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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.

via Hackster.io · Jan. 29, 2019
in Tangible Media
#music #technology #social change
Project Research

PerForm

“Music is not limited to the world of sound. There exists a music of the visual world.”—Oskar Fischinger, 1951.Almost 70 years ago, when...

in Conformable Decoders · Object-Based Media
Caroline Rozendo · Irmandy Wicaksono +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #music +2 more
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#robotics #design #social networks +41 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

#robotics #design #virtual reality +27 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

#robotics #design #architecture +19 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Synthetic Neurobiology

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

#artificial intelligence #bioengineering #cognition +16 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +26 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Opera of the Future

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

#design #art #crowdsourcing +6 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +32 more
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#design #human-computer interaction #art +15 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

#robotics #design #virtual reality +31 more
Accepting Applicants
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 o...

Nicole L'Huillier
#design #architecture #music +1 more
Communications Futures Program
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Archived
Research
Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

#robotics #design #art +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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.

via Nautilus · Jan. 10, 2019
in Collective Learning
#art #communications #entertainment +4 more
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.

via Digital Trends · July 9, 2018
in Space Exploration Initiative
#music #space #zero gravity
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.

via BBC News · July 13, 2018
in Space Exploration Initiative
#music #space #zero gravity
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 in...

in Collective Learning
Cristian Esteban Candia Vallejos · Cesar A. Hidalgo +1 more
#art #communications #entertainment +5 more
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#design #architecture #art +15 more
Accepting Applicants
Post Research

Schoenberg in Hollywood in the news

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

Nov. 21, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#art #music #technology
Research
Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +30 more
Accepting Applicants
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.

via WBUR · Dec. 5, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music #technology
Research
Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing

#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +25 more
Research
CE 2.0

CE 2.0

#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Future Storytelling
#robotics #architecture #art +21 more
Archived
Consumer Electronics Laboratory
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Archived
Post Research

Style and Idea: Schoenberg and the Media Lab

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

Nov. 16, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music
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.

via The Boston Globe · Nov. 15, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music
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.

via Boston Classical Review · Nov. 15, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music
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.

via Exhale Lifestyle · Nov. 12, 2018
in Opera of the Future · Director's Fellows Program
#art #music
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.

via Cambridge Chronicle · Nov. 10, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music #technology
Article Research

From Robots to Schoenberg: MIT Opera of the Future composer Tod Machover evolves tradition with tech

Visionary composer Tod Machover is unleashing his latest marriage of technology and tradition: "Schoenberg in Hollywood."

via WBUR · Nov. 14, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music #technology
Project Research

Schoenberg in Hollywood

A new opera inspired by the life of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, exploring his life in Los Angeles after fleeing Hitler's Europe....

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#music #politics
Post Research

Schoenberg in Hollywood: New opera examines ideas of heritage, politics, and artistic integrity

On November 14, the Boston Lyric Opera will present the World Premiere of Schoenberg in Hollywood, a new opera by Tod Machover, the Murie...

Nov. 13, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music
Project Research

Powers Live

Death and the Powers: Global Interactive Simulcast

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Benjamin Bloomberg +4 more
#music
Project Research

The SciFi Audio Workstation

The internet  changed  how we create, distribute, and consume music and media. Modern digital tools for creating music and medi...

in Opera of the Future
Charles Holbrow
#music
Project Research

VisualSoundtrack

We present VisualSoundtrack, a system designed as a tool for soundtrack composers to experiment with original musical content in differ...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Ishwarya Ananthabhotla
#human-machine interaction #music
Project Research

Philadelphia Voices

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

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#art #crowdsourcing #music +1 more
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Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
#robotics #architecture #art +23 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Quantizer: Sonification Platform for High-Energy Physics Data

Inspired by previous work in the field of data sonification, we built a data-driven composition platform that enables users to map collis...

Joseph A. Paradiso · Juliana Cherston
#data #music #networks +1 more
Publication Research

Sonification platform for interaction with real-time particle collision data from the atlas detector

Cherston, Juliana, et al. "Sonification platform for interaction with real-time particle collision data from the atlas detector." Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2016.

Academic Paper, March 2018
in Responsive Environments
#music
Post Research

Next Machover opera: “Schoenberg in Hollywood”

The Boston Lyric Opera just announced the commission for Tod Machover’s next opera, called Schoenberg in Hollywood. The premiere will be ...

Jan. 18, 2017
in Opera of the Future
#music
Article Research

Making Music in Space

Nicole L'Huillier speaks at Sónar+D

via Sónar+D · July 31, 2018
in Opera of the Future · Space Exploration Initiative
#music #space
Article Research

The Telemetron is a post-Earth musical instrument designed for zero gravity

The Telemetron generates musical compositions using gyroscopic “chimes.”

via Motherboard · July 6, 2018
in Opera of the Future · Space Exploration Initiative
#music #space
Project Research

The Telemetron

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and durin...

in Space Exploration Initiative · Opera of the Future
Nicole L'Huillier · Sands Fish +1 more
#design #art #music +2 more
Research
Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative

#banking and finance #cryptocurrency #economy +8 more
Post Research

10+ years of Human 2.0

Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.

May 9, 2018
in Social Machines · Affective Computing · Opera of the Future +3 more
#robotics #architecture #health +4 more
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Article Research

Breaking Forms’ bubbly space pop will lift you to a galaxy far far away

Breaking Forms is the literal and creative marriage of Juan Necochea and Nicole L’Huillier.

via Remezcla · Feb. 1, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music
Article Research

Grad Life: How to make almost anything better

How to Make (almost) Anything is a community as much as it is a class.

via Slice of MIT · Feb. 26, 2018
in Object-Based Media
#music #makers
Center for Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman
#robotics #design #computer vision +39 more
Article Research

Q&A: Composer Tod Machover presents “Philadelphia Voices”

Ambitious new piece in his “City Symphony” series features the birthplace of American democracy.

via MIT News · April 9, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music
Project Research

BrainBeat: Breath-Based Music Therapy

Can we sonfiy calming breathing and passively influence a state of calm?Deep breathing has been scientifically proven to affect the heart...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Grace Leslie +1 more
#human-machine interaction #music #affective computing
Article Research

How a Philly cheesesteak goes from the grill to Carnegie Hall

“Philadelphia Voices” is the latest in a series of Machover symphonies inspired by cities.

via The New York Times · April 9, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music
Article Research

Orchestra’s new crowdsourced choral work features ‘Philadelphia Voices’

This week, the Philadelphia Orchestra premieres a new musical composition about its home city, by the city — in a way.

via WHYY · April 6, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music
Post Research

Giving Voice to Philadelphians

Tod Machover shares his insights into the creation and community of "Philadelphia Voices."

March 27, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#music
Article Research

Mummers and sizzling Philly cheesesteaks get their Philadelphia Orchestra moment

Suffering for art took on frigid new meaning for composer Tod Machover while creating his new symphony for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

via Philadelphia Inquirer · March 30, 2018
in Opera of the Future
#art #crowdsourcing #music
Project Research

Modulating Peripheral and Cortical Arousal Using a Musical Motor Response Task

We are conducting EEG studies to identify the musical features and musical interaction patterns that universally impact measures of arous...

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Grace Leslie
#human-machine interaction #music #affective computing
Archived
Research
Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.

#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

FabricKeyboard

Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #fashion #music +2 more
Article Research

Boulez’s shocker from midcentury, and the waves it made

Mahler once quipped that “tradition” often represents nothing more than lazy, outdated habits of mind. In the postwar years, the composer...

via Boston Globe · Nov. 16, 2017
in Opera of the Future
#music
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 collaborat...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Akito Oshiro van Troyer +7 more
#design #art #crowdsourcing +3 more
Article Research

New app to weave Philadelphia sounds into a symphony

This app allows Philadelphia users to make recordings and submit them for the City Symphonies project.

via Newsworks · May 6, 2017
in Opera of the Future
#crowdsourcing #music
Project Research

Sonic Murals

Giving voice and information to objects and spaces around usObjects in our lives are usually either digital or not; mostly a wall is just...

in Opera of the Future
Alexandra Rieger
#music #sensors
Article Research

Jacob Collier isn’t the only wizard behind his one-man show

Jacob Collier calls from Chile, where he’s in the middle of a South American tour. He’s a long way from the London bedroom where he got h...

via Boston Globe · Sept. 1, 2017
in Opera of the Future
#music
Article Research

Imagination off the charts

New documentary chronicles Jacob Collier's collaborations at MIT.

via MIT News · Sept. 6, 2017
in Opera of the Future
#music
Article Research

Robot opera & how tech affects your love life

via Sky News | Swipe · June 22, 2017
in Opera of the Future
#robotics #music
Article Research

FabricKeyboard turns textile into a musical instrument

FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling, and stretching.

via FastCo.Design · June 14, 2017
in Responsive Environments
#music #sensors #interfaces
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.

Academic Paper, May 2017
in Responsive Environments
#design #music #sensors +1 more
Article Research

FabricKeyboard, la tastiera di tessuto del MIT

È un’interfaccia collegabile a computer e sintetizzatori, è responsive come un pad e suonabile quanto una primordiale tastiera.

via Wired Italia · June 26, 2017
in Responsive Environments
#design #fashion #music +2 more
Article Research

MIT researchers turned a strip of fabric into a high-tech musical instrument

Textile in G Major

via Quartz · June 19, 2017
in Responsive Environments
#design #music #sensors +1 more
Article Research

MIT's Experimental Keyboard Is Unlike Any Instrument You've Seen (Or Heard)

In a new project from MIT Media Lab, the FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling and stretching.

via Fast Co.Design · June 14, 2017
in Responsive Environments
#design #fashion #music +2 more
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