribute, and consume music and media. Modern digital tools for creating music and media …
The Telemetron is a musical instrument specially designed to be performed in microgravity environments. It is created to explore …
Songs released on music streaming services are static, never changing after their initial release. Evolving Media proposes a content p…
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…