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Spaces That Perform Themselves

Update: A trigger system has been implemented to enable users to play the cube in real time and explore interactive ways to compose space...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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FabricKeyboard

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

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

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

Death and the Powers: Global Interactive Simulcast
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Fensadense

Fensadense is a new work for 10-piece ensemble composed by Tod Machover, commissioned for the Lucerne Festival in summer 2015. The projec...
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Death and the Powers: Redefining Opera

Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the ...
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…but not simpler…

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

ImmerSound is a virtual reality experience wherein one can compose music by drawing in 3D.The result of the composition is a sculpted sou...
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Disembodied Performance

Early in the opera "Death and the Powers," the main character, Simon Powers, is subsumed into a technological environment of his own crea...
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Open Music Initiative

When a piece of work is created or performed, the digital rights to that piece are oftentimes complex and spread across many different or...
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Quantizer: Sonification Platform for High-Energy Physics Data

Inspired by previous work in the field of sonification, we are building a data-driven composition platform that will enable users to map ...
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Music Visualization via Musical Information Retrieval

In a study of human perception of music in relation to different representations of video graphics, this project explores the automatic s...
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Hyperinstruments

The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic perfor...
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An EEG and Motion-Capture Based Expressive Music Interface for Affective Neurofeedback

This project examines how the expression granted by new musical interfaces can be harnessed to create positive changes in health and well...