David Friend grew up in New York and made his first oscillator using a dual-triode vacuum tube at about age 8. Throughout his teens he built many more, especially after he could get his hands on transistors. At Yale, Friend double-majored in engineering and music composition and designed and built most of the Yale Electronic Music studio as a bursary job. While he was in grad school at Princeton, he got a call from the best analog designer he's ever met named Alan R. Pearlman who wanted to start a company to make synthesizers.
Past Talks and Colloquia
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Mar 11 13 1:00pm - 2:30pm
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Speaker:
David Friend Host/Chair:
Joseph A. Paradiso
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Mar 09 13 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Speaker:
Tod Machover TSO Music Director Peter Oundjian leads the world première of A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City on March 9 at 8:00pm. In accompaniment to the world première, the CN Tower will feature a customized light show which is synchronized to the music. |
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Mar 02 13 7:30pm - Mar 09 13 10:00pm
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Speaker:
Tod Machover
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Tod Machover is curating the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's New Creations Festival. There are a host of events between March 2 and 9, including talks and workshops, and performances of Machover's orchestra and electronics works. |
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Feb 26 13 7:00pm - Mar 03 13 12:00am
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Speaker:
Tod Machover Some of the most distinguished thought leaders in the computing field share their views on technology and how it shapes our modern world. Meet musician and inventor Tod Machover, the creator of technologies behind "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band." Computer History Museum's John Hollar speaks to the influential composer, whose work has been performed internationally, about the future of digital music and his research as the professor of music and media at MIT Media Lab, where he directs the Opera of the Future group. The show will be broadcast six times (all times are PT) |
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Feb 26 13 3:00pm - 5:00pm
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Speaker:
Cory Doctorow We live in a world made of networked computers, but we regulate them like they were toys, phones, entertainment devices. We get it wrong—really, really wrong—and it's only going to get worse. Without substantive reform to technology regulation, we face the possibility of remaking the most hopeful force for liberation into the most brutal form of control. |
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Feb 01 13 3:00pm - 5:00pm
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This talk is open to the public. A presentation of WeMadeThis.Es featuring North American and Spanish digital artists along with Héctor Ayuso, author and director of OFFF festival. How is design created today? Join leading designers from Spain, the US, and abroad as they talk about their work and the state of graphic design in today's global, connected design world. |
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Jan 21 13 9:00am - Jan 31 13 5:00pm
MIT Media Lab
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Jan 19 13 9:30am - 3:00pm
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Day Two: Saturday, January 19, 2013
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Jan 10 13 2:00pm - 3:30pm
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 Speaker:
Baratunde Thurston Host/Chair:
Joi Ito
Join us on Twitter: #MLTalks |
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Dec 21 12 9:00am - Apr 11 14 3:00pm
MIT Media Lab, E14 Lobby
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From lightweight, shared, electric vehicles that fold, to artificial limbs that not only emulate—but improve upon—biological gaits, the Media Lab is transforming mobility for the 21st century. |
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