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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...

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

Fensadense

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

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Benjamin Bloomberg +1 more
#design #art #music +1 more
Project Research

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 ...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Akito Oshiro van Troyer +4 more
#robotics #music
Project Research

…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...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#robotics #music #performance
Project Research

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...

#music
Project Research

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...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Elena Jessop +1 more
#music #sensors #performance
Project Research

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...

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
David Ramsay · Marko Ahtisaari +1 more
#music #blockchain #performance
Project Research

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...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Thomas Sanchez Lengeling
#data #music #perception
Project Research

Hyperinstruments

The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic perfor...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Rebecca Kleinberger +1 more
#music #sensors #performance
Project Research

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...

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

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