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Developed in collaboration with dancer Loni Landon, Tapis Magique is a pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet.
MIT EECS student and Mitchell Scholar hopes to play music in Dublin while working on his MS in intelligent systems.
Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.
The MIT spinout has been releasing iconic video games for more than 25 years.
Discussion at MIT explores ways the music industry can help in the battle to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Xiao Xiao, an alum and research affiliate of the Tangible Media group, recognized for her project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin
Opera of the Future alum Rébecca Kleinberger discusses the human voice—how our voices affect our identities, how we hear ourselves, etc.
Pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet generates 3D sensor data based on body gestures, drives an immersive sonic environment
Image2Reverb: Cross-Modal Reverb Impulse Response Synthesis. Nikhil Singh, Jeff Mentch, Jerry Ng, Matthew Beveridge, Iddo Drori; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 286-295
AZoM talks to Ozgun Kilic Afsar, a visiting doctoral student in the Tangible Media group, about her work on the OmniFiber project.
Alum Charles Holbrow talks about his work and shares his views on the past, present, and future of music and technology.
Robotic textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery changes
The superpose installation mediates continuously changing wave phenomena within a space that are visible, audible, and react to the presenc…
Gravity Proof is a performance and mission to prepare and cook bread in space. Inspired by ancient recipes and archaeological bread re…
Professor Ijeoma, spoke with Evan Moffitt from Frieze about his recent group exhibition at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha.
Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously e…
Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the th…
Peter Alexander Torpey and Elena Naomi Jessop. 2009. Disembodied performance. CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3685–3690. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520555
There is a subtle air of complicity amongst the music-loving audience.
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.
Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a m…
Explore five new releases from the Kronos Quartet’s Fifty for the Future collection, including Tod Machover’s GAMMIFIED
Gammified includes stereo electronics that play continuously throughout the piece, with the start of each of the five tracks marked in score
Electrical engineer William Oliver develops technology to enable reliable quantum computing at scale.
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of info…
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
When contemplating the future of life in space, we dream not only of rockets and off-world societies, but also of art, of leisure, and freq…
As we move towards an increasingly IoT-enabled ecosystem, we find that it is easier than ever before to capture vast amounts of audio data.…
Drawing inspiration from the notion of cognitive incongruence associated with Stroop's famous experiment, from musical principles, and from…
When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at f…
LeakyPhones is a public/private headset that was designed to encourage face-to-face interactions, curiosity, and healthier s…
PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for interaction based on …
Joe Paradiso shares his experience running the Responsive Environments group, teaching classes, among other things during the Covid-19 era.
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…
Homes and offices are being filled with sensor networks to answer specific queries and solve pre-determined problems, but no comprehensive …
Sound and space are fundamentally intertwined, at both a physical and perceptual level. Sound radiates from vibrating materials, filling …
The new LEGO Papert Fellows will spend one week at LEGO headquarters in Denmark to share ideas and collaborate on projects.
Here's my take on the future of textiles, as well as the connection between research and manufacturing.
KnittedKeyboard at ETH Rethinking Creativity Pavilion
By Tod MachoverFor the past five years or so, I’ve been working on some wild and unusual operas (the last one featured robots—or “Operabots…
Director's fellow Christine Sun Kim expresses her pride and frustration at signing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl.
Kim explains why she accepted the opportunity to perform during one of America’s most-watched events and what it means to the Deaf community
He built one of the largest modular synthesizers in the world: Joe Paradiso is in the new episode of our podcast.
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 …
A previous collaboration between Su and Star, Seasons (季节), also received an Honorable Mention for Best Student Game at the 2019 IGF.
SuperMe features superheroes designed by Chicago Public School students
Joe Paradiso talks about making music, collaborating with students (and with the internet), and his massive modular synthesizer.
Hairstyles, musical instruments and gardening all change in zero gravity, scientist Sands Fish says.
“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" combines the work of the Lab's Synthetic Characters group, Merce Cunningham, and digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar. A …
Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar collaborated on Loops, an exploration of Merce Cunningham's life and work.
Advancing Wellbeing
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
Opera of the Future head Tod Machover talks to Korea JoongAng Daily about “Symphony for the Koreas.”
Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island
The advent of streaming has changed our relationship to music, but where is it taking us? What's the logical conclusion?
Tod Machover and Charles Holbrow discuss how they're building the tools and platforms for a culture of living music
Exploring robotic sound generation mixed with human movements on the guitar. Guitar Machine II is a robotic guitar that responds to human g…
We often imagine a future world filled with robots and artificial intelligence agents, where humans share their civilization with sentient…
Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…
This collection of Tod Machover’s music focuses on chamber and orchestral music composed during the last decade, both with and without elec…