Event

Music | MACHINES: 50 Years of Music and Technology at MIT

LocationE14-6th Floor DescriptionMusic | MACHINES will be a full day and evening experience at MIT’s new Media Lab Complex celebrating the …

Saturday
February 5, 2011
Publication

Making Musical Magic Live: Inventing modern production technology for human-centric music performance

Making Musical Magic Live : Inventing Modern Production Technology for Human-Centric Music Performance. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/129893.

Publication

Music and Technology in Death and the Powers

Jessop, E., Torpey, P., Bloomberg, B. NIME’11, 30 May–1 June 2011, Oslo, Norway

Article

Epi/20: Fluid Music | Mutating Music with MIT Media Lab’s Charles Holbrow

Alum Charles Holbrow talks about his work and shares his views on the past, present, and future of music and technology.

Video

Music | Machines: Opera, Collaboration, and (Sometimes) Serendipity

Music | Machines - Professor Tod Machover in conversation with the team from Death and the Powers.

Publication

World Music Technology: Culturally Sensitive Strategies for Automatic Music Prediction

Sarkar, M. "World Music Technology: Culturally Sensitive Strategies for Automatic Music Prediction"

Event

Music and Mind LIVE #15 | Mind Games: New Tech for Music and Health

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover, alum Grace Leslie, and Dr. Adam Gazzaley join Renée Fleming for Music and Mind Live.

Video

Mihir Sarkar Dissertation Defense: World Music Technology; Culturally Sensitive Strategies for Music Prediction

Music has been shown to be an essential part of the human experience---every known society engages in music. However, as universal as it ma…

July 17, 2012
Project

Technology and Creative Music Education

Musical interaction occurs through one of three modalities: performing, listening, or composing. This project investigates new ways in whic…

Post

Earthrise, 50 years later

Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative

Group

Music, Mind and Machine

The Music, Mind and Machine group is working towards bridging the gap between the current generation of audio technologies and those that w…

Event

Tod Machover @ Cornell's Music: Cognition, Technology, Society

LocationCornell University, Ithaca NY Description

Friday
May 11, 2012
Post

Jamming to Knitting, Music to Machines: Bringing interdisciplinary research to the manufacturing ecosystem

Here's my take on the future of textiles, as well as the connection between research and manufacturing.

Post

SEI Exhibition at Ars Electronica 2019: 50 Years After the Moon

Ars Electronica FestivalSeptember 5-9, 2019 at POSTCITY, Linz, Austria 50 years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, we are seeing …

Post

Congratulations to Andy Lippman on being inducted into MIT's 50-Year Achievers

The MIT Quarter Century Club recognized Andrew Lippman, head of the Media Lab's Viral Communications group, as a 50-Year Achiever in 2022.

Article

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.

Event

Hatched in Zürich and Honed at MIT: A sonic tour through time and technology featuring the Paradiso synthesizer

Prof. Joseph Paradiso gave a talk on his synthesizer rig at the Swiss Museum and Centre for Electronic Music Instruments. Watch the video!

Article

A musical instrument for astronauts and other news

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

Article

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.

Article

Music Industry and Technology Leaders Join Leading Academic Institutions to Launch Open Music Initiative to Resolve Longstanding Media Rights Issues

Event

50 years of computer science at the JKU: Keynote by Joseph Paradiso

How We Will Connect To Our Networked Future in a Post-IoT World

Friday
November 8, 2019
4:30pm ET
Event

Music + Invention Concert and Lecture

Professor Tod Machover curates and presents this event to explore the multi-faceted relationship between invention and music.

Friday
March 8, 2024
7:30pm ET
Publication

Composing for Hyperbow: A Collaboration Between MIT and the Royal Academy of Music.

Young, D., Nunn, P., Vassiliev, A.

Post

10+ years of Human 2.0

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

Article

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.”

Publication

Score Instruments: A New Paradigm of Musical Instruments to Guide Musical Wonderers

van Troyer, A. "Score Instruments: A New Paradigm of Musical Instruments to Guide Musical Wonderers"

Publication

The Brain Opera Technology: New Instruments and Gestural Sensors for Musical Interaction and Performancevisit their online site

Joseph A. Paradiso

Article

Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera

The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.

Article

HubWeek 2019 celebrates five years of connecting MIT, Boston, and the world

Greater Boston’s annual festival of ideas finds new avenues for celebrating and connecting innovators.

Article

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

Textile in G Major

Event

Machover and Minsky: Making Music in the Dome

LocationHayden Planetarium Space Theater, AMNH, NYC Description

Thursday
June 3, 2010
Publication

Hypercompression: Stochastic Musical Processing

Holbrow, C. "HYPERCOMPRESSION: Stochastic Musical Processing"

Article

Nurturing the creation of music through the blockchain

Blockchain technology could help to revolutionize how artists get paid.

Article

Music of the (data) spheres

A new MIT project taps into particle collisions to generate music and forge harmony between science and art.

Publication

Shaping minds musically

Machover, T.

Publication

Autism, New Music Technologies and Cognition

Boulanger, A. "Autism, New Music Technologies and Cognition"

Post

Max Addae wins first place in the 2024 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

Addae received the award for VocalCords, which was developed as part of his master's thesis at the Media Lab.

Event

Music of Reality: Rising Seas and the Venice Problem

Music of Reality presents an interdisciplinary concert inspired by the research of Paola Rizzoli, Professor of Physical Oceanography at MIT…

Publication

Optical Tracking for Music and Dance Performance

Joseph A. Paradiso, Flavia Sparacino

Project

Exertion Music

Are electronic instruments that generate their own power better than those that don't? Can acoustic and electronic musical instruments be …

Publication

Music, Mind, and Mouth: Exploring the Interaction Between Music and Flavor Perception

Wang, Q. "Music, Mind, and Mouth: Exploring the Interaction Between Music and Flavor Perception"

Publication

Creating Music by Listening

Jehan, T. "Creating Music by Listening"

Project

Interactive Music-Learning Machine

Modern music education program for children emphasizes the importance of creating a rich music environment in which children become involve…

Article

Mihir Sarkar: 10 Years

Alum Mihir Sarkar looks back at the 10 years since his dissertation defense, and reflects on both the joys and the challenges of that time.

Article

Everything is music to instrument inventor Akito van Troyer’s ears

Alum Akito van Troyer, who's now an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, talks about finding the music in everyday objects.

Publication

The Musical Fireflies – Learning About Mathematical Patterns in Music Through Expression and Play.

Weinberg, G., Lackner, T., Jay, J.

Publication

Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface

Solis, H. "Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface"

Publication

Engineering Music to Slow Breathing and Invite Relaxed Physiology

Leslie, G.*, Ghandeharioun, A.*, Zhou, D., & Picard, R. W. (2019, September). Engineering Music to Slow Breathing and Invite Relaxed Physiology. In 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.

Publication

Learning Word Meanings and Descriptive Parameter Spaces from Music

Brian Whitman, Deb Roy, Barry Vercoe

Event

New Music Marathon

LocationKresge Auditorium, MIT DescriptionNew Music Marathon:http://arts.mit.edu/fast/new-music-marathon/

Friday — Saturday
April 15, 2011 —
April 16, 2011
Publication

Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Anxiety Disorders and Well-Being

Lecamwasam, K.H.M. (2023). Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Anxiety Disorders and Well-Being. Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab.

Project

Automated Analysis of Musical Structure for Music Segmentation

This project examines the psycho-acoustic bases of the perception of musical structure by human listeners. Computational models will be bui…

Event

Apollo 50+50: Inventing the Future

MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics professors Paulo Lozano, Danielle Wood, Richard Binzel, and Sara Seager are interviewed by Prof. Dava Newma

Wednesday
March 13, 2019
Video

Seymour Papert on music and learning

March 22, 2018
Post

Xiao Xiao wins second place in the 2022 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

For the project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin. Congratulations!

Publication

Investigating the Physiological and Psychological Effect of an Interactive Musical Interface for Stress and Anxiety Reduction

Lecamwasam, K., Gutierrez Arango, S., Singh, N., Elhaouij, N., Addae, M., & Picard, R. (2023, April). Investigating the Physiological and Psychological Effect of an Interactive Musical Interface for Stress and Anxiety Reduction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-9).

Event

Tod Machover @ Penn Humanities Forum: Music, Mastery, and Memory

Description

Wednesday
December 8, 2010