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Sonic Murals

Giving voice and information to objects and spaces around us.Objects in our lives are usually either digital or not; mostly a wall is just …
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Evergreen Blues receives Honorable Mention for Best Student Game @ 2020 Independent Games Festival

A previous collaboration between Su and Star, Seasons (季节), also received an Honorable Mention for Best Student Game at the 2019 IGF.
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Chance the Rapper enlists Chicago students to code "I Love You So Much" video game

SuperMe features superheroes designed by Chicago Public School students
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Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative

Su, D. (2019). Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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AMAI: Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement

Su, D., Picard, R., Liu, Y. "AMAI: Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement." Proceedings of the 44th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Daegu, Korea, August 2018.
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How that giant homemade modular synth wound up at MIT

Joe Paradiso talks about making music, collaborating with students (and with the internet), and his massive modular synthesizer.
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Space pianos and upside-down shoes: innovations for life in space

Hairstyles, musical instruments and gardening all change in zero gravity, scientist Sands Fish says.
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Schoenberg in Hollywood: A new opera by Tod Machover

“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…
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Loops

"Loops" combines the work of the Lab's Synthetic Characters group, Merce Cunningham, and digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar. A …
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Merce Cunningham lives on in motion capture experience at Jacob's Pillow

Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar collaborated on Loops, an exploration of Merce Cunningham's life and work.
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
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Innovative composer hopes to unify the Koreas: Through his work, Tod Machover has shown the power of music, technology

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover talks to Korea JoongAng Daily about “Symphony for the Koreas.”
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Symphony for the Koreas

Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…
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Peace workshop, concert connect experts, youth on Jeju Island

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island
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Hello, brave new world!

The advent of streaming has changed our relationship to music, but where is it taking us? What's the logical conclusion?
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Towards New Musics: What the future holds for sound creativity

Tod Machover and Charles Holbrow discuss how they're building the tools and platforms for a culture of living music
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Evolving Media on the Internet

Songs released on music streaming services are static, never changing after their initial release. Evolving Media proposes a content p…
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Guitar Machine II

Exploring robotic sound generation mixed with human movements on the guitar. Guitar Machine II is a robotic guitar that responds to human g…
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Guitar Machine

​We often imagine a future world filled with robots and artificial intelligence agents, where humans share their civilization with sentient…
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T-VOKS: The singing and speaking theremin

Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
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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 collaboratio…
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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 elec…
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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.
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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 of …
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How we’ll forget John Lennon

César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.
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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.
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A musical instrument for astronauts and other news

BBC Click's Nick Kwek looks at some of the best technology stories of the week.
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Schoenberg in Hollywood in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on Tod Machover's newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood.
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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.
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Style and Idea: Schoenberg and the Media Lab

As an intellect and creator, Schoenberg would have fit right into the Lab.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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 Muriel …
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Powers Live

Death and the Powers: Global Interactive Simulcast
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The SciFi Audio Workstation

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

We present VisualSoundtrack, a system designed as a tool for soundtrack composers to experiment with original musical content in differin…
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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 c…
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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 collisio…
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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.
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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 in…
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Making Music in Space

Nicole L'Huillier speaks at Sónar+D
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The Telemetron is a post-Earth musical instrument designed for zero gravity

The Telemetron generates musical compositions using gyroscopic “chimes.”
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10+ years of Human 2.0

Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.
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
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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.
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Grad Life: How to make almost anything better

How to Make (almost) Anything is a community as much as it is a class.
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Q&A: Composer Tod Machover presents “Philadelphia Voices”

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

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

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
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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, …
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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.
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Tod Machover: Operas 1987-2014

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

New documentary chronicles Jacob Collier's collaborations at MIT.
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FabricKeyboard turns textile into a musical instrument

FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling, and stretching.
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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.
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MIT researchers turned a strip of fabric into a high-tech musical instrument

Textile in G Major
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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.
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Nurturing the creation of music through the blockchain

Blockchain technology could help to revolutionize how artists get paid.
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Kinephone: Exploring the acoustic musical potential of an actuated pin-based shape display

This paper explores how an actuated pin-based shape display may serve as a platform on which to build musical instruments and controllers. …
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